Criminal Minds Beyond Borders: What's the difference?

For anyone familiar with police procedural drama, Criminal Minds is not a new thing. The long running series about FBI’s BAU team reached its 11the season this year and for me, personally, making someone to keep watching your series for 11 years is a huge thing. Well done team!!

This past 11 years, other than the original series, the team also produced not only one but two spin-offs. The first one, titled Criminal Minds Suspect Behavior debuted on 2011 and cancelled after 13 episodes because of its low ratings.  After 5 years, they finally release the second spin-off titled Criminal Minds Beyond Borders. Beyond Borders was debuted March 16, 2016 and successfully caught my attention since then.

The new spin-off, starring familiar face Garry Sinise, as Jack Garrett, the head of FBI’s International Response Team unit.  The team travels a lot to help solves cases involving American citizens in foreign country. Other than Garry Sinise, the team also consist of a tech analyst, Russ Montgomery (Tyler James Williams), a former army and special ops agent, Matthew Simmons (Daniel Henney), a linguistic specialist, Clara Seger (Anna de la Garza), and last but not least a medical examiner, Mae Jarvis (Annie Funke).

Beyond Borders brings the different sides of the original series but at the same time keeping the same spirit, the same professionalism. It brings us to different country every week, so we’ll meet different unsub (unknown subject) with different cultural background, making it even more interesting. As they travel a lot of different country, they have a bigger, way bigger jet than the BAU team they could bring two cars and a motorcycle in it. My mouth wide open the first time I saw it. They also collect money from the country they travel and put it on the board inside their jet, cool!!

After several episodes I noticed another thing that makes Beyond Borders different from another procedural drama, even from its original series. While another police procedural series capture the dark side of the character’s personal life, the characters in this series seem to have a better one. Jack Garrett has a wonderful marriage with 6 kids, while Simmons has a beautiful wife and 4 cute little kids. The other, Mae and Monty were still single. The one with a bit darker personal life is Clara. She married once but lost his husband, I don’t know the story yet, but I guess it was because of her job. It traumatized her. Clara left the job once to travel the world before re-unite with the IRT unit in episode 1.

The show is now reaching its 8th episode and on their way to the 9th. And then there’s a question, will it end up like Suspect Behavior? It was started with a solid rating. The acting itself was a bit average for me, to be honest, and they obviously can do more with the storyline. But I’m curious about the character development  because we haven’t seen much of it in the previous 8 episodes. So yeah, I think the show deserve more chance.

Hannibal - Rôti

Here is some picture from Hannibal episode 11, Rôti

A little about Will Graham

Will Graham, seorang profiler yang bekerja untuk FBI di Behavior Science Unit. Dia punya kemampuan khusus yaitu bisa membayangkan dan merekaulang sebuah kasus pembunuhan di dalam hati kepalanya. Dia bisa mengetahui isi kepala dari seorang pelaku kejahatan, dia seakan-akan bisa masuk ke kepala pelakunya. Tapi, apa kita udah tahu semua tentang si Will Graham ini? Coba liat beberapa fakta menarik tentang dia, check it out!

• Waktu kecil ia ikut ayahnya bekerja di galangan kapal
• Ia bekerja sebagai detektif yang menangani kasus pembunuhan (homicide detective) dan memperbaiki mesin kapal, sebelum akhirnya masuk FBI dan mengajar di FBI Academy.
• Will mengidap Asperger Syndromm, yaitu gangguan spektrum autisme, sehingga membuatnya tidak nyaman jika dihadapkan pada interaksi sosial.
• Will sering merasa tidak nyaman melihat mata lawan bicaranya. Seperti ia pernah berkata "Eyes are distracting. You see too much, you don't see enough ... So yeah, I try to avoid eyes whenever possible"
• Ia sering mengalami sakit kepala, mimpi buruk *sangat buruk, mungkin*, dan berkeringat banyak saat malam (Hyperhidrosis).
• Waktu bicara dengan orang lain yang ia nggak percaya, Will suka mengatur kacamatanya supaya frame kacamata menghalangi pandangannya, jadi dia ggak harus melihat mata lawan bicaranya.
• Dia ngga pernah kenal sama ibunya.
• Will anak tunggal

Let Hannibal Will Graham get inside your mind!

Review Serial Baru - Hannibal

Setelah menunggu sekian lama, dengan iklan yang sangat menggoda yang udah ditayangin sebulan sebelum season pemiere-nya, akhirnya serial ini tayang juga.. Yaps, Hannibal, serial yang tokohnya diadaptasi dari buku Thomas Harris, Red Dragon ini, emang sukses bikin saya penasaran dari awal penayangan iklannya.

Serial ini menceritakan tentang seorang "special agent", William "Will" Graham (Hugh Dancy) , seorang dengan kemampuan khusus sehingga bisa membayangkan dengan jelas gimana cara pembunuh itu beraksi. Sayangnya, dia memiliki satu kekurangan, dia itu nggak stabil. Dia sering banget dihantui mimpi buruk dari kasus-kasus yang ditanganinya itu sehingga boss nya, Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) ingin dia konsultasi sama psikolog. Disitulah dia ketemu sama yang namanya Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), seorang pembunuh yang suka makan daging/organ korbannya alias kanibal. Nah disinilah dimulai serunya..

Serial ini premiere di Asia pada tanggal 9 April kemarin dan tayang setiap hari Selasa di AXN jam 9. Jadi sekarang di Asia udah tayang 3 episode, yaitu Apertif, Amuse-Bouche, dan Pottage. Di Amerika seniri, tempat serial ini berasal, udah tayang 4 episode, tiga episode di atas ditambah Coquilles yang merupakan episode 5. Episode 4 di skip karena waktu itu bertepatan dengan kejadian bom Boston.

Serial ini cocok banget buat semua yang suka ketegangan. Agak serem di beberapa bagian tapi secara keseluruhan serial ini asik ditonton. Cukup menghibur dan yah... Aksi Hannibal dan Will emang patut dilihat gimana kelanjutannya. Buat yang penasaran dan pengen nonton, belum telat kok, baru 3 episode yang tayang di Asia.. Enjoy..

Screenshot of Trauma episode 11 "Tunnel Vision"

Rabbit almost get a weapon from the bank robber's girlfriend when he try to treat him


 

 



Rabbit touch one of FBI agent's face with with his bloodied hands.



 





Nancy must face her claustrophobia while treating a construction worker who has fallen.