Reviews of CSI: Miami

CSI: Miami review

Posted : 1 month, 1 week ago on 13 July 2008 04:51 (A review of CSI: Miami)

Alright, so I will admit that it's cheesy. Very, very cheesy. And I can see why there are people who cannot stand this show, but for me, the complete cheesiness and o! the drama is exactly why I love this show. It's just fun(ny) TV. Besides, I'm a sucker for the puns that there's a multitude of in all of the CSIs. :)

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CSI: Miami review

Posted : 5 months, 1 week ago on 13 March 2008 05:04 (A review of CSI: Miami)

I came on here to let the world know how bad CSI: Miami is...but the two reviews below said everything I wanted to and more. Ham acting, bad casting, outrageous accents, unlikable characters.

I love the original CSI series, and really can't fault it; I however saw a CSI / CSI: Miami cross over the other day. Catherine and the crew follow a murderer to Miami. The Miami crew managed to bring down the entire episode..not even Grissom, the pillar of respectability could hold the episode together.

I was also surprised at how less orange the episode was, for once it didn’t burn my retinas. The original CSI crew must have demanded that; first and foremost, they're going to wipe all the marmalade off of the camera lenses.

This cross over ep. gave a perfect opportunity to compare the original to Miami. Complex, subtle and interesting, CSI out acted and generally out-did the shallow, plastic Miami.


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CSI: Miami review

Posted : 9 months, 1 week ago on 15 November 2007 06:34 (A review of CSI: Miami)

The previous review is utterly unbeatable, but as a new comer to the series, I thought I'd throw in my 2 pence as well. From the off I couldn't believe the completely overblown attempt at making Horatio an edgy and intriguing character. At times he reminds me of someone with a mild form of mental illness, rather than a CSI at the top of his profession. The way he skulks around a crime scene and delivers some of the most outrageous and predictable jokes...it's just amazing that they get away with it.

Add in the fact that Emily Proctor has no vocal tone other than 'patronising bitch', the crazy woman in the morgue, her unhealthy obsession with the corpses and the fact that she often misses the most obvious injuries sustained by the 'vic' until later in the episode and Rodriguez, the huge CSI who should be on an American Football team, and you've pretty much got an entire team who are completely unbelievable, poorly cast and awkward.

The plots are also unbelievable at times, no matter what, whenever Horatio or one of his cronies turn up to a crime scene they will instantly uncover the body/clue/piece of evidence they're looking for straight away. I bet this show makes real CSIs turn in their graves.

All of this, of course, makes compulsive viewing.

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CSI: Miami

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago on 21 November 2006 07:12 (A review of CSI: Miami)

The acclaimed CSI series went south (figuratively) with the addition of Miami. David Caruso may have resurrected his career with a high weekly Nielsen rating, but that does not account for his ridiculous overacting and dramatic postures. As for the rest of the cast, Calleigh (Emily Procter) may be one of the worst actresses on television and "Mr Wolfe" (in David Caruso's voice) is a pathetic clone of the original series' fun loving Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda). The newest addition, mole-turned-CSI Natalia Boa Vista (Eva La Rue) is so awful, she makes Emily Procter look like an Oscar winner.

Aside from the cast, another grievance is when each CSI feels the need to explain their "techniques" to each other as a way for the audience to understand what is going on. Honestly, stop taking cues from Sesame Street, we are not 5 years old, so don't explain it to each other with voices that look down on our intelligence.

I guess the only reason I still watch is because Thursday is a long ways from Monday and like any crack addict I need to fill the void until the original airs.

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