Review of Criminal Minds Two-parter for Pavilion.

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The episodes we are reviewing deal with a serial killer (unfortunately, What else) who's multiple. The whole gist of it is there's this supposed team of people who murder others and then put it on the Internet. The BAU team follows the killer system, who kills several more couples, and eventually captures the whiz-kid named Reid. The system portrayed has the birth self, who is portrayed as weak and vacillating, the birth-self's abusive father as the Evil SoulbondTM, and a mediator self called Raphael who sounds just as Fundamentalist as the abusive father-self. The system captures Reid at the end of the first half of the two-parter, and then in the second-half taunts Reid with the choice between one family out three dying, and in a second taunt, one of his teammates dying. The team rescues him and the Evil Psycho MultipleTM dies from his victim's gun. Of course, to add drama, the system gives Reid a temptation to become a drug addict.
Pros of the appearance:
The only one I can think of is the fact that this system at least, despite being evil, co-operated.
Cons:
1. The system was portrayed as an evil psycho serial killer, who slaughtered people brutally.
2. The system portrayed was started by the typical abuse required for a fictional system.
3. The system was portrayed as a bunch of nuts.
4. The father-self was portrayed as a violent fanatic.
5. They HAD to make the Birth self the most heroic self in the system.
Conclusion: As per usual, with male multiples portrayed onscreen, a slur against the males who are multiple.
Review done by Tony Derouen^Crew.