Criminal Minds Season 16 — or, as Paramount+ is calling it, Criminal Minds: Evolution — is back on Thursday, November 24 with two back-to-back episodes. If you don’t have Paramount+, the first episode can be seen on CBS for one night only, that same night. Here’s how the premiere episode “Just Getting Started” is described:
When a family annihilator abducts a teen girl, the Behavioral Analysis Unit works the case on either side of the country to save her. But an unlikely connection to a mysterious kit leads to a bigger investigation, and at the center of it is Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness). Written by Erica Messer and directed by Nelson McCormick.
CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION - "Just Getting Started" - Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez and Kirsten Vangsness as Penelope Garcia in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Paramount+
In CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION, the FBI’s elite team of criminal profilers come up against their greatest threat yet, an UnSub who has used the pandemic to build a network of other serial killers. As the world opens back up and the network goes operational, the team must hunt them down, one murder at a time. Original cast members continuing their roles include Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez and Paget Brewster. Zach Gilford joins the dynamic cast as a recurring guest star in a season-long arc.
