Wheels Up in Forty: Recent Episodes
Wheels Up in Forty
This week, we looked at the series as a whole with some help from special guest and friend of the show Isabel.
This week, we watched the final episodes of season 15, episodes 8, 9, and 10. Topics include: plane secrets, Garcia is not anyone's primary care physician, we love Roberta, spirit guide Strauss, Criminal Minds needs an increased wig budget.
This week, we watched episodes 6 and 7 of season 15. Topics include: Garcia has ships, skate date, too much coffee, stuffed animal goat demons, long-distance relationships.
This week we watched episode 5 of season 15. Topics include: we don't know anything about guns, deciding random side characters are gay, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, statistics about parenting and sleep.
This week, we watched episode 4 of season 15. Topics include: two bottles of wine and eight donuts, stress dreams, Paul F. Tompkins has fun, Reid gets bullied by a child.
This week we watched episode 3 of season 15. Topics include: JJ/Reid gets put to bed (thank goodness), the boundaries of grave robbing, Thai board games, don't step on bouquets.
This week, we watched episodes 1 and 2 of season 15, the season premiere. Topics include: quality knitwear, Reid can't stop crying, conwomen we love, queer content but not the kind we were hoping for.
This week, we watched episodes 7, 8, and 9 of season 11. Topics include: Hotchcia lives in Alex's heart, stop quoting Coco Chanel, multilevel marketing for drugs, pointless gore.
This week, we watched episodes 4, 5, and 6 of season 11. Topics include: shipping minor background characters with each other, multiple Las Vegases, fake Banksy, sassy teenagers.
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This week, we talk about episodes 1 and 2 (we did watch 3, but it's a long story, listen to find out) of season 11. Topics include: monochromatic old ladies, clown makeup, Reid has pet fish, the dangers of going cheap on a hitman.
This week, we talk to two very special guests about their Criminal minds faves and least faves. Topics include: Alex pointedly doesn't talk about one of her OTPs, intense season 2 episodes, unsub origin stories.
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This week, we finished season 10 with its last two episodes. Topics include: stress saltines, housing law in various states and provinces, Garcia's moral compass, missed characterization opportunities.
Shout out to Dorian, who did the editing this week as Alex's computer was being weird.
Welcome to episode 100! This week we watched episodes 19, 20, and 21 of season 10. Topics include: ill-fated spinoffs, Dutch gestures, some Agatha Christie nonsense, Hotch trips balls.
This week, we watched episodes 16, 17, and 18 of season 10. Topics include: don't pierce your own belly button, confused social commentary, 50 Shades of Grey discourse, Reid speaks Yoruba for some reason.
This week, we watched episodes 13, 14, and 15 of season 10. Topics include: murder scrapbooking, ice cream taste tests, Morgan defuses a bomb, the ethics of enlisting children in crimefighting.
This week, we watched episodes 10, 11, and 12 of season 10. Topics include: Alex no longer understands wordplay, JJ has trauma, Hotch is Rossi's wingman, how many boats are on Lake Mead, danger at the DMV.
This week, we watched episodes 7, 8, and 9 of season 10. Topics include: a trip to the inconvenience store, friendly kidnapping, surprise wigs, Rossi doesn't know what Comic Con is, selfies will get you killed.
This week, we watched episodes 4, 5, and 6 of season 10. Topics include: we love Madame Bouvier, Kate loves police brutality, Reid is Prince Charming, JJ overreacts.
This week, we started off season 10 with episodes 1, 2, and 3. Topics include: Alex is really bad at geography, Reid tries to relate, the dawn of Kate, Morgan and Garcia are fighting.
This week is a combo episode! In the first half, we talk about season 9 and Alex Blake overall as a character. Topics include: a rebranding exercise, stats with Dorian, unloved short-run characters.
In the second half, Alex talks to her mom about Criminal Minds and crime procedurals more broadly, and her mom has a truly shocking least favorite character.
This week, we finish up season 9 with episodes 22, 23, and 24. Topics include: horrible puns with Dorian, Blake's farewell arc, Reid gets shot for jello, people named Ethan.
This week, we watched episodes 19, 20, and 21 of season 9. Topics include: meme cereal, channeling aliens, women roasting Morgan, Blake joins the Work-Related Trauma Club, frat parties.
