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Criminal Minds: Machismo (2006)
Cultural Inaccuracies ALL OVER
I absolutely love the show, but the horrible Spanish, the cultural inaccuracies and the ignorant comments about Latin Culture absolutely ruined this episode. Elle's background story, about being half-Cuban, was very messy, due to her accent and many grammatical errors as well as the ignorant use of the Spanish "tu" in a country where "usted" is most commonly used. Her repetition of 'I speak Spanish' was unnecessary and untrue, she was rather unable to conduct a formal investigation in her broken Spanish and all people they spoke with miraculously switched to pretty fluent English straight after Elle got in her first Spanish line. I believe that Cinco de Mayo is not widely celebrated in Mexico and it was therefore wrong of the producers to assume that this would be a normal thing to do. Overall, I found this to be a very uninteresting episode filled with offensive inaccuracies and side stories that did not help the plot.