It’s been enterprise as standard for the Behavioral Evaluation Unit (BAU) within the six months which have handed when Prison Minds: Evolution Season 18 picks up.
“The BAU have been nonetheless operating and gunning and getting it achieved and ‘Wheels up in 20′ and so they by no means cease,” Paget Brewster, who stars as Emily Prentiss, tells TV Insider.
Rejoining that blend for an episode this season is Matthew Grey Gubler, reprising his position as Dr. Spencer Reid. (Scheduling has stored Gubler and Daniel Henney, whose characters have been each nonetheless with the workforce when the unique Prison Minds run ended after 15 seasons on CBS in 2020, offscreen of the revival so far.)
“You’ll see Prentiss and Reid choose up the place they left off. Reid was a really huge a part of the workforce. Sadly, he’s not again for good, however he does come again to the workforce when he’s wanted, and that, I believe, is one thing that the followers are going to be actually enthusiastic about,” Brewster teases. “I believe they’re going to be very pleased to see why Reid pops up and the way that story performs out. I’ve to be very cagey. I’ve to be so cagey.”
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Working collectively once more was “the identical because it at all times was,” she says. “I hear individuals say that, and I used to be at all times like, ‘Oh, come on. Time passes.’ Look, I went grey. However no, these individuals who you’ve been mates with for nearly 20 years, individuals that you simply’ve labored with 9, 10 years typically, I don’t need to say it’s like driving a motorcycle. It’s not like driving a motorcycle. It actually feels such as you went to your highschool reunion and your soccer workforce all obtained collectively over a beer and it’s outdated occasions. It simply seems like he by no means left. It’s a seamless — his relationship with everybody onscreen and offscreen is identical in a great way. It’s comfy, and it’s pleasant and it’s fulfilling. And I want we might have him extra, however he’s busy. He’s doing that Einstein‘s grandson factor.” (Gubler’s new CBS drama, Einstein, has been ordered to sequence however delayed to the 2026-2027 season.)
Serial killer Elias Voit (Zach Gilford) was attacked in jail on the finish of Season 17, however trailers and a synopsis reveal he survived. Now, it’s a matter of coping with his community of serial killers taking extra harmless lives.
The creepiest one? “The spiders,” says Paget Brewster. “That was gross. That was within the first episode of the primary season on Paramount+, the man the place Aisha [Tyler] and I have been standing within the trailer and noticed this {photograph} of the man that had been poisoned from the within out. Pay attention, all the Unsubs are disturbing and they’re brilliantly written by our writers on the route of our showrunner, Erica Messer. She has a forged iron abdomen. It’s some disturbing stuff, nevertheless it’s what the individuals need. It’s what the present’s about, and the truth that they’ll maintain developing with these psychopathies and UnSubs is fascinating to me. I couldn’t consider that many creeps, however I really like saying their strains.”
As we’ve seen over time, Voit actually will get underneath Rossi’s (Joe Mantegna) pores and skin — after what he did to him (kidnapping, and many others.), who can blame him? Final season, Rossi even hallucinated Voit, although it did appear he closed the door on that within the finale. Now, after the assault on Voit, which we couldn’t assist however marvel if Rossi might have had a hand in or at the least there could possibly be a query of if he did, how apprehensive is Prentiss for him going into this season?
“It’s extraordinarily regarding. They’re the elder workforce members, they’re the boss figures for that workforce. And to see Dad sort of dropping it a little bit bit is regarding,” admits Brewster. “After which he’s additionally being questioned by the FBI’s Inner Affairs Division. So he’s been pushed to his restrict and Prentiss is anxious, but additionally sort of pushy. She’s sort of robust love poking him within the chest to get again to doing what he must do as a result of I believe they know one another effectively sufficient to know she is usually a ache in his ass, however she’s really simply making an attempt to help him and maintain him going and let him know he’s the most effective at what he does.”
She continues, “I really like their scenes collectively. I really like the best way they speak to one another and push one another and help one another. I believe it’s a gorgeous relationship. And Joe Mantegna, he’s a prince of a person. Should you get to spend 5 minutes with Joe Mantegna, your life will probably be higher ceaselessly. He’s a dreamboat.”
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Prison Minds: Evolution, Season 18 Premiere, Thursday, Could 8, Paramount+