This week, we watched episodes 16, 17, and 18 of season 9. Topics include: sexy rabies, JJ's mom judgment, getting spoiled by the wiki, hobo code.
This week, we watched episodes 13, 14, and 15 of season 9. Topics include: Tahmoh Penikett fun facts, Rossi is one nosy asshole, Reid speaks Korean, JJ/Prentiss is real, couples therapy for murderers.
This week, we return from hiatus and watch episodes 10, 11, and 12 of season 9. Topics include: flarpy blunderguff, goth Garcia, Blake is weirdly chill about getting shot, creepy phone calls.
This week, we watched episodes 7, 8, and 9 of season 9. Topics include: we love Reid loves babies, evil scrapbooking, getting Morganed, heterosexual canoodling, a very serious (no, for real though) Rossi conversation.
This week, we watched episodes 4, 5, and 6 of season 9. Topics include: Alex's Hotch/Garcia problem, asides on how Mormon missions work, bad fake graffiti, cases the BAU shouldn't be on.
This week, we start off season 9 with episodes 1, 2, and 3. Topics include: Dorian's law of homages, praying mantises, sniper tactics, Alex does a bad pun, evil(er) twins.
This week we are joined by friend of the show Jess to talk Criminal Minds in all its glory. Topics include: being the world's lone Gideon stan, send us your fanfic, no more getting jossed, the only known case of a man being fridged.
This week we finish up season 8 with episodes 22, 23, and 24. Topics include: stats with Dorian, a fridging occurs, Reid gives relationship advice, the return of Hotch's brother, Mark Hamill is a supervillain.
This week we watched episodes 19, 20, and 21 of season 8. Topics include: Dorian explains Bluebeard to Alex, Rossi tells unhelpful anecdotes, we trust the people who run the Criminal Minds fan wiki above all, gay witnesses, JJ and Morgan are not qualified to administer EMDR.
This week, we watched episodes 16, 17, and 18 of season 8. Topics include: taking pills dry, Morgan Feels, cranky local cops, Garcia's ukulele lessons, poor decisions with Reid.
This week we watched episodes 13, 14, and 15 of season 8. Topics include: who's the horniest team member, saucy confessions with . Dorian, particularly egregious Hollywood mental illness, polite euphemisms for stabbing locations.
This week, we watched episodes 10, 11, and 12 of season 8. Topics include: BYOB (bring your own bugs), lullaby versions of Pixies songs, spicy takes with Dorian, Reid uses his sexuality as a weapon.
This week, we watched episodes 7, 8, and 9 of season 8. Topics include: evil synesthesia, Pearl Bailey fun facts, video games that sound like more trouble than they're worth, getting the chyron right.
This week we are joined by Grace and Abby from Tortall Recall, a Tamora Pierce reading and recap podcast. Topics include: bad science explained poorly, OT3s, unsub origin stories, questionable linguistics.
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This week, we finish up season 14 with episodes 13, 14, and 15. Topics include: truth or dare and what demographics play it, what religious studies professors do and don't do, Rossi's wedding, meaningful gazes, con moms.
In our longest episode yet, we watch episodes 4, 5, and 6 of season 8. Topics include: Alex's gayest fanfic dreams, justice for Jordan Todd, drawing the line at animal cruelty, Jose the random teenager is the real MVP.
This week, we watch episodes 1, 2, and 3 of season 8. Topics include: Reid and Blake conspiracy theories, Criminal Minds does a not great job on disability (again), hackneyed attempts at social commentary, an unsub gets away.
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This week, we catch up on season 14 with episodes 10, 11, and 12. Topics include: the impending end of the show, monochromatic outfits, evil ASMR videos, the show continues to not do a great job with disability.
This week, Dorian's sister Isadora joins us to talk about the show. Topics include: Law & Order: SVU, unsub psychology, small vs. large ensemble casts.
This week we finished season 7 with episodes 23 and 24 and looked back on the season as a whole. Topics include: Doctor Who cosplay, dancing with Prentiss, confusing crime motives, why can't Will and JJ just get a babysitter.
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This week, we watched episodes 7, 8, and 9 of season 14. Topics include: the show tries to address social issues, why is Garcia still so mean to Alvez, Rossi deserves to be happy, Reid goes off teaching.
