Criminal Minds (2005)

Crime · Drama · Mystery

An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.

IMDb rating: 8.1 (243,590 votes)
Episode average: 7.7 -0.4 vs IMDb
Seasons: 19
Streaming (US): Hulu · Amazon Prime Video · Paramount+
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2005)

7.72 avg 22 episodes 7.8 → 8.5 44 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Extreme Aggressor	7.8	4,234
2	Compulsion	7.6	3,521
3	Won't Get Fooled Again	7.6	3,395
4	Plain Sight	7.7	3,137
5	Broken Mirror	7.8	3,258
6	L.D.S.K.	8.3	3,821
7	The Fox	7.9	3,158
8	Natural Born Killer	7.5	2,983
9	Derailed	7.8	3,797
10	The Popular Kids	7.4	3,424
11	Blood Hungry	7.1	3,494
12	What Fresh Hell?	7.4	2,697
13	Poison	7.3	2,760
14	Riding the Lightning	8.7	5,147
15	Unfinished Business	7.7	2,757
16	The Tribe	7.6	2,995
17	A Real Rain	7.6	2,728
18	Somebody's Watching	8.2	3,984
19	Machismo	7.2	2,876
20	Charm and Harm	7.6	2,654
21	Secrets and Lies	7.6	3,347
22	The Fisher King: Part 1	8.5	3,743

Season 2 (2006)

7.98 avg 23 episodes 8.7 → 8.3 42 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Fisher King: Part 2	8.7	3,545
2	P911	7.9	2,717
3	The Perfect Storm	7.7	2,497
4	Psychodrama	7.4	2,623
5	Aftermath	7.6	2,691
6	The Boogeyman	7.8	3,108
7	North Mammon	8.1	2,917
8	Empty Planet	7.6	2,605
9	The Last Word	7.8	2,571
10	Lessons Learned	8.3	2,912
11	Sex, Birth, Death	8.5	3,830
12	Profiler, Profiled	8.2	3,071
13	No Way Out	8.4	2,945
14	The Big Game	8.2	2,846
15	Revelations	8.9	4,340
16	Fear and Loathing	7.5	2,612
17	Distress	7.7	2,556
18	Jones	8.1	3,430
19	Ashes and Dust	7.7	2,593
20	Honor Among Thieves	7.1	3,033
21	Open Season	7.9	2,754
22	Legacy	8.1	2,606
23	No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank	8.3	3,309

Season 3 (2007)

7.88 avg 20 episodes 7.6 → 8.5 48 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Doubt	7.6	2,459
2	In Name and Blood	7.9	2,550
3	Scared to Death	7.5	2,524
4	Children of the Dark	7.9	2,467
5	Seven Seconds	8.3	2,857
6	About Face	7.5	2,425
7	Identity	7.4	2,392
8	Lucky	8.2	3,461
9	Penelope	8.7	3,781
10	True Night	7.8	2,843
11	Birthright	7.7	2,484
12	3rd Life	8.0	2,682
13	Limelight	7.5	2,460
14	Damaged	8.0	3,203
15	A Higher Power	7.4	2,499
16	Elephant's Memory	8.3	3,378
17	In Heat	7.6	2,585
18	The Crossing	7.6	2,407
19	Tabula Rasa	8.1	3,130
20	Lo-Fi	8.5	3,345

Season 4 (2008)

7.97 avg 26 episodes 8.6 → 8.7 42 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Mayhem	8.6	3,614
2	The Angel Maker	7.7	2,587
3	Minimal Loss	8.2	3,380
4	Paradise	7.6	2,507
5	Catching Out	7.2	2,451
6	The Instincts	8.1	3,214
7	Memoriam	8.4	3,344
8	Masterpiece	8.3	2,995
9	52 Pickup	7.9	2,704
10	Brothers in Arms	7.5	2,355
11	Normal	8.3	2,761
12	Soul Mates	7.7	2,333
13	Bloodline	7.8	2,471
14	Cold Comfort	7.4	2,190
15	Zoe's Reprise	8.1	2,477
16	Pleasure Is My Business	8.1	2,741
17	Demonology	7.0	2,944
18	Omnivore	8.6	2,876
19	House on Fire	7.3	2,935
20	Conflicted	8.4	3,619
21	A Shade of Gray	8.0	2,360
22	The Big Wheel	8.2	3,470
23	Roadkill	7.3	2,466
24	Amplification	8.4	3,280
25	To Hell...	8.5	2,834
26	...And Back	8.7	659

