For me, Season 2 is one of the stronger overall seasons with some fine episodes. "No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank" concludes the season and is one of Season 2's most memorable episodes.
"No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank" looks great, love the dark and gritty and always stylish and classy look which is consistent throughout. The haunting and hypnotic music fits very well and never distracts, even if not quite enhancing it. The theme tune sticks in your head still.
The script is taut and thought-provoking (like the bookend quotations and the psychological profiling, Hotch has some great lines here), the case is complex and well-developed without being convoluted and is never dull and full of tension and suspense with especially brutal murders. Also love the chemistry of the team and Frank Breitkopf is one of the show's most notorious and notable killers and one of those who's an irredeemable monster.
'Criminal Minds' lead characters on the BAU team have personalities that even early on are well established. The direction is more than solid as is the case a lot of the time with the show. The acting is top-notch.
Mandy Patinkin is very commanding though, Thomas Gibson excels in giving a suitable stoic seriousness, Matthew Gray Gubler is a breath of fresh air (Reid has always been a favourite), Shemar Moore is appropriately tough and gritty and Kirsten Vangsness is charming as Penelope. Patinkin and Gibson are especially good here. Keith Carradine is superb as Frank, genuinely menacing.
Where "No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank" falls down a little is the ending, which is somewhat tacky and Frank's speech borders on the ridiculous.
Otherwise, it is a truly fine episode. 9/10 Bethany Cox
"No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank" looks great, love the dark and gritty and always stylish and classy look which is consistent throughout. The haunting and hypnotic music fits very well and never distracts, even if not quite enhancing it. The theme tune sticks in your head still.
The script is taut and thought-provoking (like the bookend quotations and the psychological profiling, Hotch has some great lines here), the case is complex and well-developed without being convoluted and is never dull and full of tension and suspense with especially brutal murders. Also love the chemistry of the team and Frank Breitkopf is one of the show's most notorious and notable killers and one of those who's an irredeemable monster.
'Criminal Minds' lead characters on the BAU team have personalities that even early on are well established. The direction is more than solid as is the case a lot of the time with the show. The acting is top-notch.
Mandy Patinkin is very commanding though, Thomas Gibson excels in giving a suitable stoic seriousness, Matthew Gray Gubler is a breath of fresh air (Reid has always been a favourite), Shemar Moore is appropriately tough and gritty and Kirsten Vangsness is charming as Penelope. Patinkin and Gibson are especially good here. Keith Carradine is superb as Frank, genuinely menacing.
Where "No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank" falls down a little is the ending, which is somewhat tacky and Frank's speech borders on the ridiculous.
Otherwise, it is a truly fine episode. 9/10 Bethany Cox