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Criminal Minds - Seasons 1-3

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It's less expensive (at least as of today) to buy the three seasons individually from Amazon. About $10 less. I know I'm not giving a useful review about the series but I'm trying to save others a few dollars. Please don't flame me because this isn't a good review.

This perhaps is the best written, well acted, and most compelling television crime show since the advent of Kojack broke through in the late 60's and completely changed the genre of Crime Shows on the Tube.

Other than Manny and Joe, none of these actors have ever had much exposure to the public at large, and yet each of them carry their weight with sincerity, glib humour, and a worldliness that literally makes you feel glad to know them.

The writing on this show is some of the best I have ever seen, and the unique cinematography and special effects are not just gimics to tickle one's fancy, but rather play a crucial role in the plot of the episode.

My only concern is the level of graphic violence the show exhibits from time to time, which ironically motivated Manny Patankin to quit after two successful seasons in his equal disdain for all the blood, torture, and guts. I actually enjoy the "suspense and mystery" aspects of the plot lines, rather than the episodes that depict cutting someone up like in a slaughter house in the outskirts of the Chicago Butcher district.

I hope the show will evolve into more of the analytical aspects of criminal profiling, and move away from this graphic stuff that is totally unneccessary for a great episode to please.

Alfred Hitchcock was the master at presenting gruesome crimes without all the paint by numbers blood and guts, and as a huge fan of his career, the writers of this great TV show could take a few lessons in restraint, and be inspired by his wisdom and creativity.

This is, however, a FIVE STAR PLUS DVD collection and I highly recommend it for its intelligent, suspenseful, and utterly entertaining writing and acting.

I've just recently started watching this show and I have to say it's a fantastic show. There are many episodes that I haven't seen yet so I definately would like to get the season DVD sets. However, could someone please explain to me why the Sesaon 1-3 Boxed Set costs more than the individual first 3 Season Boxed Sets combined? The list price is more and the discounted price is more. That makes no sense. Why would anyone buy this item?

Criminal Minds is one of my favorite shows- ever. I just don't understand how Amazon prices these items. Right now it's listed for $101, in May, I bought mine for $45 (BRAND NEW, shipped by and from amazon). I just don't get it.

Anyway. Thanks for the deal.

I only started watching this show a couple months ago, and I'm an addict. The stories are compelling, and it's a show I don't mind watching more than once. My only complaint on the whole thing is that there is no 'play all' feature on the DVDs, which isn't that big a deal, but sometimes I just like to put on a DVD and let it run.

I bought the first three seasons of Criminal Minds as a Mother's Day gift to my mother, who just loves psychopathic killer shows for some reason. On the basis of psyco killers alone, Criminal Minds has to be the most well written show on television, with every new episode, there's a new killer with his own idiosyncrasies that is uniquely different than the one before it. The cast of Criminal Minds is largely a group of relative unknowns, minus Joe Mantegna and Shemar Moore of Soul Train these days. Still every member of the cast plays their role perfectly from the forensic analyst to the criminal pathologist. If your like my mother and a fan of psycho killers, I can recommend no show any higher.

This box set is awesome!

This show is awesome!

The only thing that would be better is if it came with a DVD of special things.

The special features on each season are awesome! and the interviews give a lot of insight to the way the show is created.

Totally worth it!!!

I love this series so much and I am so glad that was abe to purchase all three season at a bargin price.
It arrived early and was packaged well.

My home is filled with Criminal Minds television show lovers. We ordered the first three seasons on Amazon. Although we had to return them because a couple of the CD's would not function in either of our DVD players, we are extremely pleased with the refund policy and the business dealings of Skymedia, the company they were purchased through. Thank you so very much to Amazon and Skymedia for being business's of integrity. We would happily purchase on Amazon and Skymedia in the future.

Sincerely,

F.L. Ward

this series is awesome, mind blowing plots, each episode details each individual's gift, they mesh well together, it is addicting, i love the episodes with gideon, must be nice to be able to dissect and profile the unsubs and always be correct, it would be nice if this was a reality and we could catch each unsub that exist before they become serial killers, again this series rocks. i never get tired of reviewing all the episodes over and over again. I think that they all need storylines that depict other aspects of their lives outside the BAU to make it more realistic, only three of the characters have had relationships and those storylines weren't really in any great detail nor was there any feedback or complexity to make you wonder what the outcomes are or would be. i still give it a 10. a must see.