The long-running procedural drama concluded its original 15-season run on CBS with exactly 324 episodes . While the series originally ended in early 2020, its continued popularity on streaming platforms—racking up over 24 billion minutes streamed in a single year—led to the current revival series, Criminal Minds: Evolution . Show Overview & Legacy Original Run: 2005–2020 (15 Seasons, 324 Episodes).
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The series is well-known for its rotating ensemble cast, with some members staying for nearly the entire 15-year run: 'Criminal Minds' Reboot Is More Amber Fossil Than
Criminal Minds: Evolution premiered in 2022 on Paramount+ as a "16th season," shifting to a more mature, serialized format compared to the "case-of-the-week" style of the original network run. Key Cast & Characters " shifting to a more mature
Follows the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) , an elite team of profilers who use psychological analysis to hunt serial offenders, known as "UnSubs" (unknown subjects).