Criminal Minds: A Shade of Gray (2009)
Season 4, Episode 21
9/10
One of CM's best.
10 December 2012
Warning: Spoilers
*** This review definitely contains big spoilers ***

Superb episode, one of my favorites. I was going to give it an eight but bumped it up to nine for Kendall Ryan Sanders' performance, it was a masterpiece of subtleties.

From the first two minutes I could see from his behaviour he knew something while still looking like the distressed brother. Within five minutes of the start I knew he was involved. A very clever and intelligent performance that, I suspect, most would have missed if they weren't watching closely, the hints so subtly demonstrated. The casting agents have a talent for finding superb child actors on the occasions they feature prominently...brings to mind "Into The Woods" with Gattlin Griffith and "The Big Wheel" with Jake Cherry.

The rest of the episode was no less satisfying for the knowing and up to their usual high standards. One of the rare ones where their profile is wrong along with a couple of false leads to confuse and a frightening detail revealed right at the end.
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