Season 5 (2009)

7.72 avg 23 episodes 8.0 → 8.0 44 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Faceless, Nameless	8.0	2,656
2	Haunted	7.7	2,999
3	Reckoner	7.4	2,894
4	Hopeless	7.3	2,459
5	Cradle to Grave	7.6	2,198
6	The Eyes Have It	7.2	2,218
7	The Performer	7.4	2,484
8	Outfoxed	7.7	2,216
9	100	9.2	4,747
10	The Slave of Duty	7.7	2,186
11	Retaliation	7.3	2,154
12	The Uncanny Valley	8.4	3,373
13	Risky Business	7.7	2,995
14	Parasite	7.4	2,137
15	Public Enemy	7.6	2,087
16	Mosley Lane	8.9	4,312
17	Solitary Man	7.4	2,060
18	The Fight	7.3	2,425
19	Rite of Passage	7.3	2,231
20	...A Thousand Words	7.9	2,601
21	Exit Wounds	7.5	2,881
22	The Internet Is Forever	7.7	2,439
23	Our Darkest Hour	8.0	2,409

Season 6 (2010)

7.64 avg 24 episodes 8.1 → 7.7 43 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Longest Night	8.1	2,587
2	JJ	8.1	2,652
3	Remembrance of Things Past	7.7	2,165
4	Compromising Positions	7.3	2,808
5	Safe Haven	7.7	2,239
6	Devil's Night	7.2	2,190
7	Middle Man	7.6	2,864
8	Reflection of Desire	7.7	3,065
9	Into the Woods	7.7	2,323
10	What Happens at Home...	7.6	2,177
11	25 to Life	7.8	2,170
12	Corazon	7.5	2,934
13	The Thirteenth Step	7.4	2,376
14	Sense Memory	7.3	2,106
15	Today I Do	7.2	2,239
16	Coda	8.1	3,085
17	Valhalla	8.0	2,280
18	Lauren	8.7	3,275
19	With Friends Like These	7.5	2,772
20	Hanley Waters	7.5	2,031
21	The Stranger	7.3	1,861
22	Out of the Light	7.4	1,895
23	Big Sea	7.2	2,028
24	Supply and Demand	7.7	2,011

Season 7 (2011)

7.72 avg 24 episodes 8.0 → 8.5 42 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	It Takes a Village	8.0	2,481
2	Proof	7.9	2,306
3	Dorado Falls	7.7	2,298
4	Painless	7.8	2,620
5	From Childhood's Hour	7.4	2,030
6	Epilogue	7.4	2,102
7	There's No Place Like Home	7.2	2,163
8	Hope	7.6	2,788
9	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy	7.7	1,977
10	The Bittersweet Science	7.2	2,039
11	True Genius	8.4	3,097
12	Unknown Subject	8.0	2,139
13	Snake Eyes	7.2	2,715
14	Closing Time	7.2	1,967
15	A Thin Line	7.3	1,996
16	A Family Affair	7.5	2,035
17	I Love You, Tommy Brown	7.3	2,697
18	Foundation	7.9	2,100
19	Heathridge Manor	8.0	3,064
20	The Company	8.2	2,155
21	Divining Rod	7.4	1,979
22	Profiling 101	8.0	2,132
23	Hit	8.4	2,497
24	Run	8.5	2,545

Season 8 (2012)

7.61 avg 24 episodes 7.3 → 8.2 42 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Silencer	7.3	2,092
2	The Pact	7.4	2,038
3	Through the Looking Glass	7.5	1,919
4	God Complex	7.7	2,730
5	The Good Earth	7.4	2,461
6	The Apprenticeship	7.6	2,176
7	The Fallen	7.6	1,932
8	The Wheels on the Bus...	7.3	2,776
9	Magnificent Light	7.1	2,412
10	The Lesson	8.2	3,059
11	Perennials	7.3	1,969
12	Zugzwang	8.6	3,542
13	Magnum Opus	7.6	2,631
14	All That Remains	7.9	1,985
15	Broken	7.5	2,033
16	Carbon Copy	7.8	1,922
17	The Gathering	7.3	2,402
18	Restoration	7.7	1,987
19	Pay It Forward	7.3	1,983
20	Alchemy	7.6	2,609
21	Nanny Dearest	7.7	2,302
22	#6	7.4	2,049
23	Brothers Hotchner	7.7	1,903
24	The Replicator	8.2	2,280

