We might lastly get solutions about that particular project Dr. Spencer Reid has been on!
Matthew Grey Gubler is ready to reprise his position as Reid in Felony Minds: Evolution Season 18 in “a part of one … episode,” in accordance with TVLine.
Gubler was a part of the present’s unique full 15-season run on CBS, which led to 2020. It then returned as Evolution on Paramount+ in 2022. Over the primary two seasons of the brand new run, each Reid and Matt Simmons (Daniel Henney) have been the one members of the BAU who have been with the staff on the finish of the unique collection to not return. Each have been stated to be on particular project within the Season 16 premiere, with Deputy Director Bailey (Nicholas D’Agosto) telling Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster) he wasn’t “at liberty to debate” it, and, “if and once they return is solely as much as them. Sadly, we don’t have a say.”
The vagueness of that and any point out to comply with was merely because of the actors’ availability. “I really feel like till I do know [if they’ll be back], I don’t actually wanna deliver up their secret missions as a result of I simply don’t wish to promise one thing that we will’t ship,” showrunner Erica Messer advised TV Insider in February 2023.
Then, forward of the Season 17 premiere, followers started questioning if Gubler could possibly be returning as a result of a photograph of Spencer Reid’s nameplate on a desk in a photograph shared on Joe Mantegna’s Instagram story. Messer confirmed for us that he wouldn’t.
Whoever posted that picture was “strolling via the BAU as much as Rossi’s workplace and held on that nameplate simply lengthy sufficient for it to be a factor,” she defined. “However I’m holding that desk there and I’m holding that nameplate there. It’s all the time staying there so far as I’m involved. In order that’s why you noticed it. You’ll see it all through the present. It’s like, there’s his desk.”
We did find yourself seeing that nameplate in Season 17 when Elias Voit (Zach Gilford) hung out within the BAU’s workplace.
Then, intriguingly sufficient, we seemingly bought information about Reid, with Prentiss telling Jill Gideon (Felicity Huffman) in Season 17 Episode 7 “Piranha” that he was on sabbatical. However as Messer advised us after, that wasn’t essentially an replace.
“I believe we mentioned what Prentiss would say to Jill, and it simply felt like particular project felt too ‘within the know,’” she stated. “That’s provided that you should know. You’re not going to inform that to any person who’s not within the unit or not with the BAU or FBI or something. So sabbatical felt just like the most secure factor to say, even when it’s not the precise reality.”
So meaning when Reid pops up, we might very effectively study what that particular project was. Or possibly there received’t be time as a result of what brings him again if it’s not associated to that or he received’t have the ability to share.
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Felony Minds: Evolution, Season 18, TBA, Paramount+