Her Fox series, Lone Star, got an early axe, but Adrianne Palicki is currently shooting a guest starring role on Criminal Minds for early 2011, as we reported last month.

“It’s in the vain of Natural Born Killers or Kalifornia,” says Palicki of the killer Criminal Minds episode. “I never played a raging psychopath before so I couldn’t turn it down.”

“I’m having so much fun.”

The show’s casting moves have been roundly criticized, but between Palicki and new cast member Rachel Nichols, no one can accuse Minds of falling short on eye candy.

The actress describes her character, Sydney, as a girl “who comes from a broken home where her father molested her. She is an alcoholic who found love with a man named Ray. She and Ray get their kicks by drinking and killing people for no reason.”

Sounds along the lines of what could have happened to her Friday Night Lights character, Tyra, had she continued hanging out with the wrong crowd. Speaking of FNL, Adrianne says she will return for the series’ final two episodes this spring!

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The actress from Friday Night Lights and next year’s Red Dawn (the tall one) gets you in the Christmas spirit

The Joke:

Three men wait at the gates of heaven on Christmas Eve. They’re told they have to present a Christmas gift to get in. The first man checks his pockets and finds pine needles from his family’s tree. He’s allowed in. The second hands over a bow and some ribbon. He’s allowed in. The third man pulls out a pair of panties. “How do those represent Christmas?” St. Peter asks him.

“Oh,” the man replies, “they’re Carol’s.”

About the Jokester:

Adrianne Palicki is tall. Five feet eleven inches, to be exact. And while that might not have hurt her ability to pose on ottomans, it wasn’t much help in her career: “I couldn’t get jobs. I’d do the hip lean and practically walk in barefoot.” She didn’t fool anyone, but she did eventually start getting work. Lots of it — as Tyra Collette, the tall, wrong-side-of-the-tracks blond on Friday Night Lights, and as the tall brunette on the short-lived Fox series Lone Star. Palicki, 27, has also been in movies like Legion and Elektra Luxx, and next year she’ll star in a remake of the ’80s classic RedDawn. She’ll be the tall one.

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In her first gig since the swift cancellation of the praised Fox drama Lone Star, Adrianne Palicki has signed on to guest-star in an episode of Criminal Minds that pays homage to Oliver Stone’s seminal criminal satire Natural Born Killers.

Palicki will play Syd, a tough, irreverent and sexually manipulative lunatic who sets out on a cross country killing spree with her badass sociopath husband Ray (The Black Donnellys’ Jonathan Tucker). Like Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis’ characters in Killers, Syd and Ray were both victims of childhood abuse.

The episode is slated to air in early ’11.

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I have just added 1,000+ photos of Adrianne Palicki at various public appearances from 2005 through this year! Pretty much every album has been added to and many new albums were created – you can see some previews of what was added below.

I have added 180 captures of Adrianne Palicki from the episode of “Quintuplets” that she appeared in.

I have just added captures of Adrianne Palicki from the two episodes of “North Shore” that she appeared in.

Sadly, as you’ve heard, Fox has decided to cancel Lone Star. I’ve added captures from episode two to the gallery and I’m sad to see it’ll be the last time I cap something from the show. I felt it was a mature show that had potential, that just wasn’t well executed by Fox at all (Really, the same time slot as Gossip Girl? Really Fox?)

I have just added 600+ screen captures of Adrianne Palicki from her appearance on “CSI” (from 2004) and “CSI: Miami” (from 2009) into our gallery.

Fox has pulled the plug on Lone Star after two low-rated episodes. Reruns of Lie to Me will fill the show’s Monday-9 pm time slot beginning next week.

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“Lone Star” is the new drama from FOX where Robert/Bob Allen (James Wolk) is a con man leading a double life in Texas oil country. His wealthy Houston wife is Cat Thatcher, played by “Friday Night Lights” alum Adrianne Palicki, who tells Zap2it she’s excited to play someone her own age for once.

“I’ve never played a character that was my age,” laughs Palicki. “She comes from the right side of the tracks, which I’m also used to playing the opposite. She has a 7-year-old daughter. She just really interested me in those respects. And the script itself … I’ve never read anything like this. The scripts just keep getting better and better.”

Part of her wealthy upbringing means Cat isn’t used to working very hard, which is something she admires in her husband Bob.

“She sees in Bob the things that were lacking in her past relationships,” says Palicki. “She also sees somebody who is so different from the world she grew up in, which is somebody who is working from the bottom up. He doesn’t come from society, he doesn’t have money and she loves that about him.”

But something she may not love about Bob is that he has another family 500 miles away in the small town of Midland, TX, which includes another wife named Lindsay (Eloise Mumford). Cat probably would not want to meet Lindsay, but as an actress, Palicki has another opinion about if the wives were to meet.

“I think it would be fantastic,” she says. “It’s about how it’s done and I actually do think it will happen. I think it’ll be something for the audience to just really [gasp] ‘Oh my god!’ … I think those moments are what make good television.”

Palicki also teases some upcoming tension between the three children of the Thatcher family. Cat has two very different brothers in the older, more responsible Tram (Mark Deklin) and younger playboy Drew (Bryce Johnson).

“Tram kind of gets his nose bent out of joint. They have a lot of animosity because Clint (Jon Voight) really would like her to take over the family business and she really wants nothing to do with it,” says Palicki.

“And then there’s Drew,” she continues. “Their mother died years back and she’s really taken over the mother role in the household. She overcompensates for Drew, which you’ll see in further episodes. He gets into some trouble and she’s constantly enabling him.”

“Lone Star” premieres Monday (Sept. 20) at 9 p.m. ET on FOX.