Season 9 (2013)

7.70 avg 24 episodes 7.4 → 8.7 42 min avg

Big finale

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Inspiration	7.4	2,152
2	The Inspired	7.5	2,076
3	Final Shot	7.7	1,951
4	To Bear Witness	7.5	2,103
5	Route 66	7.7	2,071
6	In the Blood	7.4	1,943
7	Gatekeeper	7.8	2,624
8	The Return	7.4	1,933
9	Strange Fruit	7.8	2,113
10	The Caller	8.0	2,395
11	Bully	7.5	1,846
12	The Black Queen	7.4	2,685
13	The Road Home	7.6	1,818
14	200	8.2	2,478
15	Mr. & Mrs. Anderson	7.4	1,818
16	Gabby	8.0	2,198
17	Persuasion	7.5	2,419
18	Rabid	7.6	1,889
19	The Edge of Winter	7.7	1,990
20	Blood Relations	7.9	2,732
21	What Happens in Mecklinburg...	7.4	2,074
22	Fatal	7.4	2,035
23	Angels	8.2	2,394
24	Demons	8.7	2,877

Season 10 (2014)

7.50 avg 23 episodes 7.6 → 7.9 42 min avg

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	X	7.6	2,260
2	Burn	7.2	2,574
3	A Thousand Suns	7.6	2,588
4	The Itch	7.3	2,018
5	Boxed In	7.4	2,139
6	If the Shoe Fits	7.5	2,211
7	Hashtag	7.5	1,920
8	The Boys of Sudworth Place	7.5	1,920
9	Fate	7.4	1,985
10	Amelia Porter	7.2	2,204
11	The Forever People	7.6	2,508
12	Anonymous	7.5	1,981
13	Nelson's Sparrow	8.1	2,636
14	Hero Worship	7.3	2,435
15	Scream	7.3	1,913
16	Lockdown	7.7	2,210
17	Breath Play	7.1	2,208
18	Rock Creek Park	7.5	2,447
19	Beyond Borders	7.0	2,488
20	A Place at the Table	7.4	2,430
21	Mr. Scratch	8.7	3,327
22	Protection	7.2	2,189
23	The Hunt	7.9	2,102

Season 11 (2015)

7.50 avg 22 episodes 7.6 → 8.1 42 min avg

Season 11 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Job	7.6	1,917
2	The Witness	7.5	2,307
3	'Til Death Do Us Part	7.0	1,932
4	Outlaw	7.2	1,918
5	The Night Watch	7.2	1,915
6	Pariahville	7.3	1,986
7	Target Rich	7.5	1,988
8	Awake	6.7	2,397
9	Internal Affairs	7.0	2,314
10	Future Perfect	6.6	2,302
11	Entropy	9.2	3,908
12	Drive	7.2	1,964
13	The Bond	7.1	1,946
14	Hostage	8.3	2,329
15	A Badge and a Gun	7.4	1,833
16	Derek	8.1	2,306
17	The Sandman	7.3	1,929
18	A Beautiful Disaster	8.4	2,604
19	Tribute	7.5	1,892
20	Inner Beauty	7.0	2,012
21	Devil's Backbone	7.8	2,066
22	The Storm	8.1	2,148

Season 12 (2016)

7.40 avg 22 episodes 7.4 → 8.4 42 min avg

Season 12 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Crimson King	7.4	2,207
2	Sick Day	7.5	2,445
3	Taboo	7.2	2,266
4	Keeper	7.1	1,911
5	The Anti-Terror Squad	7.1	1,829
6	Elliott's Pond	7.6	2,397
7	Mirror Image	7.8	2,251
8	Scarecrow	7.3	1,924
9	Profiling 202	7.3	2,002
10	Seek and Destroy	7.2	1,983
11	Surface Tension	7.2	2,194
12	A Good Husband	6.7	2,188
13	Spencer	7.8	2,341
14	Collision Course	7.3	1,888
15	Alpha Male	7.3	1,967
16	Assistance Is Futile	7.2	2,130
17	In the Dark	7.4	2,122
18	Hell's Kitchen	7.3	2,153
19	True North	7.1	2,081
20	Unforgettable	7.5	1,886
21	Green Light	8.2	2,046
22	Red Light	8.4	2,145

