Criminal Minds: Behavioral Frenzy (2016 TV Series)

Criminal Minds: Worldwide is an American Police-Procedural Crime-Drama Television Series, and a spin-off of the successful crime series, Criminal Minds, premiering on the CBS Television Network, on March 2, 2016. The initial main cast features Kevin Costner, Tom Welling, Cristin Milioti, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, Elena Satine, and Dylan O'Brien as an elite team in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), solving cases that take place across the world on international soils, by getting into the minds of psychopathic criminals.

Premise
In the initial start of Criminal Minds: Worldwide, the series features FBI Agents Johnathan Coulson, Russel Scott, Selena Gordon, Jacob Ross, Ellie Simons, Krista Grayson, and Ryan Russel as the members of an elite team of criminal profilers in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (Shortened to BAU). The BAU team focuses more on the criminal, called an unsub, short for unknown subject, rather than the actual crime comitted, and uses a certain talent or skill from each agent to profile each criminal, based on patterns of the crime to figure out what the unsub is like and why the unsub commits the crime in order to find his/her pattern and stop the unsub. Unlike the original series, Criminal Minds: Worldwide features the BAU team of Sacremento, California solving crimes and murders around the globe on international soil, instead of just the United States. The series also focuses on the personal life of each character in their hardships in balancing their work life and personal life, and shows how the BAU are like a family and treat eachother as such. A sense of comedic undertone between characters is used to lighten the gravity of the shows intense subject matter.

Main Cast

 * Kevin Costner as Jonathan Coulson, a Senior Supervisory Special Agent and former Chief Unit, and is widely known as one of the best profilers. In the series premiere, he prepared to retire, but the murder of his friend at the hands of serial killer from his past causes him to rethink this. At the end of the second season, he does finally retire and leaves california with his wife, Carry. He later returns in Season 10, when a thought-to-be deceased serial killer from his first case reappears.
 * Tom Welling as Russell Scott, a Supervisory Special Agent and the Unit Cheif of the BAU, who leads the team on their cases. He is a skilled and experienced profiler, but struggles the demands of his work life and personal life, and has a son named Eli with his ex-wife, Monica, who couldn't handle what Scott does for a living, so she divorced Scott and took custody of Eli, still remaining on good terms with eachother, allowing Scott to see Eli on a regular basis. He eventually begins a relationship with Special Agent, Selena Gordon, and the two have a daughter named, Martha, named after Scott's mother.
 * Cristin Milioti as Selena Gordon, a Supervisory Special Agent of the BAU, assigned as an expert in sexual offense crimes, and is a strong-willed and loyal agent. Her father was an officer killed in the line of duty, which sparked her determination in the FBI. Later in the series, she begins a relationship with SSA Scott, and eventually has a child with him, in which she took a short leave during her pregnancy in Season 7, before returning after the baby is born.
 * Sam Jones III as Jacob Ross, a Supervisory Special Agent in the BAU, and a confident and assertive strong everyman agent. Born in Chicago to a black man and white woman, he was a troubled youth after his father died, and regrets many things he did, which landed him in juvie, and joined the FBI because of it, hoping to redeem past sins. Ross is best friends with Scott and has a non profound flirting relationship with tech analyst Ellie simons, but it never goes beyond that.
 * Elena Satine as Kristina "Krista" Grayson, a Supervisory Special Agent that originally acts as the BAU's communication Liason with the media and local police agencies for wherever they travel to, until she takes a promotion at the Pentagon for a short period, in which Ellie permanently filled in for her. When Grayson returns to the BAU, she is promoted to BAU profiler, and now works alongside the team out in the field. After her brother and sister-in-law died during the 9/11 terrorist attack, she took custody of her niece, Alex, who is in a relationship with Russ' sister Melanie. She also had a child named Matt with a detective named Mason Trueman.
 * Dylan O'Brien as Dr. Ryan Russels "Russ", a Supervisory Special Agent, who is extremely intelligent, holding Ph.D.s in mathematics, chemistry, and engineering, and is sarcastic with a quick mind, clever and somewhat impractical, often providing comic relief. The team only introduces him as "Dr. Russels" instead of as an agent like the others, which Scott explains is to make people take him more seriously, due to his young age, and acts as a younger brother to Krista. Near the end of his High School year, he became the guardian to his 10 year old sister Melanie, due to his mothers death and his father being in prison for abusing his children, revealed after Krista finds whip scars on his back. Raising Melanie on his own, he does whatever he can to make sure she ends up alright, often being overprotective, and encourages Melanie's gay relationship with Krista's niece, Alex. Early in the series, when a case forced Russ to watch over an actress, Lila Brooks, while she was being stalked, he developed a relationship with her. In Season 10 they had a child that they named after the BAU's deceased teammate, Danny.
 * Allison Mack as Elliot "Ellie" Simons, the BAU team's technical analyst that stays in her office at the FBI Headquarters in Sacremento, California. She is flamboyant and fun loving and provides the rest of the team with comic relief when they need it. After Krista left the BAU for a short period of time, Ellie permanently took over as the communication liason. When she was 18 years old, she was caught by the FBI with a team of illegal hackers, in which she was given a choice of a life in prison or to join the FBI as an analyst. She has a non-profound flirting relationship with SSA Ross, but it doesn't go beyond that, and is in an actual relationship with the CEO of Triton Industries, Ray Triton.
 * Dylan Sprayberry as Daniel "Danny" Michaels Jr, a member of the BAU, originally a cadet in the academy, first introduced in Season 3 as a recurring character, in which he requested his remedial training be finished with the BAU, under the mentorship of Russ, who chose Danny due to their similar childhoods. At age 11, Danny was raised by his older sister, Jennifer, after their abusive father was arrested for serial killings, but his mother is never mentioned. His sister joined the FBI as a detective, and he later went on to follow in her footsteps. At the end of season 3, he graduated the academy and officialy joined the BAU as a profiler, becoming a main character in Season 4. In the Season 10 finale, he was deadly wounded by a serial killer targeting FBI Agents' families, and used his last breath to shield a young girl. The team got their in time to save the girl and stop the killer, as Danny bled out, and died with the entire BAU team by his side.

