It took me an hour to write this

Last night I was about to crack open The Great Gatsby and finish reading the first chapter. I have already read it and I really liked it so I wasn't worried about the suicidal feeling that usually accompanies the reading of my school books (When we were reading The Grapes of Wrath I was 50 pages into one chapter with 30 more to go and I started crying and threw the book across the room because I hated it so much). But I didn't get around to actually reading until much later, because Madelyn turned on Criminal Minds. Usually I could multi-task and read/watch at the same time, but this one was SO GOOD. It started with the team running into a house, JJ was unconscious on the floor. They start looking for Reid, but he is gone! Turns out he was kidnapped by some crazed murder who has 3 different personalties, one is the real him and he is nice, another is his crazy, super religious father, and the other is an "angel" which is the personalty that kills all the people! Then he started giving Reid drugs and beating him, then he has a seizure and he is apparently dead!!!Then the nice personalty gives him CPR and he is saved!! In the end they find him, Reid shoots the guy, and all is happy! But then, Reid goes back and takes the drugs the guy was giving him! ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!?!?! I couldn't stop watching them! I watched all of the following episodes to see what would happen with the drugs, but there was only 2 more then this crappy show that Madelyn likes came on and I went to bed.
You see, I am addicted to crime dramas. CSIs mostly. I occasionally dabble in Law and Order, but that is usually equivalent to an hour long nap. I have seen every single episode of CSI: Las Vegas, except one, which I decided not to watch one day and then I just got tired of looking at it on my DVR so I deleted it. But literally, that show has been on for like 11 years and I have yet to come across an old episode that I have not seen. One year I spent the ENTIRE summer watching CSI reruns.

I know them all so well that they are pretty much my family. I cried like a baby when Grissom left. I really never got over it. I have refused to accept any new characters. If I met William Peterson, George Eads and Eric Szmanda I would gladly throw away the rest of our list and be the happiest person in the world (p.s. those are their real names. They are much too boring and hard to pronouce for a show, I mean Szmanda!? and how would you even begin to pronouce Eads?). 
But, my devotion was not true, because there were other CSIs out there that I was not watching! How could I miss out on all that murder, blood and gore? Simple answer: I could not. Set DVR to record, select every rerun you could find: I was hooked on CSI: NY.



this picture is adorable. <3

  Not only did it have Lieutenant Dan, I could match each character to a person in Las Vegas, but they were significantly less nerdy and consequently more BA. Plus Det. Don Flack (third one from the right) is totally dreamy. Danny (third form the left) was pretty cool until Lindsey (demon in brown next to him) came and they fell in love and had a baby and now they just generally annoy everyone. Stella (in pink) left but I didn't really like her and her replacement in comparable in annoyness so it isn't that bad.
So now I was getting my fix twice a week, but that was still not enough. Introducing CSI: Miami.

They have had like a million cast changes. Probably due to its extreme popularity for a while and overly dramatic drama. This is the infamous sunglasses show. If I could be granted one CSI-related wish it would be for Natalia Boa Vista (far right) to die in some sort of firey explosion (and stay dead), so she would stop whining and putting my future boyfriend, Ryan Wolfe (next to her), in danger.
So I have all my CSIs, but THEN, one day, I saw a commercial for a NEW show. ABOUT CRIME! I couldn't be bothered with crap like NCIS or Hawaii Five-O, (which they are attempting to bring back for some unknown and stupid reason and replaced CSI: Miami with on Wednesdays and moved Miami to Sundays, whatevs), but this show was looking awesome. And of course, I was right. Make way for: The Mentalist.

Dashing Australian guy (You know how I feel about Australians) coupled with a cast of mudfences to make him even more attractive and one guy that looks like Michael Buble? I'll take that! Plus the main character, Patrick Jane is MEAN! And it's awesome. He has that whole cynical, hating the world outlook that I occasionally adopt (I mean he has a reason to, his family was murdered by a serial killer, but still), so we could totally hang out. He used to be a "Physic" and he would fake people out becasue he was actually just really observant, and he now tricks people into admitting they committed crimes. It is really a fantastic show and you should totally watch it.
For a while, those were my only shows, but, as you already know, I am now hooked on Criminal Minds. I usually didn't watch this show, because it made my mom mad because she thought it would scare me, but after 6 years of CSI, it takes kind of a lot to scare me (Although I will admit to being scared occasionally). But, as mentioned earlier, we only got like 3 actual entertainment channels in Georigia, so we watched a lot of A&E, which shows Criminal Mids reruns!

Which you know because it is actually really really scary. But then, you will stop and wonder, Cayla, you are telling me about all these crime shows, how am I supposed to know when I flip to a channel whether or not it is Criminal Minds? You will know because of this guy:

This is Dr. Spencer Reid, he's really smart and can read super fast. So he is just like me! (totally kidding, he is an actual genius, I am not) Who I was talking about wayyyy at the beginning of this blog. He is the most recognizable character on that that show, or at least I think so. Whenever I would switch to some random channel, I would always wonder which of the 152456286299 crime dramas I was watching, then this kid would pop up and I would always know its Criminal Minds. I still never found out what happened with him and the drugs. I guess I will just have to watch it again tonight :) :) :)
So there you have it, all this time you were thinking that I only have an addiction to the internet and I am healing through the power of God's wrath. But no, much longer ago, through the power of DVR, I had been sucked into the world of crime drama. But, do me a favor, next time one of these shows is on, and you have nothing to do, watch it, because I know you will love. But seriously, check the info on the Criminal Minds episode before you watch it, especially if you are about to go to bed, that show can churn up some pretty terrifying fever dreams, trust me. I'm off to go watch a new episode of CSI: Miami! yayy

Cheers,
Cayla
Future Crime Scene Investigator