Machismo

Season 1, Episode 19, Aired
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The BAU travels to Mexico to aid in the capture of a serial killer who has targeted elderly women.
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    7.0
    "Good"
    By cavanagh15, May 27, 2011 Report Abuse
    Every time this show takes a case into Mexico I feel like Im watching the same episode over and over again. The writers continue to make reference to how in Mexico things often relate to family or some weird Mexican tradition that we cannot relate to. Once again (for the second episode in a row) the profile was incorrect for most of the episode. I didnt mind how it was wrong in "Everyones Watching" but that was because I was more into the plot. This storyline just seems recycled. If they plan to go out of the country - stop picking the same old desert scenes of Mexico and using the Mexican tradition as the baseline of the episode. I dont think I was going to like any episode that followed the blockbuster of the one before this one, but this episode was one of the worst of the first season.moreless

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  • How to spend weekend..

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    By Parricida, May 27, 2011 Report Abuse
    Oh - I cannot say it was not good storyline - the story has its message and very strong way of telling it but it was a message inside a cultural limits and maybe it makes sense when seeing it in America, but here in Europe it just felt like a distance as we do not have that problem. Ok.. the episode - scenery change. And the story before the case about Hotchner - that will get interesting, I am sure.

    The case itself had some turns but again, I think they have had episode what concentrated more on the profile than this.. That seemed to be another char story, like last one, this time giving Greenaway a change to shine.moreless

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  • I found this one pretty dull with a predictable plot and an even more predictable unsub as the team travels to Mexico to help in the hunt for a serial killer who targets elderly women.moreless

    6.5
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    By Lady_Lancaster, May 27, 2011 Report Abuse
    The twelfth rape and murder in two years of an elderly woman in Mexico sends the BAU to look at the case. The local police captain, however, who is already known to Gideon, warns that the usual profiling methods are unlikely to work in a place like this. The BAU's job is made more difficult when they receive little or no co-operation from locals and they find out that their chief suspect, the son of the latest victim, is a homosexual, but very firmly in the closet as such an admission would mean more than a little trouble for such a man if he were to be placed in a local prison.

    A further hinderance is that the women of the town are unwilling to talk but the team are sure that they know more than they are letting on. With the help of Elle, who speaks Spanish fluently, they are able to extract a little more information and continue with their theory of a serial killer in spite of those in local authority insisting that it is nothing of the sort. Finally, the necessary breakthrough is made and the case is solved but at a cost to Hotch who is having trouble at home with a disgruntled Haley who is angered at the amount of time he spoends away from her and their young son, Jack.

    No doubt a lot of fans really liked this one, but I'm afraid that I can't say I was one of them.moreless

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  • I'm still not sure I know why they were in Mexico. Did the captain guy ask them to come?

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    By StwbrryCSI, Jan 19, 2011 Report Abuse
    Other than not knowing why they were there to begin with it was a very good episode.
    I loved Elle's part in it, they were able to show some of her skills and give her a little backstory without compleatly centering the episode on her. I think what was unsaid might be even more important than what was said, she obviously had a powerful conection with the girls as she talked with them.
    I was a little disspointed in the small amount of screentime that Morgan was given, especially with Garcia, those two go so great together.
    I loved the endding with the girls all coming out of the bushes with sticks having beat him to death. He got what he deserved. I was a little surprised that they weren't charged at all. in the states they would be charged with manslaughter.
    Overall a really good episode.moreless

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  • Good show indeed

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    By JPPT1974, Jan 19, 2011 Report Abuse
    Love the show as the team heads to Mexico with
    An elderly woman that was recently murdered and all fingers
    Point towards the son who is also homosexual as the team
    Finds out that he had an arguement with his uncle and
    Discover all kinds of skeletons on the closet. Loved it when
    Elle tried to speak spanish but isn't latino despite her name.

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    • "Machismo" is prominently exhibited or excessive masculinity. As an attitude, machismo ranges from a personal sense of virility to a more extreme male chauvinism. Edit
    • It is revealed in this episode that Elle's mother is Cuban and is fluent in Spanish. Edit
    • Despite her last name, Garcia is not very proficient with Spanish nor is she of Hispanic or Latino descent (she assumed her stepfather's surname as a child). Edit

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    • Morgan: What's all this?
      Deputy Borquez: Día de los Muertos.
      Reid: Day of the Dead. A three-day Latin holiday where souls of dead relatives are said to return to earth to enjoy the pleasures that they once knew of.
      Deputy Borquez: It sounds like he was reading that out of a book.
      Morgan: No, trust me. He always sounds like that.
      Reid: Actually, I was reading. I picked this pamphlet up at the airport.

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    • Capt. Navarro: There is a very bad man killing women in my district, and I've known this for a very long time, and so far no one will believe me or help stop him. So if I have to play politics to protect the women of this city, then that is a very small price to pay, don't you agree? Edit

    • Gideon: It's the Chikatilo Syndrome.
      JJ      : The what?
      Reid: Andre Chikatilo, one of the most prolific serial killer of the 20th century. By the time they found him, he had killed more than 50 people.
      Gideon: He was no more experienced than any average serial killer, but he lived in the Soviet Ukraine. The Soviets were convinced the serial killer is a uniquely American phenomenon. Inevitable result of... (in a Russian accent) decadent capitalism.

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    • When Elle enters the room and finds the mummified remains of the mother, apart from the Spanish she's speaking, the scene is nearly a copy of the famous scene from Psycho when Vera Miles thinks she's speaking to Norman Bates' mother but turns the chair around to reveal a mummified corpse. Edit
    • This episode may have been partially inspired by the real-life serial murders in the Mexican city of Cuidad Juarez. More than 100 women have disappeared from there in the last decade. Some of them have been found murdered. The cases are unsolved and some human rights groups say the authorities are not doing enough to protect women. Unlike in this episode, however, most of the women who have disappeared from Juarez were young factory workers (these factories are called maquiladoras). Edit

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