Summary
- Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 3 premieres May 8, 2025, on Paramount+.
- Season 3 dives into the Gold Star group of serial killers.
- Paramount+ renewed Criminal Minds for season 4 in March 2025.
Criminal Minds premiered in 2005 and featured an all-star cast including Mandy Patinkin and Matthew Gray Gubler. Many episodes featured well-known guest stars such as Tim Curry and Amber Heard in memorable and haunting roles, which helped set the show apart from other procedurals. The team members at the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) are sharp and perceptive, which is one reason why it was sad when it seemed like the show was concluding after season 15. Fans cheered when they learned the show would keep going under the name Criminal Minds: Evolution, and there have been two new seasons so far.
While the popular series has two spinoffs, neither has been as successful as the original procedural. Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior aired for one season in 2011, and Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders aired for two seasons from 2016 to 2017. So, when can fans watch Criminal Minds: Evolution season 3, and where will the new and exciting episodes be?
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Where And When To Watch Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 3
Criminal Minds: Evolution season 3 will premiere on Paramount+ on Thursday May 8th, 2025. The season will have 10 episodes, and episodes 2 through 9 will stream on Paramount+ every subsequent Thursday until July 10, 2025. New episodes are said to be available 12:00 a.m. P.T. or 3:00 a.m. ET as that is usually the case.
While Criminal Minds: Evolution is a reboot, season 3 is also sometimes referred to as Criminal Minds season 18 since it continues the original story that began when the show premiered in 2005. While some reboots take a long time and fans have been hoping for more A Nightmare On Elm Street for several years, Criminal Minds season 15 aired in 2020, and the reboot began streaming in 2022.
| Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 3 Episode Number |
Streaming Date On Paramount+ |
|---|---|
| Episode #1 | Thursday May 8th 2025 |
| Episode #2 | Thursday May 15th, 2025 |
| Episode #3 | Thursday May 22nd, 2025 |
| Episode #4 | Thursday May 29th, 2025 |
| Episode #5 | Thursday June 5th, 2025 |
| Episode #6 | Thursday June 12th, 2025 |
| Episode #7 | Thursday June 19th, 2025 |
| Episode #8 | Thursday June 26th, 2025 |
| Episode #9 | Thursday July 3rd, 2025 |
| Episode #10 | Thursday July10th, 2025 |
In March 2025, Deadline reported that Paramount+ renewed Criminal Minds for season 4, which proves the ongoing popularity of the series.
What Will Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 3 Be About?
The Criminal Minds: Evolution showrunner Erica Messer shared some details about season 3 in an interview with Us Weekly. Messer mentioned that the new episodes will feature Gold Star group of serial killers. She said:
“It felt like the minute Voit said Gold Star at the end of season 16 [of Criminal Minds], or season 1 [of Criminal Minds: Evolution], he led us on a new quest. We had to go down that route because he had this deal with the [BAU] director and we had to prove we didn’t want his help. But Voit had a network of killers and we never really solved that.”
Like many dark episodes of Chicago P.D., Criminal Minds has featured more than a few terrifying and disturbing villains, and the Gold Star group is one of the most enduring and mysterious. Messer also talked about Zach Gilford’s killer Elias Voit playing a big part in the new season and said:
“So, this season will be a little bit more diving into that space. And because we have Voit, there’s no reason to reinvent the wheel on what that badness is. He’s given it to us this whole time.”
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Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds centers on cases of the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), a group of elite criminal profilers who analyze the country’s most notorious criminals as they look to anticipate their next moves before they strike again. Starting in 2005, Criminal Minds ran for 15 seasons before getting a revival show, Criminal Minds: Evolution, in 2022.
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- Release Date
- 2005-09-22
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Genres
- Crime (Genre), Drama (Genre), Mystery (Genre), Thriller (Genre)
- Network
- CBS (Network), Paramount+ (Network)
- Showrunner
- Erica Messer (Person)
- Cast
- Kirsten Vangsness (Person), Matthew Gray Gubler (Person), A.J. Cook (Person), Joe Mantegna (Person), Thomas Gibson (Person), Shemar Moore (Person), Paget Brewster (Person), Aisha Tyler (Person), Adam Rodriguez (Person), Daniel Henney (Person), Jeanne Tripplehorn (Person), Mandy Patinkin (Person), Lola Glaudini (Person), Josh Stamberg (Person), C. Thomas Howell (Person), Danny Nucci (Person), Derek Webster (Person), Nestor Serrano (Person), Cade Owens (Person), Zach Gilford (Person), Ryan-James Hatanaka (Person), Damon Gupton (Person), Rachel Nichols (Person), Jennifer Love Hewitt (Person), Andre Royo (Person)
- Directors
- Félix Enríquez Alcalá (Person), Rob Bailey (Person), Matthew Gray Gubler (Person), Joe Mantegna (Person), John Gallagher (Person), Douglas Aarniokoski (Person), Guy Norman Bee (Person), Larry Teng (Person), Nelson McCormick (Person), Alec Smight (Person), Charles S. Carroll (Person), Rob Spera (Person), Charles Haid (Person), Diana Valentine (Person), Rob Hardy (Person), Tawnia McKiernan (Person), Bethany Rooney (Person), Karen Gaviola (Person), Sharat Raju (Person), Thomas Gibson (Person), Aisha Tyler (Person), Anna Foerster (Person), Gloria Muzio (Person), John Terlesky (Person)
- Creator(s)
- Jeff Davis (Person)
- Writers
- Bruce Zimmerman (Person), Virgil Williams (Person), Edward Allen Bernero (Person), Janine Sherman Barrois (Person), Chris Mundy (Person), Simon Mirren (Person), Debra J. Fisher (Person), Kimberly A. Harrison (Person), Jay Beattie (Person), Dan Dworkin (Person), Karen Maser (Person), Oanh Ly (Person), Stephanie Sengupta (Person), Aaron Zelman (Person), Kirsten Vangsness (Person), Erica Meredith (Person), Andi Bushell (Person), Holly Harold (Person), Alicia Kirk (Person), Jeff Davis (Person), Randy Huggins (Person), Edward Napier (Person), Jayne A. Archer (Person), Chikodili Agwuna (Person)
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- Criminal Minds (Franchise)
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