Evolution trailer finds the BAU again in motion

After fifteen seasons and 324 episodes, the long-running crime procedural sequence Legal Minds got here to an finish in 2020… however 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 sequence.

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 will probably be going up towards “their best menace but,” a community of serial killers who’ve been recruited in the course of 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 crew has modified since we final noticed them. “We’ve acquired 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 means of a giant factor. So he’s type of in all 5 levels of grief once we meet him within the first two episodes. We’ll study why by the top of the primary hour,” Messer defined. “Alvez [Rodriguez] has been making an attempt to assist out uncooked scenes, form of keep native for some time and deal with these circumstances, whereas JJ [Cook] and Lewis [Tyler] have answered each single marketing consultant name that they’ve gotten within the final 12 months, which suggests loads of nights away from dwelling and residing on the street. The phrase from above, the bureaucrats, is, ‘Do extra with much less.’ I feel we will all relate to that as properly. Our groups have been downsized and all people’s nonetheless acquired the identical quantity of labor to do.” As you possibly can inform from the Legal Minds: Evolution trailer, not each member of the crew 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 might return in some unspecified time in the future.

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.