Why does gideon leave criminal minds

Jeanne Tripplehorn burst onto the Hollywood scene in the early nineties when she starred in a number of box office hits and one infamous bomb. She joined the cast of Criminal Minds in Season 8 as Dr. Alex Blake. Her run with the show was fairly short, leaving after just two seasons when contract negotiations fell apart. Her character's exit came after she decided working in BAU reminded her too much of her deceased son and she left.

Her niece, whom she had adopted after the death of her sister and brother-in-law in the September 11th attacks, was kidnapped and then rescued. Kate Callahan decided she needed to take some time away to care for with adopted daughter and soon-to-be-born baby. Like her character, Jennifer Love Hewitt left the show at the same time for maternity reasons.

Like the character, Hewitt was pregnant with her second child and it was announced before Season 11 that she would be leaving the show to care for her growing family. Rachel Nichols joined the show first as a guest star in a three-episode arc that eventually morphed into her getting signed on as a full cast member.

She joined as Ashley Seaver, an up-and-coming FBI trainee, but that gig was controversial at first, with fans angry that she was seemingly replacing the two popular characters played by A. Cook and Paget Brewster.

She was let go after just one season when Cook and Brewster returned. Gupton departed the show as fast as he joined when the network decided not to renew his contract in the wake of a number of cast maneuvers before Season Elle Greenaway had a violent end to her run with the BAU, both being shot and shooting suspects in her final episode.

Lola Glaudini's personal reason for leaving the Criminal Minds cast was not nearly as dramatic. In Season 2, according to criminalminds. Frank becomes obsessed with Gideon and at the end of the season, he breaks into Gideon's house and kills his girlfriend, Sarah. At the beginning of Season 3, Gideon is scarred by the death of Sarah.

He leaves behind his badge in an envelope because of his emotional issues brought on by the devastation. After Gideon turned in his badge, his former colleague, David Rossi played by Joe Mantegna took his place. From then on, he only gets mentioned briefly on the show. According to Cinema Blend , viewers knew Gideon wouldn't come back as of Season 10 , when he became the victim of an off-screen serial killer, Donnie Mallick.

Gideon left a clue behind when he died, so Rossi and the team were able to get to the bottom of it. After that, Gideon wasn't mentioned or shown again. According to TV Guide , the show's executive producer, Erica Messer, said it was beneficial to see who Gideon was , and what he went through over the last several years.

Viewers hadn't seen him in quite a while, but it provided good closure for his character. We don't kill off our heroes very often," Messer said in TV Guide.

Just two years later, Showtime came calling with a career-defining lead role as Saul Berenson on their new series Homeland. Fans could be forgiven for questioning why Patinkin seems so at home on the national security drama, which has included its own fair share of disturbing moments over the years — but Patinkin doesn't see the two as equivalent.

In his opinion, Criminal Minds glorified violence and depravity, whereas Homeland provides an important critique. Just one year after that scathing assessment, an introspective Patinkin took a very different tone with the New York Times Magazine. By this time, it was common knowledge that Patinkin went "AWOL" after season 2 of Criminal Minds; without providing any notice to the show's producers or cast, he simply disappeared.

An executive producer at the time described him as "the father who goes out for a carton of milk and then just never comes home.

Ashlee Lapine, who directed Patinkin on Criminal Minds , told the magazine that Patinkin was a handful. He would lose himself so much in the work, and he was playing an obsessive, which goes hand in hand. From all the statements given by producers and Patinkin himself in the aftermath of the departure, it sounds like the demands of that role in particular were having a serious impact on the actor's well-being.

That's not a defense for ghosting the show, but it is an explanation. While it sounds like Patinkin stands by his moral stance against Criminal Minds , there are likely a few things about his exit that he wishes he could have done better, which is a feeling we can all relate to.