The team works to clear Hotch's name after he's arrested by the DOJ for conspiracy.The team works to clear Hotch's name after he's arrested by the DOJ for conspiracy.The team works to clear Hotch's name after he's arrested by the DOJ for conspiracy.
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- TriviaBodhi Elfman (Peter Lewis, A.K.A. Mr. Scratch)'s wife, Jenna Elfman, starred in Dharma & Greg (1997) with Thomas Gibson (Hotch).
- GoofsReid tells Lewis that his mother is not afraid of flying but that she is afraid of cruise ships. However, in The Fisher King: Part 2 (2006), Diana Reid states that she is terrified of flying more than anything.
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Aaron Hotchner: Who gave you probable cause to put me under surveillance?
Timothy Ritchie: A confidential source.
Aaron Hotchner: Tell me now or I will invoke.
Timothy Ritchie: You know who needs lawyers? Guilty people.
Aaron Hotchner: Smart people. So lay out your entire case to me right now, or every attorney I know will drop everything and come help me.
- ConnectionsReferences The Godfather (1972)
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Season 11's finale sends up a storm
Despite being a big fan of 'Criminal Minds', Season 11 was largely underwhelming for reasons too numerous to list, including too much unsub and not enough team, lack of profiling and psychology, too much emphasis on the personal lives and not enough tension and suspense.
"The Storm" is one of the season's best episodes, a very good season finale and ranks with the show's better ones ("The Fisher King Part I", "No Way Out: The Evilution of Frank II" and "Lo-Fi" coming out on top). Other "best of the season" episodes are "Entropy", "The Job", "Hostage" and "The Witness", proof that a mostly underwhelming season with bad episodes like "Till Death Do Us Part", "The Bond", "Future Perfect", "Awake", "Inner Beauty", "Internal Affairs", "Outlaw" and "Drive" has its high points.
So much about "The Storm" works, though with a couple of foibles that just stop it from being exceptional. How Hotch's subplot is resolved feels a bit anti-climactic and there are a couple of parts that come over a bit tenuous and too conveniently gotten to.
However, "The Storm" looks slick and stylish. The music is appropriately moody, in both the haunting and melancholic sense. The direction is quick-paced yet sympathetic, and all the acting is very good (including Aisha Tyler, who tended to be a big season weak link).
Writing is thought-provoking, tightly structured, tense and smart with some clever and nostalgia-inducing references to past cases and characters, while so much of the story is tense and suspenseful. Hotch's arrest subplot is brilliantly done here, one really relates to Hotch and understands his anger towards the annoyingly smug detective and cheers him on silently as he takes him to task with brutal honesty. The climactic moments with the prisoners has a lot of suspense, while Reid's sympathetic rapport with Asher and his magic trick also shines.
"The Storm" is one of not many times in Season 11 where Lewis didn't bother me, and an instance where JJ's anger and toughness was in keeping with the story and understandable. The helicopter scene was positively explosive in every sense. What could have been a sappy end to the episode was actually welcome levity and then ending on an ominous note.
Overall, very good season finale and in its numerous best moments sends up a storm. 8/10 Bethany Cox
"The Storm" is one of the season's best episodes, a very good season finale and ranks with the show's better ones ("The Fisher King Part I", "No Way Out: The Evilution of Frank II" and "Lo-Fi" coming out on top). Other "best of the season" episodes are "Entropy", "The Job", "Hostage" and "The Witness", proof that a mostly underwhelming season with bad episodes like "Till Death Do Us Part", "The Bond", "Future Perfect", "Awake", "Inner Beauty", "Internal Affairs", "Outlaw" and "Drive" has its high points.
So much about "The Storm" works, though with a couple of foibles that just stop it from being exceptional. How Hotch's subplot is resolved feels a bit anti-climactic and there are a couple of parts that come over a bit tenuous and too conveniently gotten to.
However, "The Storm" looks slick and stylish. The music is appropriately moody, in both the haunting and melancholic sense. The direction is quick-paced yet sympathetic, and all the acting is very good (including Aisha Tyler, who tended to be a big season weak link).
Writing is thought-provoking, tightly structured, tense and smart with some clever and nostalgia-inducing references to past cases and characters, while so much of the story is tense and suspenseful. Hotch's arrest subplot is brilliantly done here, one really relates to Hotch and understands his anger towards the annoyingly smug detective and cheers him on silently as he takes him to task with brutal honesty. The climactic moments with the prisoners has a lot of suspense, while Reid's sympathetic rapport with Asher and his magic trick also shines.
"The Storm" is one of not many times in Season 11 where Lewis didn't bother me, and an instance where JJ's anger and toughness was in keeping with the story and understandable. The helicopter scene was positively explosive in every sense. What could have been a sappy end to the episode was actually welcome levity and then ending on an ominous note.
Overall, very good season finale and in its numerous best moments sends up a storm. 8/10 Bethany Cox
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