SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for FBI Season 8, Episode 20.
FBI Season 8, Episode 20, “Roleplay” feels like several different ideas that were combined together to make one episode, instead of one cohesive plotline. It does get the CBS show’s audience from Point A to Point B, but it feels like it wants to be several different things. And the irony is, most of those things are good; they just don’t really go together.
From the opening scene that gives the episode its title, viewers can tell that something’s off about this one. At first, it starts out as a high-profile murder that might be connected to a labor dispute. But then it gets weird again as the head of the labor union privately confesses that he and murder victim Susan Granwell were actually in love and engaged to be married. The first suspect in any procedural is usually not the actual killer, yet the whole bit is still awkward to watch. And that’s an example of the bigger issue: most of the guest characters in this FBI episode don’t have anything about them to hook the audience beyond the “good guys vs. bad guys” baseline.
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FBI airs Mondays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Photo Credit: Courtesy of CBS.
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