Warning! Spoilers ahead for the Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 2 premiere.
Summary
Criminal Minds: Evolutionseason 2 does an impossible task after 19 years, but it isn’t worth celebrating. FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit continues its work on uncovering themystery of Gold Starafter it was previously set-up in its inaugural year. After the harrowing experience of learning, tracking, and eventuallycatching Elias Voit for creating and facilitating a serial killer network, Emily Prentiss and her team were presented with a new, and perhaps even bigger, issue to crack. WithClark Gregg’s FBI directorbreathing down their neck, the BAU has no choice but to put their best foot forward.
Thecast ofCriminal Minds: Evolutionseason 2 is largely the same, with the core BAU all coming back, unsurprisingly, considering that there’s only a two-week time jump between seasons. Even then, Prentiss' squad remains understaffed. Between that and his expertise, they recruit Tyler Green to be a consultant, which poses new issues to the group dynamic. Aside from his complicated history with the Sicarius case, his past relationship with Penelope Garcia is also an issue. This paves the way forCriminal Minds: Evolutionseason 2 to do something seemingly impossible to do in the last two decades.
What Did Voit Tell Alvez In Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 2, Episode 2’s Ending?
The two-part Criminal Minds: Evolution season 2 premiere ends with Elias Voit successfully breaking Luke Alvez’s composure with a revelation.
Garcia’s Tyler Obsessions Makes Her Annoying In Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 2
After Being Universally Loved, Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 2 Makes Garcia Tiresome
By the timeCriminal Minds: Evolutionseason 2picks up, not much has happened about solving the mystery of Gold Star. This pushesRossi to suggest bringing Green as a consultant, considering his seeming knowledge of Gold Star’s patterns. This sends Garcia into a spiral. Even before that, however, the BAU’s adorable but effective tech analyst is already acting uncharacteristic as she continues to pine over her fling partner, and watching her go down this path is annoying — something that didn’t seem possible, considering how beloved Garcia is in theCriminal Mindsfranchise.
Theopening scene forCriminal Minds: Evolutionseason 2is about Garcia’s birthday party, and when Green messages her, all logic seems to leave her body. If it wasn’t for Luke Alvez’s urging, she would have already jumped back together with Green even though she knows full well that their relationship is wrong. Starting it almost jeopardized their ops on Sicarius back inCriminal Minds: Evolutionseason 1. She also appears to forget that he manipulatedGarcia into returning to the BAUfor his own benefit, despite her rather peaceful life outside the BAU.
Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 2 Just Made An Upcoming Original CBS Character Tragedy Worse
Ahead of a previously-confirmed tragedy, Criminal Minds: Evolution season 2 makes one original CBS character’s fate more gut-wrenching.
Tyler’s Problematic Relationship Makes Garcia A Hypocrite In Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 2
Garcia Has A Strict No Dating A Co-Worker Policy
Over the years, Garcia has had her fair share of romantic interests in theCriminal Mindsfranchise, but nothing permanent came out of them. So when Alvez finally made his move at the end of the CBS series, it seemed like the perfect start for their relationship. Previously, she refused her advances, saying that she didn’t date someone that she worked with. WithGreen officially becoming a BAU consultantinCriminal Minds: Evolutionseason 2, even considering getting back together with him makes her a hypocrite. Not being sensitive to Alvez’s feelings makes it much worse.
Criminal Minds: Evolutionseason 2 drops new episodes every Thursday on Paramount+.
Criminal Minds: Evolution
Cast
InCriminal Minds: Evolution, the FBI’s elite team of criminal profilers come up against their greatest threat yet, an UnSub who has used the pandemic to build a network of other serial killers. As the world opens back up and the network goes operational, the team must hunt them down, one murder at a time. Original cast members continuing their roles include Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez and Paget Brewster. Zach Gilford joins the dynamic cast as a recurring guest star in a season-long arc.
