Oedipus Wrecks
- Episode aired Dec 15, 2022
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8.3/10
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Deputy Director Bailey to ask the BAU to take a case involving young DC socialites bitten by a sadistic UnSub.Deputy Director Bailey to ask the BAU to take a case involving young DC socialites bitten by a sadistic UnSub.Deputy Director Bailey to ask the BAU to take a case involving young DC socialites bitten by a sadistic UnSub.
Jacqueline Pinol
- Dr. Judith Mertz
- (as Jacqueline Piñol)
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- TriviaOedipus Wrecks is a play on the Sophocles play Oedipus Rex. In the play, Oedipus's father, the King, has a homicidal response to a prophecy that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother. As in all these tales, human's fate is already set, and their efforts to avoid it just ensure it finds them. As an adult, raised by parents he believed were his own, Oedipus was given the same prophecy as his father, so left his home to spare his parents; unwittingly traveling to his father's kingdom. On his way there he kills a stranger in a fight, and a little later he marries a widowed queen (who he had no way of knowing he was related to). Upon discovery of the truth, Jocasta (Oedipus's mother and wife) kills herself, and Oedipus blinds himself. Due to misunderstanding the story, an Oedipal complex is where a son lusts after his mother. A Jocasta complex, named for Oedipus' mother, describes a mother lusting after her son.
- GoofsWhen Alvez is at the Loudoun County dump site, he points at a map and says the dump sites are hundreds of miles apart. But the map he is using is clearly a neighborhood-scale map, maybe only tens' of miles across.
- Quotes
Jennifer Jareau: [opening quote] "A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew" - Herb Caen
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Wow off the bat this is up there with those amazing mid season finales and honestly season finales of this show !!
The entire episode was great, the mom who is high up using her power for bad is such a real thing happening but yet I didn't feel like the show was sending a message other than corrupt power is everywhere.
The case itself was great, there was times I was shouting and shaking my head, exactly what the episode wanted from the viewer,
This episode ends on a huge cliff hanger, I thought it was going in a direction that was fairly obvious but I don't know anymore I'm really questioning it !!
Real good episode, this season has started so strong I hope it keeps it up, hats off to the BAU and the writing team this season ! 10 episodes is definitely the right call over 24.
The entire episode was great, the mom who is high up using her power for bad is such a real thing happening but yet I didn't feel like the show was sending a message other than corrupt power is everywhere.
The case itself was great, there was times I was shouting and shaking my head, exactly what the episode wanted from the viewer,
This episode ends on a huge cliff hanger, I thought it was going in a direction that was fairly obvious but I don't know anymore I'm really questioning it !!
Real good episode, this season has started so strong I hope it keeps it up, hats off to the BAU and the writing team this season ! 10 episodes is definitely the right call over 24.
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- eoinpgeary
- Dec 14, 2022
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