Criminal Minds
Bad Blood
TV Flash files “Bad Blood” as a desk essential hour — Criminal Minds (2005–2020) on CBS, season 19, episode 10, aired 2026-07-23, 54 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S19E10: listed hour 364 of 364 in the Criminal Minds guide, last listed hour of season 19. It aired 2026-07-23 (54 min). The listed hour before it is “Special Agent Garrity” (S19E09). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Bad Blood”. Bad Blood is a late-revival bookend in this pack — the jet still flying, the profile board outlasting the original CBS decade that minted it.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Now that The Fan has been identified, the BAU and Elias Voit must disrupt his carefully laid plans in order to save his final victims. They discover that the answers they seek, about his fixation with Voit and his current location, lie in The Fan's twisted past. The ultimate showdown with the shadowy villain awaits them in this climactic finale.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Bad Blood sit in the Criminal Minds guide?
S19E10 is listed hour 364 of 364 — last listed hour of season 19, season 19 episode 10.
When did Criminal Minds S19E10 air?
Bad Blood aired 2026-07-23 and is listed at 54 minutes.
Is Criminal Minds too dark to be comfort TV?
It is formulaic dread with bullpen warmth: Reid's brain, Garcia's color, the jet as home. Serial-killer cases as appointment ritual, not prestige horror.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The jet, the profile board, the unsub of the week: CBS packaged serial-killer dread as a long-haul appointment ritual. Criminal Minds is bullpen warmth against formulaic dark — Reid's brain, Garcia's color, a procedural that lasted long enough to grow folklore and a streaming encore.
The jet is the silhouette. Criminal Minds (2005–2020) dresses serial-killer dread in CBS appointment tailoring: an elite FBI unit, a profile board as the week's jewelry, unsubs as a vocabulary the camera treats like a fabric you should not touch. Jeff Davis built a staple — Thomas Gibson, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler's Reid, Kirsten Vangsness's Garcia, A.J. Cook, Joe Mantegna — formulaic dark with ensemble warmth in the bullpen. Reid's brain. Garcia's color. Fifteen seasons as a long-haul ritual, later…
Filed against
- Thomas Gibson as Aaron Hotchner
Thomas Gibson ran Criminal Minds as Aaron Hotchner — the jet, the profile board, the unsub of the week, CBS serial-killer dread as a long-haul appointment ritual. Bullpen warmth against formulaic dark. TV Flash files him as 2000s…
- Shemar Moore as Derek Morgan
Shemar Moore charged Criminal Minds as Derek Morgan — bullpen warmth against the unsub of the week, a CBS jet that turned serial-killer dread into a long-haul appointment ritual. Muscle, loyalty, a profile board that still photographs…
- Matthew Gray Gubler as Spencer Reid
Matthew Gray Gubler boarded the jet as Spencer Reid on Criminal Minds — the profile board, the unsub of the week, CBS serial-killer dread as a long-haul appointment ritual. Bullpen warmth against formulaic dark, a brain as folklore. TV…
- Kirsten Vangsness as Penelope Garcia
Kirsten Vangsness's Penelope Garcia colored Criminal Minds from the bullpen's neon corner — CBS serial-killer appointment ritual, jet and profile board, warmth against formulaic dark. A procedural that lasted long enough to grow folklore.…
- A.J. Cook as Jennifer Jareau
A.J. Cook’s Jennifer Jareau became Criminal Minds’ liaison-and-heart — the jet, the profile board, the unsub of the week, CBS serial-killer dread as a long-haul appointment ritual. Bullpen warmth against formulaic dark, a procedural that…
- Joe Mantegna as David Rossi
Joe Mantegna’s David Rossi became Criminal Minds’ long-haul profiler — the jet, the board, the unsub of the week, CBS serial-killer dread as appointment ritual. Bullpen warmth against formulaic dark, a procedural that lasted long enough…