David Caruso at his apex:
“MY NAME IS KIT KAT. THIS IS NOT A DREAM.”
I think it started downhill last season and accelerated its fall this season.
I probably would still be watching it except for Earl and the Office moving to Thursday.
Maybe in a couple years I’ll be able to start watching the nightly repeat-a-trois on Spike and see an episode I haven’t seen before.
Just for the record, on www.jumptheshark.com, the leading vote-getter for the moment that the show jumped (excluding the people who voted for “Never Jumped” and “Day One”) is the episode with the plushies and furries.
I would have thought that “Nick In A Box” would have received more votes than that episode, because bringing in a special guest director is more along the lines of something that makes a show jump.
I jumped for me years ago.
But now it plays several times consecutively on Spike channel.
I get sucked in for 2-3 episodes then can’t stand it any more.
And I completely ignore all the spinoff. That redhead running the Miami one creeps me out just looking at him scowl and bark at everyone.
Another vote for “Jumped from Day One.” The opening credits might as well just be Grissom, stonefaced, atop a Great White (Caruso could be waving an arm in the air or something). The puns… lordy. Of course, I do watch from time to time, but it’s probably the only crime show I can turn off halfway through or right before the big reveal without feeling disappointed.
I still like the show. scuffles toe
I like the show, but I am getting really irritated with Catherine. The whole stupid Sam Braun thing (DUH of course you can’t work the case!). I also get irritated whenever one of them gets all insulted when another gets a commendation (get over yourselves are you children?)
CSI:Miami usually irritates me. I don’t like David Caruso. Funny side story - I went to a dinner theatre one night and it was a CSI theme. The actor they had doing the “Horaio” character was perfect. He kept crouching down and taking his sunglasses off, once even taking them off to reveal another pair.
it was hilarious.
That makes sense, actually. I remember that episode. It really freaked out me and my friend who was watching it with me (we were higher than Everest) and actually I seem to recall it getting more and more out of touch around that time.
Yeah, I noticed this last night. It was about five minutes before the reveal and I up and offed to bed without even thinking about it–once in bed I realized that I had thought so little of the storyline that I had completely left it right before finding out what happened.
Poysyn, that sounds like a fun show.
I used to hate CSI: Miami – but it’s grown on me.
David Caruso is the new William Shatner. He knows he’s a cheeseball, and he turns it up to eleven. Now instead of wincing when he does something impossibly cheesy, I cheer!. Yeah!
Last night, there was an episode on where the crew had a rough day. At the scene of an unrelated violent crime, Delko discovered a nanny who’d kidnapped a baby girl from her neglectful mother. At the end, they give the baby back, of course, and fix things for the nanny, who had a Heart Of Gold, but there’s still concern about the baby.At the end, Horatio is standing out in front of the lab, and Delko walks up to him and engages him in some summary dialogue.
Delko says something like “I guess we just take it one day at a time.”
Horatio: “That’s right, Ryan, one day at a time.”
Delko turns around and walks back into the lab.
Horatio, squinting into the sun, wistfully continues, to no-one at all: “One day at a time.”
On review, it may not have been “One day at a time.” Might have been something about a box. It doesn’t matter what the actual dialogue was. The delivery was just so over-the-top hokey that it became something sublime.
And I like this new thing they’ve got going on with Horatio and Ryan’s pot-smoking, problematic, but Romantically Idealized blameless and beautiful cancer-patient sister.
He’s going toe-to-toe with the ADA over her, the whole lab is getting heaty, and it’s only going to get better when he starts nailing her. Please god let her get some of that freaky leprechaun lovin’. She’s already got something on hand for nausea.
Ryan’s eyeball injury is a little too much like Gil’s congenital hearing loss, though. Is it the reason why he didn’t ask the killer’s sister what that weird crap was all over her face? I swear it was dried jism. Maybe he was just being politic – but I thought it was going to be an obvious clue that someone else would question his complete oversight of. 
As for regular flavour CSI, it’s as good now as it ever was. And I like Kat’s tired whore look. TV tired whore is just fine with me. Grissom’s just getting cuddlier and nerdier. Cuddly nerds need a higher profile.
(I aspire to be a cuddly nerd as I spread out, and bony nerds get all the press.)
Ah, but that’s the brilliance of it. How else would you characterize a retired 40-something stripper desperately trying to cling to her fading sexuality in a city obsessed with such, than having her look the part? In fact, her character portrayal becomes even more effective and believable as she ages more and continues to try to squeeze into hip hugger slacks.
She is really my favorite of the main players, all of the rest of the mains are cookie-cutter bland clones of each other. The side characters (medical examiner, and detective) and junior lab staff tend to be the most interesting.
Mature, self-actualized characters make for boring TV.
Wolfe is such a dweeb. If only the nail had been a centimeter or so over.
I personally laugh out loud everytime Horatio says something like, “You just leave that to me, I’ll take care of it.”
It’s always about money.
How much money does he have, anyway?
Caruso just wants to be Hugo Weaving, or rather, Agent Smith.