#cm Mosley lane

[wonderlandfairytales]

"he was alive yesterday?!" has got to be one of THE saddest moments in all of Criminal Minds

[sabage101]

Card declines at therapy and they bring out the parents of the boy who was alive yesterday

[wereoz]

is criminal minds s5ep16 mosley lane supposed to be inspired by/a retelling of hansel and gretel?

[leaveitalonesky]

Emily is so soft with kids man; and like I guess Paget wanted to reflect that you can be a woman and not have kids and be happy and succesfull or whatever.

But Emily is so soft with kids; like the idea of Emily as a foster parent (or adopting a kid) just fills me up with joy

[lavenderspence]

Scariest Criminal Minds Episode?

Remember this period on CM tiktok when everyone was sharing what according to them was the scariest episode?

The ones i saw the most being answered were "Mosley lane", "Seven Seconds", "Our Darkest Hour/The Longest Night", "The Lesson", "Lucky Strikes", "Normal" & "Mr. Scratch" with some of the less common ones being "The uncanny valley", "Outfoxed", & "The boogeyman".

One answer i didn't see and is in my opinion the scariest and creepiest episode is "Rabid". The one where this man used living people as a HOST to spread rabies. He'd literary hold them hostage and antagonize them until the virus reached its highest point, only to bring someone completely healthy to be infected and continue the spreading.

I literally got the chills watching that, and it's the only episode that made me squeamish and where i had the desire to turn it off. Couldn't stop thinking about what it felt like to get rabies for days after. I get the chills thinking about it.

And it sucks, because "rabid" has one of the cutest Reid/Garcia/Morgan scenes, ugh.

Anyway, i want to hear the tumblr cm fandom's take on this question. What's the scariest episode in your opinion?

[frankiebirds]

rambling about mosley lane under the cut SORRY this got lon and maybe a little incoherent i am sick. TLDR: i liked it a lot and mgg is a really good director

mosley lane was so good?? i know it sounds weird to be shocked given its reputation but holy shit it lived up to it.

to be honest, i had expected some of the hype to be bias because mgg directed. not that i had any doubts that he was talented—a cast member directing episodes of the tv show they feature in is nowhere near unheard of, and doesn't always mean they're a good director as well as an actor, but i do feel like directing twelve episodes of that show implies genuine talent. also, while cast members directing is pretty normal, most of them don't have degrees in directing. mgg had one before he even started on cm, only studied acting in HS because they didn't offer filmmaking, and iirc has outright said directing is his actual passion.

and yeah, mgg is definitely a really good director. i might just be biased like i thought other people could be, but i honestly think that may have been one of the best directed episodes of cm. (i see 3x10 getting a lot of praise in that regard, which i'm sure it deserves if i look just at the directing, but i...don't like that episode, sorry). i don't really know how to describe the rest of cm's directing, because...i mean it's not bad. but imo it's very safe samey. there were a lot of moments in 5x16 where i noticed the directing and thought it was very good. maybe i was paying more attention because i knew people talked a lot about mgg directing, but i have noticed the directing and editing of cm before. just usually not multiple times per episode.

also—this one i can't (fully) give to mgg, because it's partially the writing, partially beth grant's performance, partially mgg's direction of that performance, and other factors from various people that contribute, but i'm really happy this episode had an unsympathetic female unsub. i get frustrated sometimes with the apparent notion (not in cm so much, i think cm is actually quite good with this) that women are always Good and Pure and therefor only do bad things for sympathetic and understandable reasons. (obviously there's some nuance. i was writing about the nuance but it got nerdy and off-topic)

ANYWAY. i really liked it :) if mgg directed a horror film i would watch it.

(p.s. "he was alive yesterday?" hit like a train despite the fact that i knew it was coming. simon mirren and erica messer can i Talk To You.)

[boldlyvoid]

16 is my favourite number and it would seem some of the best episodes of CM are episode 16

S1E16 The Tribe

S2E16 Fear and Loathing

S3E16 Elephants Memory

S4E16 Pleasure is my Business

S5E16 Mosley Lane

S6E16 Coda

S10E16 Lockdown

S11E16 Derek Part 2

[virescent-v]

Top 5 CM eps?

I'm going to be honest. I haven't even remotely finished CM. I've a few episodes before Lauren.... don't hate me lol

So, I'm just going to do the ones that I can actually remember the titles for. I really don't remember titles or anything that well, especially with shows that have so many seasons.

Mosley Lane Minimal Loss 100 Demonology 52 Pick Up (solely for Emily in that dress in the club...)

[spencermorgans]

CM This or That!

1. Gideon or Rossi?

2. Elle or Emily?

3. Luke or Derek?

4. Will or Haley?

5. Profiler, Profiled or The Big Game/Revelations?

6. No Way Out or Omnivore?

7. 100 or Nelson’s Sparrow?

8. Penelope or Derek or Spencer?

9. Tara or Kate?

10. Darkest Hour/Longest Night or Lo-Fi/Mayhem?

11. Moreid or Jemily?

12. The Fisher King or The Bogeyman?

13. Entropy or Elephant’s Memory?

14. Lucky or The Fox?

15. Cradle to Grave or Mosley Lane?

16. Reid or Hotch?

17. Hossi or Hideon?

18. Jemily or Penemily?

19. Stephen Walker or Matt Simmons

20. Cat Adams or Lindsey Vaughn

[vintagedean]

“Mosley lane” is one of those cm eps where I just want to skip the last couple minutes bc the agony of those parents hearing the news they were like. A day too late. BRUTAL. BRUTAL.

[jareauwalker]

4, 13, 20, 25 for the cm asks!

4. favourite canon couple

willifer my beloveds, my parents who raised me

13. worst team

s6 when it was just hotch, morgan, rossi, reid, penelope & seaver

20. overhyped unsub, season, episode or all of the above

for unsub probably cat adams (i really liked her as a one off but i did not need to see more of her i fear), i'm not sure if i find an entire season overhyped, but for episodes basically any reid centric ones & mosley lane

25. favourite headcanon

horse girl jj is something very personal to me

[sabage101]

“HE WAS ALIVE YESTERDAY?”

Who hurt MGG for this episode to be this SAD???

[its-a-show-stoppin-number]

Evan Peters being 22-23 while playing Charlie in Mosley Lane, even in flashbacks where Charlie is supposed to be 13:

[moreidsdaughter]

mosley lane is one of the best episodes of criminal minds… no question

[truegenius]

Jennifer Jareau | Mosley Lane

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