I loved the Hotch/Garcia and the Morgan/Garcia interaction this ep.

We have a total CM-style situation going on in Chicago right now. This guy was approaching people in Illinois and Indiana, striking up a conversation about honeybees, and then shooting them. You know, as you do.

Then it turns out it was a cop. Then yesterday there's a big community fundraiser for him to pay his bail. And now today he's actually been cleared and they're back to square one.

I've got to start reading the Tribune more often, brenda! I totally missed that story.

Tonight's CM was the best of the season so far, IMO. Loved the previously cited Garcia/Hotch and Garcia/Morgan stuff, but also loved Reid. I was just saying at TWOP that Reid conducting an interview is one of my favorite things on the show (I was just rewatching "The Fox" last night, and his interview with the Tony Todd character is one of my faves from the entire series), and he had three of them tonight.

Also, his hair wasn't as annoying as it has been since the end of last season. And it definitely seems like the costumers are making purple Reid's go-to color, because he was wearing it all episode long.

We have a total CM-style situation going on in Chicago right now.

I was reading about that earlier, after a coworker based in Chicagoland brought it up. Totally weird and made-for-TV-movie-ish.

Now LDSK is on ION. It's a Chicago kinda night, it seems. I pass through Des Plaines (and by the McDonald's Museum) if I'm avoiding the tollway to/from O'Hare.

Although they screwed up on mentioning "Arlington" in that ep. It's Arlington Heights, not Arlington.

ETA: I'm being picky, because AH is the town immediately south of me. Des Plaines is the next town south of AH.

It's Arlington Heights, not Arlington.

I caught that. It seems to happen fairly frequently with place names--they're almost right, but not quite. For example, in "100" they go through a list of MD cities in their search for Foyet. Emily mispronounces Bowie (I seem to remember Vortex vehemently shaking her head over it). Only newcomers make that mistake. Every last one of them would know how to pronounce it correctly.

They've also said Silver Springs more than once (It's Silver Spring, FWIW)

And yet, during ...A Thousand Words, when it was set in Tallahassee, the locals had southern accents and Spanish moss hung from oak trees. Plus, they had the correct surrounding towns and highways.

I was fairly impressed.

Reid volunteering to conduct the interview and his rationale for it had me fist-pumping and declaring "All hail the Beta male!"

Seriously, the Beta male is my favorite character archetype and MGG plays it to perfection.

I believe that over the Summer Reid's hair took drama class - it was emoting all over the place.

Why isn't there an emmy for most emotive hair?

They did a good job with Milwaukee in that ep with the brain-tumor guy.

So it's just the DC Metro area that they can't get right. I think they need to hire one of the DCistas as a consultant.