As a LOYAL criminal mind fan, I feel this spin off has potential but 5 episodes in, I feel the international cases are usually harder to crack and scrunching them into 1 episode makes the tempo really quick and lack reasonable logic or the 'inclusion' so to speak of audience to deduce with the case progress as an crime thriller fan I feel as I was about to put cultural traditions mentioned by the team together, then the answer is given straight away and I don't feel the sense of 'thrill', I would rather see it in 2 episodes per case, maybe the story would be more attractive.
The case is also very heavy in terms emotions and with the previous criminal minds, PENELOPE GARCIA's personality and her colorful style of fashion, Ried's anti-social characteristics balances the cases out, I feel in this spin off, everyone is so serious, Even Mave has an outgoing personality but it is not strong enough to balance it out. There lacks a sense of humour of course some cultures don't take humour very well but it should be blend in somewhere.
Some comments of the series was that it makes other parts of the world seems scary. Well, I think so far, the psychopaths in each episode is pretty extreme and crazy but does not create a sense of 'thrill' their MO are very 'violent' rather than 'psycho'(not much screen time for the serial killers to create a sense of suspense or thrill, it feels like it was just pushed in the plot) where in original series there was more of a plot of what they do before the team got onto them.
Lastly, my question from the beginning of following these series is that well, there is only so many countries in the world if an different country each episode, I feel it will run out of stories or cases within a few seasons, not a good idea in terms of long run.
But with all the above being said I will keep an open mind before drawing the conclusion of good or awful, Personally I really hope it goes well! Hopefully better episodes are on the way!
The case is also very heavy in terms emotions and with the previous criminal minds, PENELOPE GARCIA's personality and her colorful style of fashion, Ried's anti-social characteristics balances the cases out, I feel in this spin off, everyone is so serious, Even Mave has an outgoing personality but it is not strong enough to balance it out. There lacks a sense of humour of course some cultures don't take humour very well but it should be blend in somewhere.
Some comments of the series was that it makes other parts of the world seems scary. Well, I think so far, the psychopaths in each episode is pretty extreme and crazy but does not create a sense of 'thrill' their MO are very 'violent' rather than 'psycho'(not much screen time for the serial killers to create a sense of suspense or thrill, it feels like it was just pushed in the plot) where in original series there was more of a plot of what they do before the team got onto them.
Lastly, my question from the beginning of following these series is that well, there is only so many countries in the world if an different country each episode, I feel it will run out of stories or cases within a few seasons, not a good idea in terms of long run.
But with all the above being said I will keep an open mind before drawing the conclusion of good or awful, Personally I really hope it goes well! Hopefully better episodes are on the way!