Kudos to the writers and actor portraying
Spencer Reid in Criminal minds for
the last two episodes of the show. Though the whole ‘Reid in jail’ arch was
boring and didn’t make any sense, there were two good things to come out of it.
First was a scene at the end of season 12 episode 21, when him and JJ are
standing in front of the door and Reid doesn’t remember he is allowed to touch
it. That was a great detail.
In episode 22 (I’m guessing the cliff-hanger
last episode of the season? Yup.) he is confronted again with a woman that
seemed to have gotten good rating and the audience asked for him to be
confronted with her again, on even worse terms. Since Reid is ‘the virgin’
character of the ensemble, the one to only love platonically and
intellectually, the evil character of Cat Adams is second closest he comes to
having a relationship. And it was a good twist, what with the rape and stealing
of his seed to father a baby inside a woman he clearly deems the worst humanity
has to offer. But he embraces the idea of being a father and doesn’t flinch
when she physically harasses him, as sexually as it is allowed on cable. Kudos
to the writers and the actor for all the scenes in which he doesn’t blink,
using his scrawny face and overall appearance and his large eyes to convey minimalistically
everything he has to say. That was surprisingly well done for a daytime TV
show. Took ‘em fucking long enough to get there, too.
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