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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior: Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 16, 2011
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
42 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 24 Critics What's this?

User Score
4.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 18 Ratings

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  • Summary: Forest Whitaker leads the Criminal Minds spin-off of the police drama about the FBI's Behavior Analysis Unit.
  • Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 24
  3. Negative: 7 out of 24
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Paige Wiser
    Feb 16, 2011
    75
    Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior is a solid addition to your evening lineup.
  2. The Huffington Post (formerly AOL TV)
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    Feb 16, 2011
    50
    [Whitaker's] charisma gives Suspect a strong center and his line delivery is consistently interesting. If the original 'Minds' is one of your favorite shows, there's no reason not to give this drama a shot.
  3. Hitfix
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Feb 15, 2011
    30
    I will only say that Suspect Behavior is basically the same show, but other than Whitaker, it's a much less interesting cast and collection of characters, with Garofalo particularly bad.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 3 out of 7
  1. AliveNside
    10
    As a long-time watcher of Criminal Minds, I was really excited about the spin-off. I really like Whitaker and Jeanine G. But, this show is just awful! I've watched 2.5 episodes and am all done. I agree with most posters here about the flat acting and poor chemistry, but am willing to forgive it, hoping for improvement as the show goes on. Wanted to give them time to "gel" with each other. It's the crazy leaping of logic that makes it hard to watch. They go from A to B too glibly and too quickly to be realistic. Last night's episode had a cashier vaguely describe the unsub, with behavior characteristics that did NOT match the characteristics the team created and yet the whole story moved forward as if this random guy, who happened to be in the same store as the unsub and who was described differently than the profile was absolutely positively the unsub with zero discussion or doubt. Just a stupid, stupid show. May as well be watching Monk for all the lack of suspense and intrigue. It's too linear, it's too flat and the flashback sequences are too choppy, short and usually unrelated to the profiling. If you are looking for a thinking person's show like Criminal Minds, this is not it.… Expand
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  2. nogo
    10
    Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior falls short of the mark. After watching the original, its like a Criminal Minds wan-ta be. The characters have no charisma. Its like they don't know exactly what to do next. I hope its gets better. (Put the Breakout Kings characters on the new Criminal Minds:Suspect Behavior and you might have a good show)… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. wordsilk
    2
    I didn't believe the premise. A "Red Cell" would be too damned expensive. And scrambled off to solve just one child being kidnapped? Uh, I don't think so. Then there's the cast. Forest Whitaker is The King of Ham. Nobody emotes like he emotes. Particularly in real life. The rest of the cast? Meh. Then there's the plot -- recycled BS, recycled bad guy (he was the Bad Guy on Detroit 1-8-7 the night before -- he must be pretty popular in the twisted bad guy pool). As far-fetched as even the original CM gets, it's at least interesting. CM2, not so much.… Expand
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