Although I'm given to understand that Jenna Elfman is a Scientologist so they're both rather weird.
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I had a confrontational issue with him many years ago. He was verbally abusive and way out of line. All about something really small.

with Jeremy Clarkson on the new Top Gear variation.

I just can't stomach serial killer mass atrocity porn and with this show, it seems the grislier the better. At least the CSI series had some science to go along with whatever far-fetched murder story line. CM just seemed to revel in gore.

For CM, it isn't that violence and grisly gore to top grisly gore is a necessary aspect to telling the story, it IS THE WHOLE STORY.

Some people may not see the distinction, but I surely do.

if I can stand to watch the rest. Often, I can't. I live on crime docs, so it's not the murder-solving part that turns me off with Criminal Minds, it's the the gore.

I love horror, slasher movies and gore (especially the technical aspect of it) but cannot stand extended scenes of torture and pain inflicted on a helpless victim. Especially if you pretty much know they are going to die.

I like my horror with a bit of an escapist wink. I think that's why zombie gore is so popular-zombies=humans without pain or souls. I know that's not how violence works in the real world.

My mother is addicted to DiscoveryID which is constant reenactments of true crime. I call it the "and then something horrible happened" channel or "the woman-killing channel". On that channel the gore is usually tasteful, but there's plenty of pain/screaming/sadness to it all. With the added horror that the event you are watching actually happened.

The show that did it right was HANNIBAL. They had gore but it was more artistic and operatic rather than exploitive.

The shows on ID are becoming pretty good; most of them skip the violence porn and instead focus on procedure and forensics, and the victims are treated like the real human beings they were, not objects or people who somehow don't matter (this is a big change, especially when the victim was a sex worker and/or a drug problem).

I just hate the recreations with the extended screaming and pleading...even when they don't show it graphically.

Oddly enough, it's the series about people who survived horrible crimes that linger on recreating the event. I skip those.

I enjoy the show, but for reasons you said, I make a point to miss the first five minutes of it, as that always seems to be the viscerally disturbing sequence. Maybe I'm just getting too old for that level of violence on-screen.

commit not just serial murders, but grotesque sexual torture. That's why I had to stop watching it after just a few episodes, even though I rather liked two of the characters (Spencer Reid and the computer girl, whose name I can't remember).

Mandy Patinkin left.

He was the only reason I watched it.

didn't fight back. I know some of them couldn't, but none of them ever did. I stopped watching partly because of that.

I was home sick one day and started watching a CM marathon, thinking if it had Patinkin in it, it would be a good quality show. I quit after a few episodes. Showing a homeless guy tied up and screaming while being burned alive was the last straw. Definitely full of gratuitous violence, grisly deaths and sadistic torture.

struck gold here accidentally, as would anyone else who would have been targeted by this twerp for abuse.

A VIP who is known to have lack of self-control and anger management issues can become targeted by lawsuit-happy con artists looking to cash in, against him and anyone or entity who gives him sanction.

He needed to move on anyway. 12 years is long enough. Maybe this was his way of getting out of his contract. If this is the whole story, he should be able to continue working. His statement was decent.

DC-area channel 66-1 runs hour after hour of "Criminal Minds." The checks will never stop coming in.

As I write, you can binge watch it right now:

Schedule - ION Television

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for being on two episodes of Seinfeld 20 years ago.

I like Criminal Minds but I never really liked him.

At first I thought it was a version of Germany's U Boat fleet. Kept looking for a naval warfare episode. Not there.

I don't like the show for many reasons, but "unsub" is easily number one.

I didn't even know

Of course he gets fired.

My assumption: production company's lawyers tell the company: if you don't take action against the person committing assault - regardless who it is - that you will be at great risk for a costly law suit - that you could lose. (duh.)

Kicking the writer? Physically kicking another person? As an adult? Really? Yes, it happens - but it is assault.

"This show had writers?"

with Reid, Garcia and Paget Brewster's character.