Evolution trailer finds the BAU again in motion

After fifteen seasons and 324 episodes, the long-running crime procedural collection Legal Minds got here to an finish in 2020… nevertheless it didn’t take lengthy for rumblings of a revival to emerge. That revival has taken the type of Legal Minds: Evolution, and Paramount+ have launched the primary trailer for the upcoming collection.

Legal Minds: Evolution sees the return of Joe Mantegna as David Rossi, Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez, A.J. Cook dinner as Jennifer “JJ” Jareau, Aisha Tyler as Tara Lewis, Paget Brewster as Emily Prentiss, and Kirsten Vangsness as Penelope Garcia. This time round, the Behavioral Evaluation Unit shall be going up towards “their biggest risk but,” a community of serial killers who’ve been recruited throughout the pandemic by Elias Volt (Zach Gilford), an operations analyst at a world cybersecurity agency with a darkish facet and an obsession with dying.

Whereas talking with Leisure Weekly, Legal Minds showrunner Erica Messer teased how the group has modified since we final noticed them. “We’ve obtained Prentiss, who has now been promoted exterior of the BAU unit chief. She has a brand new place the place she oversees dozens of models. Rossi has taken her place as unit chief, however he’s going by an enormous factor. So he’s sort of in all 5 phases of grief once we meet him within the first two episodes. We are going to study why by the top of the primary hour,” Messer defined. “Alvez [Rodriguez] has been attempting to assist out uncooked scenes, kind of keep native for some time and deal with these circumstances, whereas JJ [Cook] and Lewis [Tyler] have answered each single guide name that they’ve gotten within the final 12 months, which implies loads of nights away from house and dwelling on the highway. The phrase from above, the bureaucrats, is, ‘Do extra with much less.’ I feel we are able to all relate to that as properly. Our groups have been downsized and everyone’s nonetheless obtained the identical quantity of labor to do.” As you possibly can inform from the Legal Minds: Evolution trailer, not each member of the group has returned as there’s no sight of Spencer Reid (Matthew Grey Gubler) or Matt Simmons (Daniel Henney). Messer mentioned that their characters haven’t gone away and hopes that they may return sooner or later.

The primary two episodes of Legal Minds: Evolution will debut on Paramount+ on November twenty fourth, with CBS additionally broadcasting the primary episode at 10 p.m. ET on the identical day.