Zugzwang
- Episode aired Jan 16, 2013
- TV-14
- 41m
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8.6/10
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When Reid discovers that his girlfriend has been kidnapped by her stalker, he and the BAU team band together to find her before it's too late.When Reid discovers that his girlfriend has been kidnapped by her stalker, he and the BAU team band together to find her before it's too late.When Reid discovers that his girlfriend has been kidnapped by her stalker, he and the BAU team band together to find her before it's too late.
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Honestly, I can't take criticism of a TV show if the writer can't be bothered to proofread for spelling errors or use proper grammar.
Ending was the only part worth watching in this episode. The rest was simply poor and very, very trivial. Well, Michelle Trachtenberg was nice, and did everything she could to look psychopathic. Matthew Gray Gubler delivered his part as gracefully as usual. But. The plot was a disaster, so predictable and plain, and totally unbelievable! It was stupid from the beginning, when Reid first heard about stalker and did not do anything about it, but it got much more stupid with all the soapy garbage like "you will never have HIM" or "and now tell her you don't love her". I wanted to hide under my bed from all these pathetics. I love the show, and season 8 is good, and I will just try to wipe this episode out of my memory.
From the very title of this episode, which is both explained incorrectly and mispronounced, everything about this episode made me tear out my hair in frustration.
The show has repeated continuity errors over the seasons, but to have such blatantly jarring ones just a few episodes apart really insults the audience's intelligence.
Reid said he was reaching out to a geneticist because of his headaches, suddenly in this episode he says they "met" when she wrote him a letter complimenting one of his articles. He never knew her full name, yet they conversed through letters. Maeve is initially portrayed as somewhat of an agoraphobic, afraid to leave the house because of her stalker, which works as explanation as to why she is always at home, readily available for Reid to reach by way of phone booth. So how did she come to these letters? What good to pseudonyms do when the address is your home?
In 8x10 at the restaurant, Reid says the reservation is under his name. Suddenly in "Zugzwang" she was the one to make the reservations, because the writers needed a way for the fiancé to find her. So much bad writing in this, it also makes it hard for the actors to do their job and portray the characters authentically.
Also there are too many similarities to the Lila Archer case in episode 1 for this storyline to work.
I wish CM had ended with Season 6.
I cry my eyes out! I could not believe it! I was so in to the story that everything took me by surprise, it was something different, I did not expect it to end like that. I totally turn my brain off, somehow I connected with Reid, I was feeling everything that they were feeling. The story, the characters, the anticipation, everything was different but so enchanting that it consume me completely, I was amaze with the change in personality of the main character in the story because he is always so present and in this episode he was lost, this shows that love can do a lot of different things to your body, mind and soul. I definitely enjoy the episode but no more sadness please!
Feel ashame for a favorite TV show. The word "Zugzwang" means something else, that Read (doctor Read!) sad in there. "Zugzwang (German for "compulsion to move", pronounced [ˈtsuːktsvaŋ]) is a situation found usually in chess, but also in various other games, where one player is put at a disadvantage because he has to make a move when he would prefer to pass and make no move. The fact that the player must make a move means that his position will be significantly weaker than the hypothetical one in which it was his opponent's turn to move. Sorry for creators of otherwise great show... P.S. season 1 + 7 at least... (got from wikipedia.org) I was disappointed by that actually stupid mistake... :(
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- TriviaThe title is a German word meaning "compulsion to move," and refers to a situation in Chess wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because they must make a move when they would prefer to pass and not move. The fact that the player is compelled to move means that their position will become significantly weaker. A player is said to be "in zugzwang" when any possible move will worsen their position.
- GoofsBobby tells Hotch and Rossi that when Maeve made the reservation at the restaurant, he showed up too. Only Maeve didn't make the reservation, Reid did.
- Quotes
Dr. Spencer Reid: [opening, voiceover] "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
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- 41m
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- 16:9 HD
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