- Network: CBS
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 16, 2011
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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior is a solid addition to your evening lineup.
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[Forest Whitaker as Sam Cooper is] an arresting, oblique performance, and it works well amid all the procedural muck. [21 Feb 2011, p.42]
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We think if you are a fan of this franchise, then "Suspect Behavior" should please you.
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Competent spinoff, but the formula tends to wear like a straitjacket on Whitaker.
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If you don't care for Criminal Minds, Whitaker, Garofalo and company probably aren't going to be enough of a reason for you to tune in. Their characters may get to be interesting from time to time, but the crime's always going to be the main focus.
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[Whitaker's] charisma gives Suspect a strong center and his line delivery is consistently interesting. If the original 'Minds' is one of your favorite shows, there's no reason not to give this drama a shot.
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The story reflects how badly these procedurals have degraded over the years, forced to come up with increasingly more over-the-top motives for murder. If cookie-cutter cruelty is your nightcap, this show will send you well off to sleep.
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You might be thankful that Sam has explained his job, with so many un-blocked metaphors, if you've never seen a show like Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior before. But because you've seen too many shows like this and too many teams like his, you're unimpressed. You're already too many steps ahead.
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It's all pretty average and watchable largely because of the cast.
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Suspect Behavior is not boring, but it is familiar.
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The premiere benefits from the bad guy being played by Raphael Sbarge, a fine actor. But largely it's the usual Minds: a sadistic, terrorized-prey procedural. [18 Feb 2011, p.72]
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Less successful in the spinoff is what comes in between--the texture and character parts, the scripts heavy with pronouncements of the obvious and with horror plots whose strained premises are so elaborate they undercut the impact of all the gore and terror.
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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior has the same rapid pace of the original, a narrative tool that both amps up the action and keeps the viewer from dwelling too much on the gargantuan leaps of imagination that pass for police work. It also works against the show, preventing it from fully making the insightful points it does have.
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It's business as usual on Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, an uninspired spin-off of the undistinguished (except in its degree of gruesomeness) long-running hit.
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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, a by-the-numbers extension of another Eye network franchise.
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Sadly, the game on CM:SB feels too often like we've seen it before and we know what's coming.
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As anyone who has used an old photocopy machine knows, a copy of a copy of a copy is rarely as good as the original. Suspect Behavior comes across as a show in search of a purpose beyond the obvious brand extension.
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I will only say that Suspect Behavior is basically the same show, but other than Whitaker, it's a much less interesting cast and collection of characters, with Garofalo particularly bad.
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OK, not every TV procedural is dumb, but Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior? Dumb is too smart a word.
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Suspect Behavior is in every way a grind, with even the usually very capable Whitaker looking lost at sea with his halting, stumbling, keep-pausing-for-effect portrayal of crime team head Sam "Coop" Cooper.
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That Suspect is a spinoff of Criminal Minds, network TV's worst series, is just the dung icing on the dirt cake.
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The sooner this kind of programming goes down the drain, the sooner we'll have a chance to see more original, entertaining, and far less disgusting series, like Blue Bloods and The Defenders.
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It is uniquely stupid, profoundly stupid, an ecstatic nirvana of stupidity, a stupidity that defies all previous boundaries of time and space.
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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior is so silly, cynical and inept that its overqualified cast can't even save it--though Whitaker and Schiff refuse to admit defeat.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 27
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Mixed: 12 out of 27
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Negative: 9 out of 27
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