Is CBS's "Criminal Minds" really just soft core snuff porn?

Well don't expect serial killers hold the door for you and take you out to a 5 star restaurant before klling you.

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No, remember to ALWAYS be mindful of the season it's in. Criminal Minds is easily my all-time favorite TV drama despite the fact it jumped the shark two seasons ago, this being the third crap season. Combine that with the fact they lost all their writers last season and you have a dying show desperately clinging to viewers by way of shock value, hence the over-the-top violence now.

The first four seasons were ALL about hunting down the killers using psychology, statistics and otherwise good old fashioned police work. The killers varied in degrees of violence but the one constant was it was never about the gruesome acts they were performing, it was about catching them based on those acts. The investigators don't use evidence to find killers, they used the killers to find evidence. Totally reversed from the rest of the genre. Even when the first half of the show's run did feature excessive violence it was because the plot required it to. And the characters clearly explain why every time a body shows up.

And yes, it has ALWAYS been excessively creepy and disturbing. Serial killers aren't exactly notorious for their candor and common courtesy to their fellow man, so the show depicting them won't either. Again, the past 3 seasons has opted for shameless, exploitative violence to get its chills. The answer is yes and no; you're basing this off of recent episodes, and that is not what Criminal Minds is about.

I agree. I want to know who writes for this show and what traumatic experiences they must have endured in order to have these thoughts in their minds.

No, one of my faves.

No. I find it a little unrealistic...