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In my recap of that powerful Eric Dane episode, I said that sometimes Brilliant Minds just decides to drop an hour of emotional torture out of nowhere.

I hate to say I told you so, but I did. To be fair, Brilliant Minds Season 2 hasn’t exactly been secretive about Charlie Porter’s ill intentions, and the Halloween special dropped a pretty big clue about his real motivations.

Oh, boy. Every now and again, Brilliant Minds delivers an episode like “The Fire Fighter”, seemingly just for its own sick pleasure.

A lot of Brilliant Minds Season 2 has been about the future. The teases of Wolf’s eventual incarceration in Hudson Oaks, no doubt thanks to...

Brilliant Minds is typically quite elegantly plotted, and has been throughout most of Season 2. But I think it’s fair to say that in Episode...

Let's just get this out of the way -- there's far too much going on in "The Doctor's Graveyard".

It occurred to me during "Once Upon A Time In America" that Brilliant Minds has spent so much time building mystery in Season 2 that it has kind of skimped on the emotion a little.

There are few things more satisfying than a legal drama that lets the good guys win. In the case of The Rainmaker, I don’t use...

Brilliant Minds has always been good, and sometimes it has been very good, but in Season 2, it really might be at its peak.

That excitable, itchy feeling of a penultimate episode definitely creeps into The Rainmaker here, and it’s perhaps just as well, since it hasn’t always been...

Sometimes, Brilliant Minds only has a so-so case of the week to justify focusing primarily on the characters and their interpersonal drama -- see, for example, the Season 2 premiere.

You can tell we’re getting to the end of The Rainmaker now, since there’s a real fist-pump quality to Episode 8 as the tables finally begin to meaningfully turn.

Brilliant Minds got off to a chaotic start in Season 2, so it benefits from a narrower episode like “The Contestant”. But there’s still plenty...

A lot has changed in the world of Brilliant Minds. This was inevitably going to happen after the dramatic events that capped off the first...

The Rainmaker takes something of a turn in Episode 7, largely abandoning the main plot for the equivalent of a side quest that neatly ties up Rudy’s ongoing involvement in Kelly’s love life.

Every legal drama needs a moment when the tables turn, and The Rainmaker gets it in Episode 6.

It was bound to happen eventually. Rudy’s ability to fall on his feet couldn’t last forever, and Episode 5 of The Rainmaker marks the end of the road for his run of good luck.

I don’t like to say “I told you so”, but it only took until Episode 4 for The Rainmaker to prove me right about Rudy and Sarah.