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DVD C.S.I. Miami - The Complete First Season
As Lt. Horatio Caine (David Caruso) notes in episode 4 ("Just One Kiss"), "The evidence, as always, will speak for itself." In other words, CSI: Miami follows the same super-successful formula as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Fortunately, this instantly popular spin-off established its own unique identity from the start. Like CSI, the Dade County criminalists of CSI: Miami solve murders using forensic science. Unlike the Vegas crew, however, they're cops with the power to arrest, their coroner (Alexx Woods) talks to dead people, and almost everybody speaks Spanish. Sometimes their crime scene is a swamp, sometimes a resort hotel. Either way, the skies are always sunny--the gators always biting. Real-life Florida resident Caruso is joined by Khandi Alexander (NewsRadio) as Woods, Emily Procter (The West Wing) as ballistics expert Calleigh Duquesne, Adam Rodriguez (Roswell) as underwater recovery expert Eric Delko, and featured player Rory Cochrane as Tim "Speed" Speedle. Cochrane (Dazed and Confused) wouldn't become a full-fledged cast member until the 12th episode ("Entrance Wound"). Meanwhile, Kim Delaney (Caruso's former NYPD Blue cast mate) wouldn't join until the first ("Golden Parachute"), but left after the 10th ("A Horrible Mind"), reportedly due to a lack of chemistry with Caruso.
Just as CSI has made the most of its location with stories about showgirls and casino owners, so has CSI: Miami exploited its surroundings for all they're worth. Pilot episode "Cross-Jurisdictions" (a crossover with CSI), for instance, was loosely based on the murder of Miami-based designer Gianni Versace. Other notable episodes include "Camp Fear" with Joan of Arcadia's Amber Tamblyn as a detention camp cadet and "Dead Woman Walking" with Karen Sillas (Under Suspicion) as a victim of radiation poisoning. Like its parent program, CSI: Miami quickly became a ratings powerhouse and was followed by CSI: New York in 2004. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Review(s): DVD C.S.I. Miami - The Complete First Season
One of the Best Shows on TV
What could be better than watching grizzly crimes in the sunny state and not watching the increasingly repetitive Law and Order? Not much except watching Galactica Seasons 1 and 2. Some would say that L&O has no lost touch and that may be true. However there is a very limited number of changes from one show to the next in terms of plot twists (like it was grandma that killed the father or it was the kid that comitted patricide). All of the crimes are gritty and realistic instead of fighting over warrants and legal mumbo jumbo. CSI Miami RULES!!!
Acting varies, plots too pat
One big problem I have with this show is that David Caruso forgot that he was once a very good actor. I've enjoyed his work in NYPD Blues and other movies. In CSIM he gives the same facial expression. What happened to the actor who could make you care about him?
The rest of the cast is okay. Only Alexx Wood is a unique and charismatic character. Too much of the show is eye candy. I read that this is the world's most popular show. Remember when it was Baywatch? Too bad, there's a lot of wasted talent. Some episodes can be entertaining but the character interaction is superficial.
Gave it a Chance but...
I really did give this a chance but I can't say I like the show. It focuses more on the "police" aspect and less on the science, which differentiates the CSI series from most of the other garbage out there. I know David Caruso has his fans but I just can't appreciate him in this vehicle...
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I watched about 3 episodes of the original CSI and I thought they were so boring, I couldn't understand all the hype. So, they figure out through investigating the evidence "who done it". I guess it was just way too dark for me or it might have been the characters didn't intrigue me. Then I picked up a disk with C.S.I. Miami and I was hooked.
I know people say they don't like David but I find his character intriguing. I guess I like it that he has more depth then any of the characters that I saw on CSI. Truth I like all the characters on CSI Miami.
might have to try CSI again More Info about this DVD Actor(s): David Caruso DVD Release Date: Released the 04 January 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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What do you get when you transplant CBS's successful franchise to the Big Apple? Cases involving sewer rats as witnesses, a victim whose head was slammed in a pizzeria oven, and murders of commodities traders, and--of course--a Red Sox fan. Fun as that may sound, CSI: NY is a bleaker, grimmer version of its Las Vegas and Miami cousins. The team is made up of a pleasantly New Yawk but indistinct cast of characters: Detective Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes), Detective Don Flack (Eddie Cahill), medical examiner Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper) and younger CSIs Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Aiden Burn (Vanessa Ferlito, who has since left the show). Their leader, Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise), fares better as one of the few characters in the CSI franchise to have a... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Gary Sinise DVD Release Date: Released the 18 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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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 Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 30 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The nation's top-rated program got back to basics for its fourth season. The personal lives of the Las Vegas crime scene investigators would take more of a backseat to the stories themselves: the victims, the cases, the criminals. After a successful operation, William Peterson's Gil Grissom has regained his hearing--and his Manhunter-era beard--and is back in fighting form. "You're like your old self," Captain Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) notes in "All for Our Country." Just in time, as he'll soon be promoting one of his staff to lead CSI, and it's between Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) and Nick Stokes (George Eads). He also has a new politically minded sheriff with which to contend, Rory Atwater (24's Xander Berkeley). The latter will make his first of several appearances in "Invisible... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): William Petersen DVD Release Date: Released the 12 October 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Murder, and its tale-telling aftermath, is the compelling subject of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Since it premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000, CSI was a ratings triumph, spawning a spinoff (CSI: Miami) and positioning itself for long-term success. As the first season demonstrates, creator Anthony Zuiker's foolproof formula was established early on, bolstered by a fine ensemble cast and requiring minimal tweaking as the season progressed; its Las Vegas-based "criminalists" eventually became "CSI" steeped in the scientific minutiae of forensic investigation, but the series arrived essentially intact, with an irresistible (and seemingly inexhaustible) supply of corpses and the mysteries that surround them. Influenced by the graphic precedent of movies like... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 25 March 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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