Recurring Characters

 * Rowan Blanchard as Melanie Russells, Russ' younger sister, who was raised by her older brother since she was 10 years old, after their mother died of illness and father was sent to prison for abusing them. In season 1 she was 16 years old in her sophomore year. She is an out-going soccer athlete, with basic combat training that her brother taught her, and studies criminology, hoping to follow in her brother's footsteps, and is also the girlfriend of Krista's niece, Alex. After graduating High School in season 3, she joined the FBI Academy and graduated from the academy in Season 5, and occasionally helps them, but Russ is reluctant, being overprotective of her.
 * Willa Holland as Delilah "Lila" Brooks, a hollywood actress, first appearing in Season 1 when the BAU came down to profile a stalker that was after her, in which Russ was assigned to watch over her, and the two developed a romance together. In season 2, when a case takes the BAU back to L.A, they reconcile their romance and start a relationship, and have a long distance relationship, until Season 3, when she takes a role in a TV series in Sacremento so they can be closer. The remain together throughout the series, and in Season 10, she becomes pregnant with a boy, that they name after Danny.
 * Robert Buckley as Mason Trueman, a detective at the Sacremento Police Department in California, the boyfriend, later the husband, of SSA Krista Grayson, and the father of their child, Matt. Krista originally wanted to keep their relationship from the others, but told them, seeing that Mason felt neglected. Krista became pregnant and gave birth in Season 6, and they then got married in Season 7.
 * Kristin Kreuk as Melanie Michaels, Danny's older sister and legal guardian, and an FBI Special Agent, raised on a farm and abused alongside her brother by their father, who was arrested for serial killings, which left her to raise her brother, who joins the FBI Academy to follow in her footsteps. After Danny was murdered, she took a long-term leave of absense from work.
 * Jill Wagner as Monica Stace, SSA Scott's ex-wife and mother to his son, Eli, who divorced him after years of being tired of his work taking a majority of his time, but they did do on good terms and still remain in conctact, and she has no problem with letting Scott see Eli whenever he wants too.
 * G Hannelius as Alexandra "Alex" Grayson, Krista's niece, who was taken in and cared for by Krista, after her parents died in 9/11, when she was young. Introduced in season 2 when she is junior in High School, she begins dating Russ' little sister Melanie.