With 15 seasons and several spinoffs (including even a South Korean version and a video game), CBS's police procedural drama Criminal Minds finally completed its run this year. Regardless of the audiences' own views towards foreigners, the show wasn't even entertaining enough to last, with CBS pulling the plug on the series after just two seasons. Unlike the original series based upon a real unit within the FBI, Beyond Borders the International Response Team (IRT) is completely fictional. Updated Now that Criminal Minds has ended, here's where you can stream and buy every single episode (including spinoffs). While "Criminal Minds" focuses on the dangers that appear doing normal, everyday things-like attending church, driving home from work, or going on a date-"Beyond Borders" focuses on horrors that are seemingly unavoidable for Americans who leave their own Star-Spangled home. Feinberg elaborates, saying that on "Beyond Borders," the unsubs are "products of their non-American environments, lurking in wait for tourists, young tourists, as their parents huddle at home in misery" (via THR). Air date: When an American visiting Mumbai wakes up missing a kidney, the investigation leads the team to suspect the UnSub is up to more than trading organs on the black market. As Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter puts it, "Beyond Borders" is "a pure distillation of xenophobia," and "shamelessly mines fears of international locations and foreign cultures." The show's first two episodes take place in Thailand and India, respectively, further emphasizing the harmful and incorrect stereotype of non-white and non-Western countries being a threat to Americans.
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