Now I want to see Jack Klugman read the phone book. He’s not as easy on the eyes (or ears) as Hennessey, but I’d like so see him get all Stanislavski on the Yellow Pages.
I would assume he flew into the airport, and they choppered him to the crime scene.
Khandi Alexander, 52 and still smolderingly hot. Can’t act to save her life though.
I second de Jill Hennesy/phonebook act and move to an immediate vote
NCIS has replaced CSI in our house. Better interplay with the characters.
I won’t hijack any further, but you have got to watch the fake opening credit sequence they made for this episode. I was in physical pain, I laughed so hard.
You and me both!
For those who think that David Caruso only has one signature move, I would like to suggest that you have underestimated his acting ability by half. In fact, here is a flowchart that captures his wide range: http://www.cracked.com/funny-116-david-caruso/.
I have long maintained that CSI: Miami is a comedy and everyone involved with the show knows except David Carouso. And everyone is forbidden to tell him.
I vote comedy otherwise it doesn’t make sense. Trust me, watch it as a parody and it’ll have you in stitches.
On a semi-related note, here’s one of the funniest thingsthat’s ever come out of it. Why this meme didn’t take off is beyond me but if I had the skills to make these mash ups I could think of tons of them.
I actually liked that episode. However…
Yes, CSI: Miami is the worst CSI. David Caruso is mostly the reason why it sucks. His one-liners are annoying and the ways he manages to get out of dangerous situations are very unrealistic. Also, in later seasons, he became more pa vigilante than a cop.
Other reasons why it sucks:
- Ridiculous way they process their crime scene.
No shoe covers, no hair covers. Not even those uniforms with CSI written on it, that they use in CSI and CSI New York. Just gloves and a camera, and that’s it. - Suspects confess too easily. In many episode, man who plotted and carried out very complicated murder is presented with an evidence that links him with crime scene/victim, but it can easily be explained. However, he confesses to everything. He doesn’t even call his lawyer.
- They don’t focus on the science enough. They don’t colect and process enough evidence, which is what makes the good show interesting.
- Bad acting.
When it comes to the best CSI… I can’t decide between CSI: Las Vegas and CSI:New York. However, I need to admit that CSI: New York is the most human-like. Characters are as closest to the ordinary people as it can get in CSI shows: no nerds entirely focused on science or badass, borderline vigilante cops. Ordinary people who see crime investigating as their job (thar they are good at) and not as the whole purpose of their life. Does anyone else feel the same?
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I’ll give them a pass on most of the non-realistic aspects of the show. You only have about 45 minutes to tell your story, so you have to cut corners. So yeah, they do a few clicks on a computer and have info on [whatever] when in real live it might take several weeks (not a good formula for a TV program).
What I didn’t like was when they strayed from real-life science. In all three programs, there were episodes, where someone enlarged a photo, and got the image that was being reflected in the person’s eye, and used that image to help solve a crime. I know there were others, but that one really irritated me when they used it–and all three did.
I think this is the first time one of my threads has been re-animated, and I am super impressed with my OP! And I don’t even remember writing it!
OMG I am so old!
The original “CSI” was no less dumb but it just didn’t seem that way because William Peterson is a good actor who appears to be really smart, and Marg Helgenberger is a good actor who appears to be really smart, while David Caruso and Emily Procter are dreadful.
Other than that, however, they’re basically the same. CSI had plenty of ridiculously stupid stories. People watch police procedurals for the procedural, not the police.
Thankfully, CSI Miami was canceled last year.
From what I have read, David Caruso is not only a jerk in real-life, but also an idiot who could never remember his lines and they had to be written onto large poster boards off-camera, so he could remember what to say.
Dr. Loman: There was a semen in victim’s mouth.
Horatio Caine: The truth. Is always…
(puts on the sunglasses)
…hard to swallow.
I found your thread trying to get some answers into the glaring mistakes I was seeing on the shows.
I found this thread looking for some answers to the timeline inconsistencies I was seeing in the show. I originally looked on Facebook at some of the fan pages to try and have some questions answered or at least to find some validation of my questions and ‘wondering s’, but that was scary. There are many Facebook groups out there with this almost reverent stance of all things CSI generally and David Caruso specifically. It’s actually nauseating, check it out sometime ha ha
I think I primarily noticed it probably around the 2009 episodes so I guess I would be seasons 6/7? I’m not very organized and knowing which season or what episode it is for sure that I’m talking about. But my thought processes are relatively generic so I don’t think it matters too much.
I’ve been watching the show on DVR (WE channel I think has run them all…and mosly in order) and have caught pretty much most all of them and probably partway through the my viewings I was realizing that the crimes are solved all in 24 hours. I realize this because I was making note of the very cute clothing people were wearing (and like mentioned elsewhere in this thread by very modelicious people-only the bad guys are ugly and even then not very many of them) and they are wearing the same thing throughout the entire episode. Therefore meaning it was solved in the same day. But what’s really funny is there was one episode where a lady was recounting to the CSI ‘gods’ about a conversation she had with her husband had three days prior and in this flashback she’s wearing the exact same really pretty royal blue blouse with brass rings on the straps. That’s when I really started paying attention.
So then I’m realizing: not only are the amazingly impossible crime-solving abilities not feasible (I mean even the techniques that DO exist-versus the fake ones that they come up with as previously mentioned on this thread-take days to WEEKS to get results), but the CSIs seem to have incredible resilience to injury and or illness and bounce back in a nanosecond. This is really glaring to me as a three decade ICU nurse. For example: Callie runs into a burning building to save a little boy and ends up (because of a previous respiratory issue) intubated and on a ventilator where everybody on the team seems to have the time and ability to not only solve these crimes but also visit her in the hospital. Cut to the end of the show-which is the SAME DAY-and she standing in the morgue saying goodbye to the body of a little boy she couldn’t say. This does not happen ever!!! Then there was an episode where Ryan was involved in an F2 tornado in the building collapsed on him and he was going to go and find the bad guys, Boa Vista and Horatio almost died yet they got up off their ER gurneys to go solve the crime.
Also, where does Horatio Caine get all of the money to basically support half of Miami’s downtrodden?
I found this thread because I had googled is ”CSI a farce??”: thank you so much for helping me realize I’m not imagining the inconsistencies in this far-fetched drama…
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