This week, we watched episodes 20, 21, and 22 of season 7. Topics include: bad wigs from the past, extremely bleak episodes, the vagaries of the death penalty in the United States, shoplifting Chef Boyardee.
This week, we're back in season 7 for episodes 17, 18, and 19. Topics include: witch oubliettes, making your unsub clearly evil, we love a good fake-out cold open, Morgan feels.
This week, we're back with episodes 4, 5, and 6 of season 14. Topics include: nobody on TV uses a cane correctly, Garcia has been through some shit, Matthew Gray Gubler has fun on Halloween, JJ goes home.
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This week, we start off the new season with episodes 1, 2, and 3. Topics include: worrying about Garcia, deep continuity, Reid is a peril magnet, gay unsubs, surprise mummies.
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This week, we watched episodes 14, 15, and 16 of season 7. Topics include: whether you need eggs to make pancakes, martial arts with JJ, Prentiss is a troll, really ugly ties.
This week, we watched episodes 11, 12, and 13 of season 7. Topics include: doing crime at internet cafes, Garcia's commitment to work cleavage, Prentiss has a bad day, Reid has a quarter-life crisis.
This week, we talk about episodes 8, 9, and 10 of season 7. Topics include: Garcia suddenly cares about privacy, Rossi's Italian immunity to poison ivy, spraying the Criminal Minds writers with water to keep them away from the racism.
This week, we talk about episodes 5, 6, and 7 of season 7. Topics include: Frankenbrothers, Rossi is the horniest team member, JJ vs. Will vs. Will's accent, being tactful with Reid.
A note: we mistakenly thought that September 26th was the season 14 premiere date. It does not premiere until October 3rd.
This week we watched episodes 1, (kind of 2), 3, and 4 of season 7. Topics include: Rotch and Hossi (the mirror universe Hotch and Rossi), prank wars, babies on cardigans, only knowing actors from Pacific Rim.
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This week, friend of the show Kuzu joins us to talk Criminal Minds. Topics include: Sondheim digressions, "if criminals is a bad show why ya watch dude," JJ is the glue that holds the show together, replacing unsub origin stories with episodes you would be a witness in.
Find Kuzu on Twitter or Tumblr, and read Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live on The Book Smugglers or buy it on Amazon.
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This week we finish up season 6 with episodes 23 and 24. Topics include: when hermit crabs use doll heads as a shell, pigtail antennae, being insensitive with David Rossi, the one time Seaver's overly serious delivery actually worked, Morgan Feels (TM).
This week, we watched episodes 19, 20, 21, and 22 of season 6. Topics include: shooting people underwater, Hotch and Rossi are extremely married, confusing chat interfaces, Prentiss grief, TV mental illness.
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This week we watch episodes 16, 17, and 18 of season 6. Topics include: big Prentiss feelings, the (brief) return of JJ, Dorian ship-shames Alex, the ethics of undercover work, googling people who were on Supernatural that one time.
This week, we watched episodes 13, 14, and 15 of season 6. Topics include: Seaver gets some characterization, the state flag of Montana, Prentiss lies in waiting with a gun, Rossi yells at bad dads, Taxi Driver monologues.
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This week, we watched episodes 10, 11, and 12 of season 6. Topics include: approaches to cardigans, the dawn of Ashley Seaver, disastrous crush plot arcs, spooky religions.
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This week, we watched episodes 10, 11, and 12 of season 6. Topics include: approaches to cardigans, the dawn of Ashley Seaver, disastrous crush plot arcs, spooky religions.
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This week we watched episodes 7, 8, and 9 of season 6. Topics include: structural coats, Indiana Farmers the cousin of Indiana Jones, extremely bleak episodes, Reid's technophobia, '50s makeup tutorials.
This week, we look at episodes 4, 5, and 6 of season 6. Topics include: Detroit is fine, sticking with your Halloween costume, Nebraskan law, randomly deciding someone's a swinger, the worst ways to die.
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This week, we talk about episodes 1, 2, and 3 of season 6. Topics include: our dramatic grandpa David Rossi, Tim Curry's gross teeth, saying goodbye to JJ, the questionable ethics of polygraphs.
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This week, we're joined by friend of the show Veronica to talk about her unsub origin story, shipping Prentiss with everyone, and the show's sitcom appeal.
