Posts Tagged ‘CSI: Miami’

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    CSI: Miami – “LA” – Review
    Admission up front: I haven’t seen anything by Rob Zombie. I know him from afar as a horror maestro. He was the guest director last night, and I was intrigued, to be sure. As cool as it is to have guest director (Like Quentin Tarantino did with the original CSI a year or so ago), when you have a scripted crime show with an established template, you know there won’t...
    by Scott Parker at March 2nd, 2010 at 08:03 am
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    CSI: Miami – “Miami, We Have a Problem” – review
    As a writer myself, I’m constantly impressed by CSI: Miami’s writers’ ability to come up with interesting crimes perpetrated in interesting ways. What makes the three CSI programs so fun to watch is the regional variation offered by Las Vegas, New York, and Miami. Surprisingly, it’s taken eight years for the Miami group to bring in a story involving space....
    by Scott Parker at February 9th, 2010 at 10:02 am
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    CSI: Miami – “In the Wind” – Review
    In just about every opening of your standard CSI: Miami episode, we viewers get to see the crime. By the end of your regular episode, the murderer is taken away in handcuffs. Last night’s episode, “In the Wind,” starts in a different place: Death Row. The crime is fifteen years in the past. The convicted murderer, James Bradstone, played by Anthony Michael Hall,...
    by Scott Parker at February 2nd, 2010 at 09:02 am
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    CSI: Miami – “Die by the Sword” – review
    It has to be an interesting and, at times, frustrating job to be a writer for a crime show like CSI: Miami. The template is pretty structured, and we viewers know what we’re going to get week in and week out. It’s one of the reasons why network television is our comfort food. Every now and then, however, we get something interesting. Take this week’s episode, “Die...
    by Scott Parker at January 19th, 2010 at 09:01 am
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    CSI: Miami – “Show Stopper” – review
    For the first new episode of the year, CSI: Miami asks the question: What if Hannah Montana pulled a Michael Jackson? Let’s be honest–Jackson’s notorious hair fire of 1984 is now pop culture legend. Montana is a current legend. The actress/singer in this week’s episode may be named Phoenix, but we all know who she’s standing in for. In the opening shots...
    by Scott Parker at January 13th, 2010 at 09:01 am
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    CSI: Miami – “Delko for the Defense” – Review
    Like last week’s episode, this one began with running. Calleigh and Ryan were in hot pursuit of a suspect, as was Horatio. Apparently, the cameraman also got in on the action, since the images were quite jumpy and chaotic. The perp ran over bikes, through shrubs, and across basketball courts. Finally, he pulled a Bugs Bunny: he threw he clothes off, hid them, and jumped...
    by Scott Parker at December 15th, 2009 at 09:12 am
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    CSI: Miami – “Count Me Out” – Review
    With few exceptions, American police procedurals are straight-forward television drama with little changes here and there, never enough to upset the balance. Week in and week out, you pretty much know what you are going to get: crime, usually murder, is committed, sifting through clues, red herrings thrown in, a chase or two, and the bad guy is caught and the cops celebrate....
    by Scott Parker at December 8th, 2009 at 09:12 am
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    CSI: Miami – “Kill Clause” – Review
    One of the best things the Vegas CSI did last season was have a smaller subplot that played out over multiple episodes. They showed a little here and a little there, and it all added up to the big episode later in the season. I saw a little of that in last night’s CSI: Miami episode when it came to Jesse’s past and the mysterious woman. Bouncing back from a sub-par...
    by Scott Parker at November 24th, 2009 at 09:11 am
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    CSI: Miami – “Point of Impact” – Review
    Serendipity is that strange thing where two seemingly unrelated things actually share something in common. The timing and subject matter of last night’s CSI: Miami episode was, for me, like deja vu. You see, on Sunday, I happened to catch Masterpiece: Contemporary on PBS. The episode in question was “Collision,” the latest program by Anthony Horowitz, creator of...
    by Scott Parker at November 17th, 2009 at 10:11 am
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    CSI: Miami – “Bone Voyage” – Review
    Here’s what I don’t get: CSI was TV’s #1 show for a few years this decade. William Peterson’s Grissom was The Man on CSI. Yet, he never traveled to Miami or New York for a crossover event. A year after Lawrence Fishburne arrives in Vegas, he gets to be The Crossover Man. Not sure I get that, but it didn’t detract from the episode last night. For those of you...
    by Scott Parker at November 10th, 2009 at 09:11 am
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    CSI Trilogy Crossover – Sneak Peak Clip!
    The end of October brought us the “CSI Trilogy” teaser, giving us a taste of the crossover between the three hit CBS shows. There is now an extended, over 3-minute sneak peak online, for the event that kicks off next week. The crossover begins on November 9th (on CSI: Miami (episode titled “Bone Voyage”), continue in New York on “Hammer Down” to...
    by Jay Tomio at November 6th, 2009 at 07:11 am
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    CSI: Miami – “Dude, Where’s My Groom?” – Review
    As a guy, and a married one at that, I always have the same idea when it comes to bachelor parties: you ought to have one the night before a first date with any lady. If she’s the one, by the time you’ve popped the question, chances are you are way past strip clubs and lasciviousness. Thus, the bachelor party thing is only a recipe for disaster. We certainly have...
    by Scott Parker at November 3rd, 2009 at 04:11 pm
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    CSI Crossover – ‘CSI Trilogy’ Teaser
    Yes, the CSI Trilogy. The end of last week brought us promo images to the November CSI crossover that we first mentioned back in August. To kick of this week we have a the TV Spot that CBS has (apparently–no commercials here!) been airing. UPDATE – a longer look is now available! The crossover begins on November 9th (on CSI: Miami (episode titled “Bone...
    by Jay Tomio at October 26th, 2009 at 03:10 am
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    CSI Crossover Promo Images
    Back in August we noted the very preliminary news regarding a CSI crossover as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY get tied together via Laurence Fishburne. We now have some promo images for the event that begins on November 9th (you’re going to hear “sweeps’ a lot next month) on CSI: Miami (episode titled “Bone Voyage”). [View...
    by Jay Tomio at October 23rd, 2009 at 03:10 am
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    CSI: Miami – “Bad Seed” Review
    If I learned one thing about tonight’s CSI: Miami episode, “Bad Seed,” it’s this: always wash produce before eating. In what may be Eric Delko’s swan song, the show focused on him to a great extent tonight. He and former ME Alexx are chatting about leaving MDPD when paramedics barge into the ER. A young woman is on the cart, her boyfriend, Ethan, trailing behind....
    by Scott Parker at October 20th, 2009 at 08:10 am
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