ugh i cannot STAND the new girl rachel nichols... maybe it is because Paget Brewster and AJ Cook are amazing actresses, but even with them gone, rachel SUCKS. What were they thinking??? Seriously how can they even pretend she doesn't suck the energy out of the cast? It has almost gotten so bad that I don't want to watch this show anymore... and it was my favorite show just last year. I AM SO MAD AT THEM!!!

ugh i cannot STAND the new girl rachel nichols... maybe it is because Paget Brewster and AJ Cook are amazing actresses, but even with them gone, rachel SUCKS. What were they thinking??? Seriously how can they even pretend she doesn't suck the energy out of the cast? It has almost gotten so bad that I don't want to watch this show anymore... and it was my favorite show just last year. I AM SO MAD AT THEM!!!

Hey people! If they say "Budget cuts" they should not hire anybody after firing somebody... you know why fire if you can hire...

Sorry, I really hate this Rachel character. Once Prentiss goes, can't they send her back to FBI school? SHe is rude, snippy, and out of all the actresses in hollywood is she the only one available? UGH.
I hope Prentiss "prentends to die" and gets her own spin off where she rejoins INTERPOL.

i just dont get the point...why fire two women that people obviously respond well to, to hire one random...

Susan
Rachel Nichols (no offense) needs to leave the show, she is not good at all and the rest of the cast does not need to be babysitting. If she doesn't leave I'm done with Criminal Minds!!!! But maybe they're thinking of pulling the plug soon because thats usually when they pull stupid stunts like this.

First, thanks for the wonderful new haircut on Matthew Grey Gubler. His hair used to drive me crazy. As for what the series has done to AJ Cook and Paget Brewster - don't these people realize that part of the reason we watch these shows is because we LIKE the characters and the actors who play them????? I miss AJ Cook, I want Paget Brewster back full time, and Rachel Nichols needs to be somewhere else doing something else! She does NOT "fit" with the rest of the cast. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING????

Again! Please do not use my actual name!!!!!!!!! Use vickie17.

I have forgotten my pw since I don't comment much. I was shocked to learn that AJ Cook was dismissed. While watching a show a while ago, I marvelled at her amazing abilities as her character reminding me of my career as a psycho therapist etc. She displayed many good social work skills that I had to use with families, children, perps, and other pros who tended to maximize their importance. I missed several shows wherein she left, so when I tried to learn what happened and found this info. I was outraged. What pretentious ass perpetrated that misguided axing???? Smacks of the inadequate supervisors in my field who got their jollies by making professionals' jobs harder. I loved watching her handle her job so competently. Maybe she made the boss look bad. Disgraceful.

This is particularly interesting to me given that Nichols starred in The Inside, an excellent but short-lived series (helmed by Tim Minear and killed by Fox, big surprise) which premiered a few months before Criminal Minds and had, basically, the exact same premise. It will be interesting to see what her role on Minds is. Given the right role Nichols can be great, but in the wrong role she can be, well, obnoxious.