Criminal Minds: Night Lights and Composite Criticism

Intrinsic Appreciation:

After interviewing a few people, the team found out a few things that were very useful to understand who the unsub was, and what got him to do everything that he was doing to the victims. For example, after the team landed on Portland, Oregon, the team split. Some went to interview a few witnesses and others went to the police station. The ones that went to interview the witnesses, found out the unsub was wearing a set of weird looking eyewear to help him see during the night and was wearing black clothes. This specific information helped with the teams’ work and helped them with getting closer to finding the unsub faster before he killed anyone else. 

Extrinsic Appreciation: 

As the team went on doing their research, especially of the doctor, they found out that the doctor treated all kinds of therapy on the patients to help them get over their fears. The doctor (who was killed by the unsub) let go of this patient because the doctor was using this form of therapy that wasn’t working on his patient. After the doctor let the patient go, the parents kept on doing the therapy on their son, which led their son to suicide. His fear led him to kill himself. The team felt some sort of sympathy towards the doctor but also for the kid that killed himself. 

Intrinsic Evaluation: 

After the team found out certain criteria about the unsub, they went and gave the profile of the unsub to the police squad that are working with the team to capture the unsub. They evaluated the unsub based on an interview that they had. The person they interviewed was one of the neighbors that lived right across from the victims’ house. 

Extrinsic Evaluation: 

Criminal Minds has been a very successful show for many years. This show has shown many scenarios of different people and explain why they do certain things the way they do it. It helps us, the audience, to understand different perspectives and this is what makes this show a successful program. Also, their main characters help make the show a little more interesting as well. Each character has its own story, have their ways of being them, and that also helps the show be the show that it is.