Hellloooo and welcome back to another episode of This is Calm, and it's Doctor! This week we chat our way through episode 18, "Somebody's Watching." This is a re-recorded episode, for reasons we explain in the podcast.  Reid and Gideon are in Los Angeles for a profiling seminar when LAPD asks for their help solving a series of murders of celebrities. The rest of the team joins them in sunny LA and meet Lila Archer, the young starlet seemingly at the center of the murders. Reid spends some one-on-one time with Lila as the team works to find her stalker, and things come to a dramatic end w ..read more

Hellloooo and welcome back to a completely  unhinged episode of This is Calm, and it's Doctor! This week we chat our way through episode 18, "Somebody's Watching." Reid and Gideon are in Los Angeles for a profiling seminar when LAPD asks for their help solving a series of murders of celebrities. The rest of the team joins them in sunny LA and meet Lila Archer, the young starlet seemingly at the center of the murders. Reid spends some one-on-one time with Lila as the team works to find her stalker, and things come to a dramatic end when the unsub gains access to Lila's house with her and R ..read more

Hello there! This week we chit chat our way through episode 17 of Criminal Minds, "A Real Rain." The team heads to New York City after a serious of ritualistic murders leaves three people dead. The unsub is shooting his victims, stabbing a knife into their brain through their ear, and blindfolding them. The investigation eventually reveals the unsub is a vigilante killer, and the team has to hunt him down before he kills again. Plus, Tanner regales you with horrific tales of the Toolbox Killers, the Mad Bomber and the Subway "Vigilante." Below we've linked some places you can donate to help Uk ..read more

Hello! Sorry we suck and missed a week. We had some ~technical difficulties~ that we explain in the episode. But we're back to chat our way through episode 16 of Criminal Minds, "The Tribe." The team heads to New Mexico after five college students are found murdered and a six student is presumed missing. Their investigation starts at the Apache reservation, but the team quickly realizes the pack of killers more closely resembles a cult.  Plus, ambient dog noises, the tragedy of white colonization of Indigenous lands, and Moneka gives the background on a number of cults mentioned in the ep ..read more

WE'RE BACK. So sorry for the long absence -- life is hard and busy. But we have returned to chat our way through episode 15 of Criminal Minds, "Unfinished Business." We meet retired agent Max Ryan, whose ~arch nemesis~ serial killer has come back to haunt him after a 20-year hiatus. The team clashes with Ryan's abrasive personality as they work to solve the case in Philadelphia -- eventually finding the unsub in the nick of time. Plus, we talk 90-day fiance, brain mold, and as always, Hamilton.  So happy to be back! Subscribe, rate and review if you're happy too!  ..read more

Hiya! We're back to chat our way through episode 14 of Criminal Minds, "Riding the Lightning." This emotional episode sees the team head to Florida State Penitentiary to interview a husband-wife duo on death row for the murders of 12 girls and their 2-year-old son. However, while the husband proves to be every bit the sexual psychopath he's diagnosed as, Gideon and the team quickly realize his wife is a different story. The team races against the clock to prove Sarah Jean's innocence before her scheduled time for execution comes, but she has other plans. Plus, Tanner is sick and stuffy and sou ..read more

We're back, baby! Sorry for the unplanned hiatus -- life's been a little crazy lately! But we've returned to chat our way through the 13th episode of Criminal Minds, "Poison." The team is called to New Jersey after a mass poisoning has left a young boy injured when his father, hallucinating from the drugs, beats him with a tire iron. The BAU has to figure out which type of profile fits this poisoner and who the target is. The poisonings take a turn for the deadly when botulism is introduced, and it turns into a race against the clock to get the affected the anti-poison. Plus, a Jenny Slate tan ..read more

Hellloooo! We're back this week to chat our way through the twelfth episode of Criminal Minds, "What Fresh Hell?" The team heads to Delaware after a young girl goes missing — however there was belief she was with her father, so the BAU  is already 20 hours behind the abduction. There's not much in the way of clues, but the team is racing against the clock to get young Billie home safely so they rely on their profile and make a public appeal for tips. Things get tense between the girl's divorced parents, especially as her father deals with serious illness. Plus, Tanner's dog makes sure he ..read more

Hello! We missed a week because ~life~ but we're back to chat through season one episode 11, "Blood Hungry." The team heads to rural Tennessee after a piano teacher is brutally murdered in her home — the second such crime recently. Another victim follows shortly after the team's arrival and it becomes clear to them that their killer is extremely mentally ill. They capture their unsub but realize he's had help concealing the young boy that he kidnapped. Plus, Moneka gives a quick history lesson, Tanner talks Richard Chase, and we get off topic on a Zodiac tangent. If you like this podcast pleas ..read more

Howdy! Today we dive into the 10th episode of Criminal Minds and chat our way through "The Popular Kids." The team heads to rural Virginia after a high school boy is killed on a hiking trail and his death leads local police to the skeletal remains of another body. The scene looks Satanic, so the locals call in the big guns to help put the case to rest. As the investigation progresses, it becomes clear to the BAU that the symbolism at the crime scene was likely no more than a diversion, and the unsub is probably a little more familiar to the sheriff than he'd like. Plus, we get real about menta ..read more