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This week, we finish up season 5 with episodes 22 and 23. Topics include: Tim Curry's All-American Road Trip, it's hard being Garcia, stats with Dorian, Hotch attempts humor, hunting for symmetrical faces.
This week we watched episodes 19, 20, and 21 of season 5. Topics include: Hotch yells at bad dads, JJ has a thing for accents, poker with Prentiss, Reid doesn't have authorization to carry that gun.
This week, we talk about episodes 16, 17, and 18 of season 5. Topics include: the directorial vision of Matthew Gray Gubler, bad back-door pilots, when your only character notes are "British" and "smarmy," Alex's fear of rest stops.
This week we watch episodes 13, 14, and 15 of season 5. Topics include: our new band Knife Arson, clashing with your hair, when things are questionably legal even for this show, losing track of your fake identities.
This week we talk about episodes 10, 11, and 12 of season 5. Topics include: getting murdered in the suburbs, Reid's righteous anger, appropriate funeral attire, concepts that are better in theory than in practice.
This week we talk about episodes 7, 8 and 9 of season 5. Topics include: bird-headed canes, vampires, fridging, mispronouncing Bosnian town names.
This week, we finish up season 13 with episodes 21 and 22. Topics include: stats with Dorian, Alex loves conspiracy nonsense, Reid's mustache, favorites and least favorites.
This week, we watch episodes 19 and 20 of season 13. Topics include: arsenic vs. rat poison, Alex's favorite things, Garcia's casual wear, fake law firms, whose brother is gay.
This week we talk episodes 16, 17, and 18 of the current season. Topics include: how many killer clowns can one small Oklahoma town sustain, the directorial vision of Matthew Gray Gubler, Rossi's ex-wives, wrapping a plotline up quickly.
This week, we watched episodes 4, 5, and 6 of season 5. Topics include: punny episode titles, confusing riots, sunglasses, dollar store Jake Johnson.
This week we launch season 5 with episodes 1, 2, and 3. Topics include: the return of fire bop-it, knee injuries, Hotch being a human disaster, Rossi doing some genuinely weird stuff, Hollywood mental illness.
This week we talk about episodes 13, 14, and 15 of the current season, season 13. Topics include: what's going on with Reid's hair these days, whose snake staff is that, everybody hates Barnes, Prentiss is subdued by the power of friendship.
This week we are joined by special guest Madi to discuss why and how she came to watch this wonderful, terrible show.
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This week, we finish season 4 and talk about the season as a whole. Topics include: good hair on no sleep, stats with Dorian, does the team ever go to Hawaii, a finale that went from good to bad.
This week we watch episodes 23, 24, and 25 of season 4. Topics include: "it's the pigs," poorly designed wheelchairs, a middle ground between calling the cops and falsely confessing to murder to attract the attention of the FBI, an episode tailor-made for Alex's interests, playing off hacking your boyfriend's job assignment as charming.
This week, we talk about episodes 19, 21, and 22 of season four. Discussion topics include: extremely 2009 hair, the virtues of skipping episode 20, art imitating true crime, mysterious wound treatments, sinister small towns.
This week, we jump up to episodes 10, 11, and 12 of season 13. Topics include: learning about stranger danger, the perils of this show trying to address serious topics, clinical lycanthropy, pirate practices, purple blazers.
This week, we discuss episodes 13, 14, and 15 of season 4. Topics include: Rossi gets sad and hates psychics, Dorian's childhood love of Edgar Allan Poe, the modern funeral industry, Hotch bonds with another bad dad about being bad dads, JJ returns.
This week we watch episodes 10, 11, and 12 of season 4. Topics include: Dorian's knowledge of regionalisms, Alex is neither a lawyer nor a scientist, weird addiction metaphors with Hotch, Reid is once again the map man, Phoenix accuracy and unsolved mysteries.
This week we talk about episodes 7, 8, and 9 of season 4. Topics include: good abuses of federal power, how many PhDs is too many, really bad wigs, the terror of pick-up artists, which lies Hotch is okay with, the inside of Reid's mind.
This week, we talk about episodes 4, 5, and 6 of season 4. Topics include: Reid is the map man, motel horror, black velvet suits, Freud vs. Jung, dunking on Morgan, Prentiss loves gossip.
