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DVD C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation - The Complete Third Season
Now firmly established as the top-rated television drama, by its third year CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a show positively glowing with confidence. Even when individual cases seem either too contrived or too easily resolved, the indefatigable night shift at the Las Vegas PD crime lab always look the part, solving conundrums and discovering microscopic damning evidence while, apparently, never shedding their own loose hair or skin cells all over the supposedly quarantined crime scenes. In reality, Catherine Willows's flowing blonde locks would contaminate any evidence she collected, but in the world of CSI only the bad guys leave body parts behind--the CSIs themselves are so good they're positively pristine.
The 23 episodes of season 3 on this five-disc set present more deliciously bizarre situations for the problem-solving sleuths: cannibalism, snuff movies, dwarfs, death while drag racing, bodies falling from the sky, and various dismemberments all tax the team's acumen. These are all double or multiple-case episodes, though in a characteristic trick of the writing sometimes apparently unrelated murders turn out to be connected (or vice versa, as in "Blood Lust," in which a road-accident victim is not what he seems, and the death of the driver at the hands of an angry mob is made all the more tragic). The mix of genuine forensic science with the glossiest Jerry Bruckheimer production values, plus the virtues of a good ensemble cast headed by William Peterson's modern-day Sherlock Holmes, remains as compelling as ever. --Mark Walker
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CSI CONTINUES TO SHINE
Having absorbed the third season, it's amazing how this series continues to grow both dramatically and technically. In this season, apart from the usual puzzling crime scenes, the stars of the show find themselves in varying crises: Grissom's hearing loss gets worse and a decision must be made; Katherine's personal life undergoes a tragic change; Warrick finds himself involved in an internal affairs investigation; Sarah loses one love and contemplates a surprising replacement; Nick takes up a dangerous new hobby; and Brass continues to be his wonderfully sardonic self. We get dwarves, stand up comics, vigilantes, murderous actors and more. The cast as always is impeccable with William Petersen continuing to be the most complex character on television. Brilliant show just keeps getting better!
Still Going Strong
By the third season of any popular series, it's not unusual for creative plot ideas to slow down, the acting to become stagnant, and the show to generally weaken. Not so with CBS's runaway smash hit "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". Like its first two years, season three was full of drama, mystery, and episodes that kept viewers on the edge of their seats.
If season one introduced audiences to the world of forensic science and season two saw the characters become a bit more comfortable with each other, season three was full of action and character-driven drama previously unseen on the show. Gil Grissom (William Petersen) continued to struggle with his growing deafness and increasing chemistry with Sara; Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) managed to not only lose her ex-husband in a car accident but discover the identity of her father and blow up the lab. Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan) learned that personal actions have consequences for the victims in his cases, Nick Stokes (George Eads) began his ongoing competition with Sara for Grissom's approval, and Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) just plain had a bad year, from finding out she was her boyfriend's 'other woman' to nearly being killed in a lab explosion. Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda) continued on his quest to become a CSI, while Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) and Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) continued to process some of Las Vegas's craziest.
However, the personal dramas took a backseat to the reality of crime in Vegas as the nightshift continued to investigate some of the most compelling cases to date. 'The Accused is Entitled' featured a popular actor going up for murder and putting CSI on trial in the process (not entirely unlike what happened with OJ Simpson a decade earlier), 'Fight Night' took viewers into the underworld of boxing, and 'Inside the Box' combined the death of a police officer with mob ties and the high-stakes world of a casino mogul. In addition to these episodes, season highlights included 'The Execution of Catherine Willows', 'Random Acts of Violence', and the 90-minute episode 'Lady Heather's Box', a mini-movie that brought the return of infamous dominatrix Lady Heather (Melinda Clarke) in a mystery so full of twists it will have you glued to your chair.
In addition to all twenty-three season episodes, the DVD box set includes a tour of the police lab, a behind-the-scenes view of the writers' room, interviews with the cast, and episode commentaries full of information on how each episode comes together.
Having passed the sophomore hurdle, in its third season, "CSI" proved that it was capable of delivering quality entertainment, and is still going strong.
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