Criminal Minds Adam Rodriguez Hints Season 3 Will Leave Fans 'Distraught' By The Finale

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00:00So how is season 18 or season 3 of Evolution different from what came before?

00:05Oh man, you know, I honestly just feel like now that we're on Paramount Plus,

00:09we've got this latitude to do so much more with the show,

00:12and it's just more exciting every time because we're figuring out.

00:17It's almost like having a box of new toys,

00:18and we're getting to figure out what we can do with the new toys,

00:22and those toys are basically space and time, you know,

00:25room to give the show to breathe, space to examine characters' lives more deeply,

00:31and even to get more deep into the minds of the criminals that we're after.

00:35Well, I was going to ask, how has the switch to Paramount affected the show?

00:38Because obviously you're cursing a lot more.

00:40I was re-watching the show last night, and there's a lot of it,

00:42which you didn't really get in the original,

00:44but is there anything else that you felt as an actor that, like,

00:46you can feel the difference and this has made the show even better?

00:49Yeah, I think a lot more.

00:50I mean, listen, it's great to be able to speak the way people really speak,

00:54especially when you're doing a job like that.

00:56You know, I mean, you encounter the kind of things that people that are doing our jobs

01:00or detectives encounter on a daily,

01:03and there's no doubt you're going to drop, you know, an F-bomb

01:06or some other expletive just in the course of speaking about it.

01:09So it feels great to be able to do that authentically,

01:12and it makes it feel more, you know, more realistic.

01:18You know, it just feels more real.

01:19So it's great as an actor.

01:21It's great for the writers that get to, you know, really do these things

01:24and make them feel more believable.

01:26I think it also gives us a chance, like I said,

01:29to not have to squeeze so much story in between commercials

01:34and, you know, being worried about time constraints.

01:36And so I think we've all enjoyed this new freedom that we have on Paramount Plus

01:40and hopefully the audiences too.

01:42I mean, I know it takes a little while to get used to the new format,

01:45and it's a little more serialized now,

01:47but I think we're really fine-tuning the formula

01:50and, like, finding the thing that everybody loves,

01:53where we have the freak of the week, as Aisha likes to call them.

01:57And so we've got the freak of the week where we, you know,

02:01we track down one killer and put them away,

02:03and we get the satisfaction of that.

02:05But doing it in a serialized way also gives us the luxury

02:08of having an overarching story that, you know,

02:11just allows for more exploration for the actors and the writers.

02:17What can you tease about what unfolds?

02:18How does the story end this season?

02:20Does it end on a cliffhanger?

02:21Will fans be satisfied?

02:22Are we going to be, like, distraught until we get the next season?

02:25I know you guys have already been renewed,

02:27so at least we don't have to worry about that.

02:29I'll just say I think you'll be distraught until you get the next season.

02:32Okay.

02:33Hopefully always.

02:34Love that.

02:34Hopefully we always leave you there.

02:36Yeah.

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