TV review

[ffutures]

Can't resist quoting this CSI Miami review snippet:

The storyline is typically convoluted and engaging, and the episode has the requisite number of sharp one-liners, but CSI: Miami increasingly looks like a glossy 1980s pop promo. And why at certain points in the story do the cast start walking in slow motion?

Pretty much sums up CSI Miami - all style and no substance. Original CSI is still pretty good, CSI NY isn't bad, why is Miami so awful? Could it possibly be the cast?

Comments

[kit-hartford.livejournal.com]

I thought that was just me. I really like "classic" CSI but after half a dozen episodes of Miami I despised the show, yet friends of mine raved about it. The mix of characters and their interactions in the Vegas version is great - in Miami they're just cookie-cutter archetypes with no chemistry. Give me nerdy, flawed Gil Grissom vs Horatio "aren't I cool" Caine any day.

I've yet to see CSI: NY though.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

NY isn't as good as Vegas but you can just about believe that the cast have lives off-screen. It's got a slightly gritty feel that Miami always seems to lack, I suspect because it's competing with other New York series such as Law and Order and can't sell on gloss alone.