Revealed: The Real Reason These Characters Left Their TV Shows

Mandy Patinkin Didn’t Agree With The Content Of Criminal Minds

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Mandy Patinkin played Special Agent Jason Gideon in the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds. Although he was in the show from the start, he was killed off for two reasons. Gideon has admitted to New York Magazine that “I thought [Criminal Minds] was different. I never thought they were going to kill and rape all these women every night, every day, week after week, year after year. It was very destructive to my soul and my personality.”

For that reason, he became a terrible employee, not showing up for work until he was killed off and both sides got what they wanted.