{"id":752647,"date":"2026-06-22T01:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752647\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T01:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:21:11","slug":"paget-brewster-lashes-out-at-tv-critic-after-negative-review-apologizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752647\/","title":{"rendered":"Paget Brewster Lashes Out at TV Critic After Negative Review, Apologizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260621_15fef8f09e63477fbaa9426be1c0ff5d\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e644a4f3-4088-4641-a1db-cea278731059\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15fef8f09e63477fbaa9426be1c0ff5d_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-paget-brewster-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paget Brewster seemingly lost her &#8216;criminal mind&#8217; for a moment &#8230; tearing into a reviewer just doing her job &#8212; though she issued an apology shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal &#8230; Shealyn Scott &#8212; a senior writer for Screenrant &#8212; wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/criminal-minds-paramount-plus-seasons-too-short-backfires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">review<\/a> about &#8220;Criminal Minds: Evolution&#8221; titled &#8220;Paramount+&#8217;s Criminal Minds Format Change Finally Backfires.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260621_26aede0e2f9440848df3491ed0856045\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e644a4f3-4088-4641-a1db-cea278731059\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/26aede0e2f9440848df3491ed0856045_md.jpg\" alt=\"sub-paget-brewster-criminal-minds-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the article, Shealyn does what critics do &#8212; critiquing the show&#8217;s downgrade from 20+ episode seasons to 10-episode affairs on the streaming site. It&#8217;s really her only gripe &#8230; so it may have floored her when Paget called her out on social.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e60bb3b4407d486fa1ae77a89ad7eb69_md.jpg\" alt=\"061626_marilyn_monroe_promo_tonight.01_00_27_13\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>PB wrote on X, &#8220;You\u2019re young. You don\u2019t know that bad pics and bad reviews can lead to 350 people losing their jobs. Sell vintage. Work at a shelter. Do something better than what you do now. Because right now you suck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the &#8220;bad pics&#8221; Screenrant used &#8230; they&#8217;re all approved stills from the show CBS has put out for situations just like this one &#8212; so, her issue should be with the network&#8217;s PR department, not the writer.<\/p>\n<p>      Hi guys, I was mean to Shealyn Scott last night and I profoundly regret it. Shame on me for insulting a human being for doing their job. I\u2019m very sorry, Shealyn. And I\u2019m sorry to those who follow me that you saw me behave like that. Turns out, last night, I sucked.<br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pagetpaget\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@pagetpaget<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to Sunday, and it seems Paget may have realized she went too far &#8230; acknowledging she was mean to Shealyn and really regrets it.<\/p>\n<p>She writes, &#8220;Shame on me for insulting a human being for doing their job. I\u2019m very sorry, Shealyn. And I\u2019m sorry to those who follow me that you saw me behave like that. Turns out, last night, I sucked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To err is human &#8230; though we&#8217;ll have to wait and see if Shealyn has that divine forgiveness ready.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paget Brewster seemingly lost her &#8216;criminal mind&#8217; for a moment &#8230; tearing into a reviewer just doing her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-752647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}