Prentiss plans a first date with Mendoza but the evening is cut short. Prentiss faces her past when the team investigates murders of businessmen who have had their hearts taken.Prentiss plans a first date with Mendoza but the evening is cut short. Prentiss faces her past when the team investigates murders of businessmen who have had their hearts taken.Prentiss plans a first date with Mendoza but the evening is cut short. Prentiss faces her past when the team investigates murders of businessmen who have had their hearts taken.
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- TriviaWhen Matt asks Emily if she kept track of the unsub after 2011, and she seems uncomfortable answering before saying, "I wish I could have," she's clearly thinking of her "death" at the hands of Ian Doyle, which also happened in 2011 and forced her to go underground.
- GoofsWhen Alvez and Simmons fire their sidearms at the Unsub the actions on their pistols do not cycle, making it obvious they are using non-guns (props).
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David Rossi: Emily, how is the Bolognese de Rossi turning out?
Emily Prentiss: Yeah, that's the thing. Um, it's not tasting the way I expected.
David Rossi: What do you mean?
Emily Prentiss: I'm pretty sure I screwed up.
David Rossi: Well, how is that possible?
Emily Prentiss: Well, I kind of misplaced what you wrote down for me, so I winged it.
David Rossi: [insulted] You winged it? Y-Y-You don't exactly have the memory of our boy genius, you know.
Emily Prentiss: Therein lies my problem. So, uh, let me go over what I've done so far, starting with 28 ounces of pureed tomatoes, six ounces of canned tomato paste, a half cup of Orto red wine...
David Rossi: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop. That's cooking wine.
Emily Prentiss: Yes.
David Rossi: Emily, if my dear Nonna told me once, she told me a thousand times, if you no drink-a the wine, you no cook with the wine.
Emily Prentiss: Okay, but...
David Rossi: This is like when Garcia substituted tofu for pancetta. You have to start over. Ciao.
- ConnectionsFeatures Criminal Minds: In Name and Blood (2007)
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[Played when Prentiss is cooking dinner]
Likewise with "Flesh and Blood". Am probably going out on a big limb here and people will look at my opinion with raised eyebrows and a confused expression, but...to me "Flesh and Blood" wasn't horrible. Was expecting worse with it being one of Season 14's lowest rated episodes (not that that clouded things too much as "Broken Wing" is too as of now and that was a much better episode than expected too) and that the previous reviewers didn't care for it. But it actually for me turned out to be one of Season 14's best and more interesting episodes and actually found it one of the more successful throwback episodes of the show as well.
Not everything quite works in my view. Although very sweet, Prentiss' personal life subplot didn't gel with the case, which is here a very brutal one even by 'Criminal Minds' standards, and doesn't add massively to it. It ends pretty cheesily too.
Can also understand the feelings some have of the brutal nature of the case being on the sadistic side. The episode is not subtle in its depiction of violence and at times it goes overboard. For my tastes of course. Garcia's comments at the end agreed didn't strike me as particularly tasteful, being usually not a person who would appear to justify crimes of this nature.
"Flesh and Blood" still has a lot to like about it. It is shot with a lot of atmosphere and slickness, as (nearly) usual. The music has a haunting vibe without being over the top on that. It's directed with tautness yet with breadth too and the tension doesn't let up. The script is very well crafted and thought-provoking, with plenty of moments between the team to make one smile. The acting is more than fine, Paget Brewster being the standout of the regulars, especially at the end, while Judah Simard's performance is quite powerful. Interesting to see a different side to Penelope Ann Miller.
Actually on the whole really liked the story. It is a disturbing case, definitely not for the faint hearted, but also one that brought a lump to my throat. It is not too complex but never gets too obvious at the same time, even the unsub's identity is not that foreseeable and it is not clear straightaway (in a good way) that it is connected to an earlier case from years ago. The team work is great, the profiling not being underused and the answers provided through a connection that comes as a surprise and is not done too conveniently or in a contrived way, and again the closeness within the team is a joy. Loved Prentiss' sympathetic side, almost maternal later on, and the ending is one of the most touching ones for 'Criminal Minds' in a long time. The unsub is a very interesting one (one of the season's more interesting ones with a back-story that gives one chills and breaks the heart), and despite the awfulness of the crimes (and believe me they are exactly that) it is not actually them one ends up hating at the end.
Summarising, found myself surprisingly really liking "Flesh and Blood". 8/10
- TheLittleSongbird
- Nov 24, 2020
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