CSI: Miami

We had the first episode of Series 8 here in UK last night: "Out of time". Out of time indeed! Flashback to 1997 (looked more like 1967) when Forensics were still in the Stone Age.

David Caruso's make-up resembled (and possibly was) Polyfilla; and they must have paid nearly $6 for that ginger rug he was wearing! Something weird done to Delko's hair as well - the result looked like a jumbo-sized Brillo pad (is that what Latinos were sporting in '97?)

The Miami team is noted more for striking poses than for its thespian and investigative skills, but this was like a parody of a parody. Aka a travesty. Really only the New York series still has any 'edge'; Vegas and Miami are running out of steam and maybe need to join Dallas and Dynasty in the TV graveyard.

Ah! Terrible the day my brother chose this CSI compilation as my Christmas gift! An odyssey to play them all! Yet there are only 3 games so it could have been worse! This time, the cases are located in Miami. Indeed, it is less dark than Las Vegas but the cases are as boring as ever: (alligator, the nightclub, the love boat, the sunburn, the mad judge). You still got not interactivity, the proofs analysis remains unchanged and the only positive addition is the puzzle time. I also discovered that Miami is a bit like Venice because large parts of the town are surrounded by water. But the game didn't motive me to go there either nor to watch the show!

I liked all the detectives on that show. They sharp, confident and had a passion to get the criminal. The criminals were great too. Good directing is what kept it going for so long and a good run. Why another of Jerry Bruckheimer's classics was cancelled I just don't get it.

plus the stupidly hammy Alex's Mommy complex re her corpses...

all the comments above sum up my own disgust with Caruso... does he own the show, or what?... i can't believe someone that awful can continue to be paid for nauseating the viewers, unless he does... or maybe has some really juicy blackmail material to hold over the heads of the producers...

and what's with the trailer showing the best of all the cast members, Kally (sp?) getting killed off, when we're all pulling for Caruso to get the ax?... or did she get as sick of Caruso's idiotic posturing as we are and opt out?...

As a longtime CSI LV fan it is so upsetting to see how the terrible acting of David Caruso makes CSI Miami unbearable to watch. The overacting in each episode is painful including the repetitive head tilt, glasses on and glasses off and hands on hips. Every show I have tried to watch it is always the same. Hummers only for the CSI team (not for the police), Kaine shooting guns with glasses on all while wearing dark clothes in Miami heat. All are totally ridiculous. The most irritating of all of Caruso's acting quirks is the fact then when people are talking to him he never looks them in the eye and each scene his is in usually ends with a rhetorical question. It makes a serious show comical and campy. There are other cast members that can carry part of the show but Caruso really needs to have fewer lines and less airtime!