The third season of Prison Minds: Evolution (and 18th season of Prison Minds general) is at present releasing new episodes for followers with a Paramount+ subscription, and the long-awaited return of Matthew Grey Gubler as Spencer Reid isn’t all that viewers can have fun at this level within the 2025 TV schedule. The crime drama has already been renewed for an additional season, and the behind-the-scenes photograph that reveals who survives Season 3 has me excited for extra causes than simply being assured extra of those characters.
Paramount+ renewed Prison Minds: Evolution for Season 4 earlier than Season 3 even premiered, and a brand new photograph has been launched to point out a really glad forged celebrating getting again to work. Have a look, so long as you don’t thoughts being spoiled on who will probably be again for the subsequent spherical of episodes:
Until any individual is coming again as a hallucination like Voit final season earlier than his large bloody cliffhanger, these are the characters who will survive the Season 3 finale: Joe Mantegna, Aisha Tyler, Kirsten Vangsness, Adam Rodriguez, A.J. Cook dinner, Paget Brewster, and Ryan-James Hatanaka. Will all of them emerge totally intact?
Not essentially for Tyler’s Tara Lewis, Rodriguez’s Luke Alvez, Cook dinner’s JJ, and Brewster’s Emily Brentiss, contemplating that components of their our bodies are obscured within the photograph, however I don’t assume these poses had been chosen as a result of anyone had an arm amputated on the finish of Season 3. It’s enjoyable to take a position, although, since affirmation of who will probably be again doesn’t precisely spoil the remainder of the 2025 episodes.
I’ve my favourite characters of the Prison Minds household, however seeing them on board for Season 4 isn’t what actually obtained me excited. I’m simply used to streaming reveals taking overly lengthy breaks between seasons, starting from Bridgerton to Stranger Issues. (I’m actually, actually lacking Stranger Issues.) Regardless of releasing on Paramount+ and profiting from the streaming freedoms for F-bombs and grotesque twists not attainable on CBS, Evolution has kind of been releasing with the standard hiatus size of a community TV schedule.
Season 2 led to August 2024, and Season 3 kicked off in Might 2025. With Season 4 manufacturing beginning earlier than Season 3 even finishes releasing episodes, I get the sense that we may as soon as once more go months as an alternative of years between the third season finale and fourth season premiere. As any individual whose bread and butter as a tv journalist is usually crime dramas and procedurals, the prospect of a top quality drama like Prison Minds releasing yearly is one thing main to have fun.
The identical appears to be true for HBO Max’s The Pitt as properly, with filming on Season 2 anticipated to start out quickly for an supposed premiere in January 2026. May this be the beginning of a pattern for streaming reveals to launch on a extra common schedule quite than taking lengthy breaks a la Wednesday?
Solely time will inform, however the assure of Season 4 ought to make Season 3 of Prison Minds: Evolution much less tense than if the long run was nonetheless unsure. New episodes launch on Thursdays on Paramount+, with all fifteen seasons of the unique CBS sequence accessible on the streamer as properly.