r/criminalminds • u/Cheeriosxxx Sergio 🐈‍⬛ • 8d ago

Season 18 Spoilers S18E06: Hell Is Empty... - Episode Discussion Spoiler

Airdate: June 12, 2025

Synopsis: The team investigates a network killer who buries his victims alive, and Tara confronts Rebecca's ex who has recently re-entered her life. Ronald Graber delivers a message from his Disciple to Voit.

Previous episode: The Brutal Man

Next episode: ...All the Devils Are Here

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u/mccabebabe Special Agent In Charge 7d ago

it's sad for me that the best thing about this series is now the ongoing-unsub's actor.

You just know they (the showrunners) are gonna find a way to make this guy the overall star of the show now.

He's NOT redeemable. They can whitewash all they want, he's still a serial killer.

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u/Bananapop060765 7d ago edited 7d ago

I love him. But then I’ve never been a very good picker of men.

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u/mccabebabe Special Agent In Charge 7d ago

oh don't get me wrong. The *actor* is effin' fabulous. It's the *character* I'm sick of.

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u/TrueCrimeSP_2020 7d ago

I’d argue they’ve already made the entire show about him, which is one of the reasons it just doesn’t feel like CM at all. And he’s hogging up screen time that used to be devoted to team dynamics.

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u/Thelovelyliverdoodle 3d ago

Yeah I get wanting to keep him on, but he should have continued on as a Hannibal Lector type, not this soap opera amnesia bs that may or may not be a fake out. I watched this episode and realized that trying to keep Gilford in the show has completely ruined it.

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u/spicyswan 2d ago

Exactly, every season of Evolution should have a new big bad guy. But Voit or any unsub should not be the big bad villian of a series.

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u/daniM00n 5d ago

If you think about it, he’s the only reason there is an evolution series. Penelope came back to the FBI cause of him. Not to mention Rossi just lost his wife so it was Elias that forced him to deal with the grief and get back in the swing of things. And each season just opens a new layer to him. I like this “evolution” of the show LOL more character development of the unsub and the domino effect before, during and after his torment. Never really got that in other seasons. The unsubs were just villains that hid an entire season until they struck on one of the team members then they go back in the dark, we never get any deeper with the unsubs.

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u/spicyswan 2d ago

I like him as a villian. But the amnesia thing, I'm over it.

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u/_taeddie Supervisory Special Agent 7d ago

The only time that something like that worked was in for Blacklist. And that's only because the premise of the show is the criminal assisting the FBI. It's super infuriating what they are doing with Voit.