Pleasure Is My Business
- Episode aired Feb 25, 2009
- TV-14
- 42m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
2.3K
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A high priced call girl that is killing her clients must be found and stopped.A high priced call girl that is killing her clients must be found and stopped.A high priced call girl that is killing her clients must be found and stopped.
Abby Eiland
- Allison Barnes
- (as Abigail Eiland)
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Did you know
- TriviaWhen Megan Kane Googles Hotch, she watches his press release from Brothers in Arms (2008).
- GoofsWhen Megan kills Trent in the garage, she tells the TV news reporter that the garage is at Corinth and Michigan. Those two streets do not cross in Dallas. After that Garcia triangulates Megan's position as 1818 Corinth with a zip code of 75273. An 1800 block of Corinth exists, but It doesn't have an 1818 address. A food processing plant exists where that would be, not a parking garage. Even if the address did exist, the zip code would be 75215, not 75273. Furthermore, Garcia's map shows the address to be in the Trinity River green belt, but the 1800 block of Corinth is at least 10 blocks from there. The garage is also nowhere near a skyline that's shown when the BAU arrives.
- Quotes
Aaron Hotchner: [opening quotation, voiceover] "The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror. An outlaw who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture." - Camille Paglia.
Featured review
An absolute pleasure to watch
'Criminal Minds' is a favourite of mine, though admittedly some seasons are far better than others. The show has too admittedly become more hit and miss, and every season has at least one episode that doesn't work or is a stinker.
There are many classics of the show and Season 4 (one of the best and more consistent 'Criminal Minds' seasons) has seen several gems such as "The Big Wheel", "Zoe's Reprise", "Conflicted" and "Omnivore". "Pleasure is My Business" is one of Season 4's better episodes in my opinion and is almost a classic.
My only complaint actually is (and this is in agreement with a previous review) is that over-familiar and done to death being in the same elevator with the unsub and not realising, actually making (or coming close) far from stupid characters seem so. Had no objection personally to the supposedly misogynistic opening quote.
However, production values are stellar as ever, as are the suitably moody music, only used when needed to be and is never intrusive to being over-bearing or low-key to having no presence, and the solid directing that keeps the drama alert while giving it room to breathe.
Scripting is taut and thought-provoking, while the story is throughout gripping with many surprising twists and turns that makes the truth and the supporting characters not what they seem on first glance. The ending is especially moving, one of the most truly emotional endings of Season 4, while Reid's awkwardness is very cute.
"Pleasure is My Business" develops the supporting characters wonderfully. There is a surprisingly sympathetic unsub, one of the first and most effectively written and developed female ones, who one feels genuine empathy for and understand her point of view while at the same time not condoning her actions in any way. In fact, the father character is the character that the viewer hates.
Loved that "Pleasure is My Business" had Hotch, back when he was actually interesting and not reduced to invisible background, given a prominent role here. Plus in a way that was intriguing and emotionally investible, his role in the ending being a large part of why it worked so well and is up there with my favourite Hotch moments.
Acting is very good, while all the leads do a typically top notch job Thomas Gibson is especially marvellous and the unsub and her father are portrayed in a way that is up on their level.
Overall, an absolute pleasure to watch and almost perfect. 9/10 Bethany Cox
There are many classics of the show and Season 4 (one of the best and more consistent 'Criminal Minds' seasons) has seen several gems such as "The Big Wheel", "Zoe's Reprise", "Conflicted" and "Omnivore". "Pleasure is My Business" is one of Season 4's better episodes in my opinion and is almost a classic.
My only complaint actually is (and this is in agreement with a previous review) is that over-familiar and done to death being in the same elevator with the unsub and not realising, actually making (or coming close) far from stupid characters seem so. Had no objection personally to the supposedly misogynistic opening quote.
However, production values are stellar as ever, as are the suitably moody music, only used when needed to be and is never intrusive to being over-bearing or low-key to having no presence, and the solid directing that keeps the drama alert while giving it room to breathe.
Scripting is taut and thought-provoking, while the story is throughout gripping with many surprising twists and turns that makes the truth and the supporting characters not what they seem on first glance. The ending is especially moving, one of the most truly emotional endings of Season 4, while Reid's awkwardness is very cute.
"Pleasure is My Business" develops the supporting characters wonderfully. There is a surprisingly sympathetic unsub, one of the first and most effectively written and developed female ones, who one feels genuine empathy for and understand her point of view while at the same time not condoning her actions in any way. In fact, the father character is the character that the viewer hates.
Loved that "Pleasure is My Business" had Hotch, back when he was actually interesting and not reduced to invisible background, given a prominent role here. Plus in a way that was intriguing and emotionally investible, his role in the ending being a large part of why it worked so well and is up there with my favourite Hotch moments.
Acting is very good, while all the leads do a typically top notch job Thomas Gibson is especially marvellous and the unsub and her father are portrayed in a way that is up on their level.
Overall, an absolute pleasure to watch and almost perfect. 9/10 Bethany Cox
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- Dec 9, 2016
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- Runtime42 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
- 16:9 HD
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