Why I Do Not Read the Jacket Copy, #446

[mrissa]

"Joining them this season is Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster), who quickly learns there's nothing these agents would rather do than profile murderers and put them away!" -- the DVD box for my new Season 2 Criminal Minds DVDs

Now tell me honestly: isn't that on the list of lamest things ever? Seriously. It makes it sound like Mandy Patinkin is skipping around the plane singing, "We're gonna get a murderer, we're gonna get a murderer, wheeeee!"

Having tried to write synopses (shudder), I have some sympathy for the folks whose job it is to write these little thumbnails, but for heaven's sake.

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Don't these agents have hobbies?

[crimini.livejournal.com]

I never read box copy, either. It always disappoints.

Then again, the biggest challenge is to make it sound attractive to viewers but not grotesque, snappy and sexy without being vulgar, and still get across the positive message that these are the "good guys" vs. "the bad guys".

"Wacky hijinks ensue" would probably not be the best phrase... ^.^

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

But they do fight crime!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, in fact they do. That's part of the point of the show: sometimes there are a million things they would rather do than go catch murderers, but they do it anyway.

[jenfullmoon.livejournal.com]

I hate to say this, but what hobbies? Other than reading or doing magic tricks (if you're Reid), or JJ boinking that dude, they don't seem to have personal lives so much.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have not gotten to JJ and any dude yet. But Morgan dates a lot, Hotch is married with a kid and really seems to like house chores, JJ collects butterflies, Gideon is a birder and enjoys cooking and has a woman in his life who is freaked out by receiving heads in the mail....

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Lots of law-enforcement types seem to be on-the-job 24 hours a day, which doesn't seem to leave much time for hobbies.