Was that a setup for CSI:LA next season, or did the producers just think Brass needed his own episode?
I said pretty much the same thing to my hubby. I think CSI:LA would be better than Miami. I don’t like David Caruso.
I’d like to see Matthew Glave more 
Which is the exact reason I don’t watch Miami. 
Well, that and the fact that Rory Cochrane died. I think that was the last episode I watched.
I had the eerie suspicion they were setting us up for CSI:LA. They introduced a few characters and plenty of drama between lead-cop lady and the big-important-men. Plus the left the head CSI unshown so they can fill that slot with whatever star they can nab. As long as the cast is more interesting than the typical New Yorker cast of CSI: NY. Uffff. Gary Senise is annoying. At least David Caruso is over the top enough to make it amusing.
Yeah, even one of my kids said, in shocked tone of voice, “This is a PILOT!”
Think it’ll be CSI-LA or LAPD? And is Brass moving to the new show (which he deserves and could carry as the Sipowicz of the second half of the decade)?
I was wondering that too. However, I don’t see anything about a CSI:LA on iMDB or Google. The forum moderator at csiguide.com says:
The Vegas and Miami shows that spun off Miami and NY respectively introduced all of the new characters. Last night’s episode, “Hollywood Brass,” introduced Brass’s old friend/colleague/whatever (Donna Murphy), and barely showed the de rigeur “male CSI.” No LA crime lab peeps to speak of.
I don’t know if I could handle another series. Then again, I always wonder which actor’s dead career the franchise could revive next. I vote for Abe Vigoda.
I thought it was rather slow. And is Ellie not his biological daughter after all?
And where have I seen the lady police captain before? She looks very familiar. Maybe on some Law and Order episodes?
No, she’s not his daughter–I can’t remember if we learned that in the earlier episode about her (second season, I believe) or not.
Donna Murphy played Captain Annie, and I recognized her from both Spiderman 2 (Doc Oc’s wife) and the Star Trek movie about the people who didn’t age. I don’t care enough about that one to remember the name.
Something that hit me after it was over and I wish I had picked up on, if true: What exactly was the name of the gun club where Brass went?
If I’m not mistaken, it was the Beverly Hills Gun Club.
You can’t tell me a hooker who looks like THAT would have a hard time getting clients? She was a hottie for sure. My dad was like, “You’ve been to Vegas and LA, do hookers really look like that?” The answer came shortly after when we switched over to South Park and was introduced to the character “Nut Gobbler”.
They already have enough corpses on this show.
Insurrection. I knew I’d seen her before!
I liked it. Paul Guilfoyle got a chance to do something apart from being Captain Exposition and a deliverer of witty epithets, the role he’s usually relegated. Even though the plot itself was rather predictable, and the identity of the killer was pretty much spoon-fed with the close-up on Vic’s tiebar, I liked what we got to see of Brass and his personal life.
I seriously doubt that this means we’ll see CSI: LA (thankfully), but I thought it was nice to see something a little different, and not just in the gimmicky sense like last week’s episode.
My recurring thought…Simpsons Spin-off Showcase!
Right away, my wife asked if I thought this would lead to CSI: Los Angeles, and I told her I certianly hoped that it would not.
The problem is that the original makes a hit show because it took a bunch of nobodies, caught them up in the fascinating world of forensics, and pretty soon we’re all loving them and the show that they are an indeliable part of.
Sadly, you can’t just say, “Hey, I hear David Caruso/Gary Sinise/Bruce Campbell* is out of work. Since the original CSI was such a big hit, why don’t we ring him up and try to build a scientific police drama around him, only set in a different city?”
As much as I’ve tried to stomach it, the results (CSI: New York and * CSI: Miami*) seem to be largely crap, and both my wife and I find ourselves returning to the original.
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- If they got Bruce Campbell, the show would cease to seriously portray a crime lab and would likely degenerate into some other kind of show entirely. I could probably watch that.
I was just about to say that. CSI: Brisco County.
Oooh … DNA tests run by Deadites!
Maybe they will call it some else? 