Criminal Minds: Evolution Fans Are Completely Stunned By How Much Henry Has Grown – Looper

Season 1, Episode 8 of “Criminal Minds: Evolution” features a long-awaited check-in with JJ’s family, entailing another appearance from Henry. As it turns out, the kid has visibly aged quite a bit since his last appearance in “Criminal Minds” Season 15. He’s taking after his mother too, as he demonstrates a respectable knack for profiling.

Considering that “Criminal Minds: Evolution” takes place after a modest time skip beyond the original series, it makes sense that Henry would be older, but fans were nevertheless caught off guard by just how much he’s grown. “The way I gasped when I saw JJ’s Boys,” @wmbookworm96 tweeted. “They are so big now! Henry is taller than JJ, he’s a whole teenager! I feel so damn old.” Many viewers were reminded of Henry’s scenes as a little kid and marveled at how recent those old scenes still felt. “Henry being 14 still spooks me out a little, he was just cosplaying as Spencer Reid and being scared of Halloween monsters,” another fan tweeted.

Henry’s growth is especially impressive when considering that Mekhai Andersen has been portraying the character from the very start. When A.J. Cook gave birth to Andersen in 2008, it wasn’t long before he ended up appearing as a newborn Henry on “Criminal Minds.” With his sporadic appearances in the franchise over the years since then, one can effectively witness Andersen and Henry grow all the way from a newborn to a teenager. That’s quite the time capsule.