The entirety of the show is deeply psychological, but it's really, really at its best when the cases have the UnSubs be as much victim as perpetrator, such as in Uncanny Valley, Conflicted, or Pleasure is My Business. Or conversely, when the UnSubs deliberately pit themselves against the profilers, such as in Fisher King, No Way Out, or Masterpiece.

At least, those are the eps I tend to like the best.

Uncanny Valley was the ep where I really saw Reid's maturity. His confrontation of the unsub's father as amazing, he made eye contact, he didn't sutter or dither. Wonderful.

Leverage:

This AG from West Virginia is a trip. I can't believe the writers went THERE.

le n, there's already someone on John's blog getting all pissy because they went there.

Any public figure can be parodied! Why shouldn't they parody Palin ?

no shit. and she's a cheap target anyway. it isn't like he went after Ronald Reagan.

Leverage isn't a procedural.

oh crap. I keep thinking it is!

looks around

Where am I? Who... who are you people?

Not sure if this should be in here or in Cable Drama but The Glades just went a LONG way towards winning my heart with the authenticity factor in tonight's episode. They had a scene with a Cuban store keeper that was so authentic in terms of setting and dialogue, I almost brewed up a colada of café.

It's definitely growing on me.

Ion's doing S1 of Criminal Minds again, and "Derailed" was on last night. I'd forgotten about Reid's monologue about the unsub's voices and his unseen friend; talk about giving us tons of backstory on Reid without being obvious about it! Of course, they had to make sure we caught it by having Elle question him afterwards, followed by having Reid read the epigram of Einstein questioning his own sanity.

Oh, and I'm thinking about committing CM fanfic, which means I've been firmly sucked into the fandom. Thanks a lot, everyone!!