It’s UnSub-hunting company as usual for the BAU in the first batch of photos from Paramount+’s upcoming Criminal Minds revival.
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Officially titled Criminal Minds: Evolution, the 10-episode quasi-Season 16 finds the FBI’s elite team of criminal profilers touching up against “their greatest threat yet,” an UnSub who has used the pandemic to fabricate a network of other serial killers. Now, with the domain opening back up, the UnSub’s network goes operational, and the BAU team must hunt them down, one execute at a time.
The team in question is comprised of faded cast members Paget Brewster (as Prentiss), Joe Mantegna (Rossi), A.J. Cook (JJ), Kirsten Vangsness (Garcia), Aisha Tyler (Tara) and Adam Rodriguez (Luke). As previously reported, neither OG cast member Matthew Gray Gubler nor Season 10 instant Daniel Henney will be reprising their roles, as Spencer and Matt respectively.
Additionally, Friday Night Lights vet Zach Gilford will recur as the aforementioned season-long baddie, Elias Voit, an operations analyst for a global cyber-security firm who has a dark side and obsession with death. Gilford’s post-FNL TV credits include L.A.’s Finest, Good Girls and, most recently, Midnight Mass.
Longtime Criminal Minds showrunner/EP Erica Messer is back to oversee the revival, with Breen Frazier and Chris Barbour returning as writers/executive producers.
A premiere date has not yet been set.
Check out the new photos of very ununcommon faces below.
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