We're back this week to talk about episodes 7, 8, and 9 of season 13. Topics include: fake dating profiles, proper aquarium cleaning, the care and keeping of snakes, copyright law, confusing openings, the sneaking suspicion that this show hates ambitious women, Ross is a JFK conspiracy theorist.
This week, we talk about the first three episodes of season 4. Topics include: floating the idea of an eviler twin, the joy of euphemisms, unfortunate hairstyles, debating explosion sizes, going undercover, communicating through fried chicken containers.
This week, special guest Isabel joins us to talk about the horrors of season six, unsub origin stories, why moms love reruns of crime procedurals, sparkling garbage, and shipping Prentiss with everyone.
This week, we return to the current season to talk about episodes 4, 5, and 6. Topics include: Alex's fear of rest stops, how much stuff does Garcia's cat have, the Doomsday Clock, Morgan (briefly) returns, apocalypse-friendly occupations, Reid's hair is disastrously poofy.
This week, we finish up season 3 with episodes 19 and 20. Topics include: baby goth Prentiss, Hotch knows tarot, stats with Dorian, the nature of the self, the origins of "baby girl", Reid stands up for himself, 2004 Morgan fashion.
We're back to talk about episodes 16, 17, and 18 of season 3. Topics include: Rossi as team mom, hams, keeping secrets from profilers, country goths, a proposed temporary ban on gay unsubs, inventive ways to find bodies.
This week, we jump ahead to the present and talk about episodes 1, 2, and 3 of episode 13. Topics include: the Rossi we know and love, very important Buzzfeed quizzes, assclowns, jumping into your own grave, unjust deaths, cheesy pep talks.
This week, we watch episodes 13, 14 and 15 of season 3. Topics include: bad tropes, Hotch needs a whole day to talk to his son, Rossi shows up at your house in the middle of the night, anxiously talking until you can get away from the serial killer, a tragic lack of Pittsburgh slang, the hazards of buying a murder house.
This week, we talk about episodes 10, 11, and 12 of season 3. Topics include: statutes of limitation, traffic statistics, territorial Garcia, Hotch tries to be chill and relatable, gettin' served, slapdash witness protection procedures, trying to accept Frankie Muniz as a badass, beef jerky.
This week, we talk about episodes 7-9 of season 3. Topics include: skipping the A-plot because it's gross, the absurdity of pretending Garcia isn't hot, Rossi is a jerk this season, TV writers don't know the difference between Protestants and Catholics, thrift store mystery cardigans.
This week, we talk about episodes 4, 5, and 6 of season 3. Topics include: the dawn of Italian grandpa David Rossi, getting a bingo, Reid hearts Halloween, getting overly attached with Prentiss, unsub jedi mind games.
Timestamps:
Episode 4: 3:30
Episode 5: 29:00
Episode 6: 47:00
This week we watch the first three episodes of season 3. Topics include: goodbye to Gideon, spooky Garcia earrings, the ska bands of Michigan, tank tops as office attire, getting stuck in elevators as fanfiction premise.
Time stamps:
Ep 1: 2:45
Ep 2: 28:55
Ep 3: 55:25
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This week, we finish up season 2 with episodes 22 and 23. Topics include: Sweeney Todd references, Garcia's special date wig, Gideon's secret nature museum hideout, Criminal Minds at its most horror movie, unnecessary backstories, giving a medal to whoever decided to put "evilution" in an episode title.
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This week we watched episodes 19, 20, and 21 of season 2. Discussion topics include: the greatest scene of all time, extremely 2007 hair, Dorian questions the unsub/victim binary, Hotch is bad at displaying emotions, pierogie cravings, hunting the most dangerous game.
This week, we discuss episodes 16, 17, and 18 of season 2. Topics include: Prentiss's love of turtlenecks, Reid is even worse at people skills than normal, two bad episodes and a good one, the virtues of carving something into a wall with your dying breath, Garcia and the enigma of the tiny bun, Ethan is 100% Reid's ex.
This week we watch episodes 13, 14, and 15 of season 2. Topics include: Garcia's 2007 hair, guilty JJ, Hotch gets roasted, the domino dress, hamming it up with Frank and Gideon, questionable cinematography, child Reid flashbacks, looking up serial killers on Wikipedia.
Apologies for Dorian's audio, which might best be described as "crispy."