'Criminal Minds: Evolution' review: A welcome return for the BAU

'I promise, if you put down the gun, release the hostage and come with me, I'll ... comb my hair and get a shave. Honest.' Photos: Handout

Criminal Minds: Evolution, a revival/soft reboot of the beloved CBS crime procedural, could well be subtitled "Redemption" instead.

It is after all a shot at redemption, mainly for the pretty awful plotting and contrivances surrounding the 15th (and at the time final) season of Criminal Minds.