But we’ll be getting to see Garcia lean more into her post-trauma depression and other emotions, and I’m very interested to see exactly how she saves herself from such a dire situation.
Earlier this year, Kirsten Vangsness told me how much she enjoyed Season 13 as a whole, so she is presumably enjoying a chance to show more layers of her character’s personality.
Many of the things that Garcia and the team have done would weigh extremely heavily on someone, but because this is a network drama with an established storytelling format, the characters rarely get to express that more vulnerable side of themselves.
Not to say that Criminal Minds characters all go through soft resets between every episode, especially in the past couple of years, but it’s definitely true that the show doesn’t allow for personal problems and issues to fester in ways that they do in real life.