Season 13 (2017)

7.48 avg 22 episodes 8.2 → 8.5 42 min avg

Season 13 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Wheels Up	8.2	1,935
2	To a Better Place	7.5	2,005
3	Blue Angel	7.3	1,632
4	Killer App	7.5	1,732
5	Lucky Strikes	7.7	1,614
6	The Bunker	7.7	1,978
7	Dust and Bones	7.3	1,817
8	Neon Terror	7.0	1,345
9	False Flag	7.4	1,514
10	Submerged	6.9	1,236
11	Full-Tilt Boogie	7.4	1,348
12	Bad Moon on the Rise	7.2	1,676
13	Cure	7.4	1,544
14	Miasma	7.2	1,689
15	Annihilator	7.6	1,763
16	Last Gasp	8.2	1,452
17	The Capilanos	7.5	1,778
18	The Dance of Love	7.4	1,470
19	Ex Parte	7.6	1,423
20	All You Can Eat	7.0	1,227
21	Mixed Signals	7.0	1,154
22	Believer	8.5	1,679

Season 14 (2018)

7.55 avg 15 episodes 8.3 → 7.5 42 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 14 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	300	8.3	1,582
2	Starter Home	7.6	1,202
3	Rule 34	7.4	1,164
4	Innocence	7.1	1,097
5	The Tall Man	8.3	1,511
6	Luke	7.4	1,195
7	Twenty Seven	7.7	1,193
8	Ashley	7.4	1,107
9	Broken Wing	7.3	1,056
10	Flesh and Blood	7.4	1,056
11	Night Lights	7.2	1,001
12	Hamelin	7.4	1,098
13	Chameleon	8.2	1,251
14	Sick and Evil	7.1	946
15	Truth or Dare	7.5	1,231

Season 15 (2020)

7.68 avg 10 episodes 7.9 → 7.5 42 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 15 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Under the Skin	7.9	1,046
2	Awakenings	7.9	986
3	Spectator Slowing	7.2	866
4	Saturday	8.0	1,178
5	Ghost	7.3	875
6	Date Night	8.6	1,342
7	Rusty	7.0	863
8	Family Tree	7.2	845
9	Face Off	8.2	908
10	And in the End	7.5	1,282

Season 16 (2022)

7.93 avg 10 episodes 7.9 → 7.9 50 min avg

Season 16 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Just Getting Started	7.9	1,257
2	Sicarius	8.1	1,043
3	Moose	7.9	895
4	Pay-Per-View	7.7	825
5	Oedipus Wrecks	8.3	845
6	True Conviction	7.7	767
7	What Doesn't Kill Us	7.8	747
8	Forget Me Knots	8.0	730
9	Memento Mori	8.0	772
10	Dead End	7.9	869

Season 17 (2024)

7.62 avg 10 episodes 7.9 → 7.7 52 min avg

Season 17 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Gold Star	7.9	712
2	Contagion	7.7	634
3	Homesick	7.3	589
4	Kingdom of the Blind	7.5	575
5	Conspiracy vs. Theory	7.5	533
6	Message in a Bottle	7.2	589
7	Piranha	7.8	623
8	North Star	7.8	554
9	Stars & Stripes	7.8	491
10	Save the Children	7.7	539

Season 18 (2025)

7.33 avg 10 episodes 7.3 → 7.3 53 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 18 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Swimmer's Calculus	7.3	545
2	The Zookeeper	6.9	586
3	Time to Say Goodbye	8.1	922
4	I'm Fine, It's Fine. Everything Is Fine	7.5	462
5	The Brutal Man	7.4	460
6	Hell Is Empty...	7.5	410
7	...All the Devils Are Here	7.7	419
8	Tara	5.9	609
9	CollateRal	7.7	367
10	The Disciple	7.3	390

Season 19 (2026)

7.78 avg 10 episodes 7.2 → 8.3 54 min avg

Season 19 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Now and Then	7.2	395
2	Cluster	7.5	327
3	Body Count	7.6	296
4	The Witching Hour	8.0	357
5	Friendly Fire	7.9	298
6	Proxy	7.8	258
7	The Furies	7.9	272
8	Requiem	7.6	224
9	Special Agent Garrity	8.0	219
10	Bad Blood	8.3	229

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