CSI: Vegas

I want to love it but come on, the clichés are killing me! Every scene has a handful. Who talks like that? And the supporting cast? Their roles are cliché as well. Sticking to the standard crime drama formula is too safe. Break out of the mold please! You can do better. This stellar cast of well loved veterans deserves better.

I Love murder mysteries, police procedurals and British murder Mysteries and the old CSI. So I Was excited to see a reboot of CSI Vegas... one of my favorite shows.

Super disappointed. I only gave it four points instead of 0 for the interest in how they solve the crime each week.

But zero stars for the protagonists. In the last episode, obnoxious Internet influencers were killing each other and I found it hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys. The main characters were as non-dimensional, arrogant, boring and one-sided as the criminals they were investigating.

Starting with the main boss. She is a poor woman's version of Oprah. Talks and looks like her and nags all her employees to death. Next, the two main young women. The largest Native American (Navajo) reservation in the world plus half dozen other Indian tribes are located near Vegas, and the only "diversity actress" they can find is a British Indian woman? So hard to believe! Her and the other hispanic woman seem indistinguishable, and they both have some type of relationship(?) with the eye candy investigator that is never explained.

Next the two men actors. The fact that he is super handsome does not excuse the fact that he has to be the most boring actor. Only The Asian American IT guy is, unbelievably, even more wooden and flat. The coroner? I still can't figure that one out. They seem to have a new one every week. The only positive normal interesting guy is the older man who quit his million dollar job as a scientist for a giant Dow type corporation to work as a common criminologist, a fact he boringly mentions half a dozen times each episode.

Helzgertrer (spelling), the only leftover from previous iteration of CSI, seems to pop up whenever with absolutely no rhyme or reason. She owns a casino, why is she back at work?

Earlier I mentioned that I love British mysterious. If u go into IMDB you will read that all the British actors have tons of education and training and it shows. Take a show like Vera, a middle age, grumpy, slumpy detective. She is100 times more interesting to watch than all the actors in this show combined.

Mandeep has about 5 expressions but without emotion. Her lackluster walking thru the lines detracts from a diverse and otherwise interesting group of cast members. Also, the actress heading CSI is rather lacking in the intensity that role requires! The show needs a dynamic leader with dimension. If you could replace those two with seasoned character actors/actresses it would improve the show overall. The previous leaders possessed layers, history, paradoxes and edginess that kept me returning to find out more, so far I can't get invested with these boring characters. This WAS such a well played series until they got into long drawn out storylines that eventually I just wanted it over with. Please don't fall into that trap again.

As a huge fan of all the CSI franchises (even Cyber) I was looking forward to this. I binged the first series and had high hopes with the return of a few familiar faces but something just didn't seem quite right. The camaraderie was missing between the characters, they just didn't gel and it seemed like they were literally just reading lines. No fluidity, it was obvious they were all strangers, yet in the original series you genuinely believed they were colleagues and friends at the same time. I've just started the 2nd series and it hasn't got any better. I am British and have lived and worked all over the UK yet Mandeep Dhillon's accent is overbearing and annoying to the point it's making me want to switch off. It seems forced. I doubt very much I will finish this series.

Season 1 with Gill and Sarah and Hodges was OK. Didn't have the cohesiveness of the original CSI but Sarah did a great job keeping up. Petersen felt very reserved and distant from Sarah. The 2nd season somehow just fell flat even with Catherine back. Overall, good acting by Lex Medlin, Matt Lauria and Paula Newsome and returning character guests, Gill, Sarah, Hodges and Catherine.

I do wish that Mandeep Dhillon and Aruana Guerra would disappear. Dhillon is way too over the top with her constantly surprised wide eyes and attitude. Guerra is just not a comfortable nor eexy character. The show has none of the brilliance and magic of the original. Maybe we're all too old and tired.