The sixteenth season of the American police procedural crime drama television series Criminal Minds, subtitled Evolution, follows members of the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) as they are faced with a network of serial killers built during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a revival of the 2005 series which ended in 2020. The season premiered on November 24, 2022 on Paramount+ in the U.S. and on
Disney+ in other regions on November 25, 2022. In January 2023, Evolution was renewed for another season. Filming began in January 2024.
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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.
#1 | 11/24/2022Just Getting Started4.0/5 (with 4 votes)
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.
#2 | 11/24/2022Sicarius3.7/5 (with 3 votes)
As the team hunts an UnSub who severs spinal cords, they uncover a clue from their last case that points to a serial killing network. To figure out how big this network is, Rossi has to convince a reluctant Garcia to do the one thing she doesn’t want: come back to the BAU.
#3 | 12/01/2022Moose4.0/5 (with 3 votes)
At the heart of the serial killing network is Elias Voit. Dangerous psychopath. Manipulative narcissist. Loving father and husband. In order to find him, the team must find all of his kill kits. But one is missing, and the path leads to a bomb in the middle of Washington, D.C.
#4 | 12/08/2022Pay-Per-View3.9/5 (with 3 votes)
The BAU hunts for the next connection to the serial killer network when they pursue a home invasion team. Alvez and Garcia convince Tyler Green to submit a cognitive interview to unlock his memories of Sicarius.
#5 | 12/15/2022Oedipus Wrecks3.8/5 (with 2 votes)
A surprising connection forces Deputy Director Bailey to ask the BAU to take a case involving young D.C. socialites who are bitten by a sadistic UnSub. But when the case turns political, the BAU finds themselves in the crosshairs from a high-powered senator. The team is led to a second shipping container that’s rigged to blow.
#6 | 01/12/2023True Conviction3.5/5 (with 2 votes)
The explosion looks to have exposed the true mastermind behind Sicarius, but all is not what it seems. Is someone taking the fall for these deadly actions? The BAU is determined to seek the truth.
#7 | 01/19/2023What Doesn’t Kill Us3.5/5 (with 2 votes)
With the fate of the Sicarius investigation hanging in the balance, the BAU takes a case in West Virginia, where an UnSub practices his own twisted form of Old Testament vengeance.
#8 | 01/26/2023Forget Me Knots4.0/5 (with 3 votes)
Voit’s internal struggles with himself lead him to a desperate kidnapping. But Rossi’s obsession brings the BAU closer to the truth than they’ve ever been.
#9 | 02/02/2023Memento Mori4.5/5 (with 2 votes)
Rossi will go to any lengths to prove that Elias Voit is Sicarius. But Voit turns Rossi into his own worst enemy, putting his future at the BAU in jeopardy.
#10 | 02/09/2023Dead End3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
With Rossi in Voit’s clutches, he grapples with the limits of his technical know-how and mental strength. As the BAU tightens their grip on Voit, he reveals just how far he’s willing to take his deadly crusade.