As much as I love everyone getting together as a family for wine and a lesson in how to make spaghetti, I wish S7E2 “Proof” wasn’t the end of Reid giving JJ and Prentiss the cold shoulder
I mean, there was something so visceral about JJ basically saying, “I get that your mad because we wounded your pride and made you seem like a less effective profiler because we can control our micro-expressions”
And Reid saying, “I am mad, Jennifer, because I cried in your arms for ten weeks straight after the losing my friend, and the pain was enough to make me consider going back to drugs, but apparently, you knew the truth all along and betrayed my trust in you.”
Just JJ thinking it’s about pride, and Reid shutting that down as harshly as he can because it’s not and it never was. And maybe that hurt him, too, the fact that JJ was so wrong about why he was ignoring her
And they really could’ve kept it going in the next few episodes because the thing about Reid is that his anger was manifesting as a few snide remarks and a refusal to engage in personal conversation/jokes. He did not refuse to work with JJ; he did not ignore her words or interrupt them. He remained extremely competent with the job
It would’ve been great to see Reid emotionally withdrawing from the entire BAU. He still does his work, but he stops joking and laughing
And I’d want him to stop info-dumping as well. As much as I love it, I need the BAU to have something they thought annoyed them completely stop. There’s a hollowness in their conversations with Reid where he used to yap at them. He just stares silently and moves on now
AND THEN we could’ve had everyone getting together as a family for wine and a lesson in how to make spaghetti