Rarely do I actually have anything bad to say about a TV show (as I only rarely watch them), but this show has got to be among the worst things produced in a long time. I started watching it because I had nothing better to do on Saturday Nights (as I had a girfriend and she worked that night), so I thought I would give it a shot.
Now I must preface what I am about to say by asserting that I am NOT some Christian fundamentalist or cultural reactionary. I like slasher films, I like serial killer movies. I have read books on many serial killers and find them intriguing... with that said, I must point out that I think that Profiler glorifies serial killers. The show has a tendency to substitute the idea of profiling a killer for explaining his actions. I know that deep down inside we all want to know that serial killers are not random and that they can be understood, but they can't, and this show pushes that too far.
The show either sympathizes with the killer by giving him "reasons" for what he does (like the one with the shrewish mother) which tend to be overly simplified, or it glorifies them by making almost every serial killer out to be some deranged genius. Again, I normally would never say any of this stuff, because these arguments are typically used to censor films. But in the case of this show I simply can't understand it any other way. Also, the acting and stories are pretty bad (hence, I have officially stopped watching it).
3 out of 12 found this helpful