The genre of procedural crime drama has littered television with its saturated and exhausting content. While Law & Order takes the cake in that specific category, Criminal Minds ranks a close second to the ’90s series. Created by Jeff Davis, the latter was the first-ever project on television that delved deeply into the lives and works of professional criminal profilers or “mind hunters”.
Featuring an ensemble cast, Criminal Minds is more than merely a show with a penchant for showcasing a criminal’s disturbed psyche and hazy morality. With a 15-year-long run, not only is the police procedural heavily decorated among the audience but also concerned with creative originality in a medium that was overshadowed for far too long by the more glamorous film industry.
The Criminal Minds Actor Who Dated Taylor Swift
The inimitable genius with an IQ of 187 and an eidetic memory, Spencer Reid made Criminal Minds iconic with his unique goofiness and attachment toward interrupting everyone’s sentences with facts. But while Dr. Spencer Reid made an everlasting impression on his audience, Matthew Gray Gubler did the same with his dating choices after he was seen going out with Taylor Swift.
The pair were first spotted at the pop star’s Fourth of July celebrations in 2013. Matthew Gray Gubler and Taylor Swift dated for a brief period despite Gubler describing himself as a self-proclaimed romantic at heart.
Speaking to Glamour in a 2015 interview, the actor revealed:
I don’t go on a ton of dates, but when I do, I try to make dates really spectacular. I fall in love with wonderful people and people that can’t be replicated. They are completely unique individuals, and those people are really rare and you can’t let them go. You gotta be friends with them forever because if I’m going to date someone, it’s a real big thing for me.
Now, Taylor Swift is involved in a high-profile relationship with the widely celebrated NFL athlete Travis Kelce who plays for the Kansas City Chiefs. Meanwhile, Matthew Gray Gubler does not seem to be dating anyone currently.
Criminal Minds Dominates the Television Arena
When it comes to criminal profiling, no other name comes to mind more readily than that of Dr. Spencer Reid. Portrayed by the Emmy-winning actor Matthew Gray Gubler, his role in Criminal Minds established the cornerstone and a fledgling curiosity among fans regarding the role of a criminal profiler.
However, in the broader context, Criminal Minds helped carve out a niche in genre television on its own based on an original concept and unique creative outlook that had never been tried before. The police procedural became more popular than its contemporaries by a mile due to its consistently good content quality and ability to hold the audience’s imagination captive for 15 years.
However, it was the skills of the cast and the brains of the operation behind the episodes of Criminal Minds that made the series such an unparalleled success. The procedural crime drama left behind such a powerful impact on modern pop culture space that Paramount+ later picked it up for a spin-off series titled Criminal Minds: Evolution.
Criminal Minds is now streaming on Paramount+.
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