Not too often - about once or twice a season - CSI: Miami goes a little overboard in weirdness, but usually - unlike the Las Vegas show - they keep things reasonable sane. It looked like they were headed in that weird direction here, but the story settled down into a "routine" murder case.
I wondered the above because early at the murder scene. Medical examiner "Alex Woods" (Khandi Alexander) gives a short, ridiculous speech about "mojo" and "voodoo" and "Calleigh Dusquense" (Emily Proctor) goes along 100 percent with it. Puh-leeze! These are "scientists?" These CSI programs always plug "science" and "evidence" as meaning everything, yet we get this??!! It sounds hypocritical but basically the episode lets that nonsense fade away as the story develops. The case involves some studly-looking Fabio type who is strangled at a pool site just as a solar eclipse passes by. (That's what Alex said was "bad mojo.") All the hotties and beefcakes - which is all we ever see on CSI: Miami - are staring at the eclipse, so no one sees or hears the murder, even though it is right next to them! They also don't see another guy steal the dead man's metal briefcase! And, of course, the killer and the thief both walk away despite the bloody scene. Oh, well, credibility is not the strong suit of this entertaining program. It's the style, the colors, the crazy people that make it attractive to many people, including me.
I even put up with David Caruso's ultra-dramatic comments because they make me laugh out loud. He pulls a beauty in the opening scene here. I wonder how many takes it takes for Caruso to keep a straight face delivering these cornball lines! I enjoy them, though.
Enough of the criticism. The story got much better and saner as it went on despite the fact the thief tells CSI that he stole the contents because they included a serum that will help transform him into a wolf. He thinks it would be kind of cool to be a werewolf, or at least a big dog. Well, at least you see what I mean by the above statements.
Caruso ("Horatio") and the team then try to figure all of this out and they wind up with a lot of guys that sure guilty but, of course, only one of them is the killer. I won't say who. At least the episode turned out a lot better that it first looked.
I wondered the above because early at the murder scene. Medical examiner "Alex Woods" (Khandi Alexander) gives a short, ridiculous speech about "mojo" and "voodoo" and "Calleigh Dusquense" (Emily Proctor) goes along 100 percent with it. Puh-leeze! These are "scientists?" These CSI programs always plug "science" and "evidence" as meaning everything, yet we get this??!! It sounds hypocritical but basically the episode lets that nonsense fade away as the story develops. The case involves some studly-looking Fabio type who is strangled at a pool site just as a solar eclipse passes by. (That's what Alex said was "bad mojo.") All the hotties and beefcakes - which is all we ever see on CSI: Miami - are staring at the eclipse, so no one sees or hears the murder, even though it is right next to them! They also don't see another guy steal the dead man's metal briefcase! And, of course, the killer and the thief both walk away despite the bloody scene. Oh, well, credibility is not the strong suit of this entertaining program. It's the style, the colors, the crazy people that make it attractive to many people, including me.
I even put up with David Caruso's ultra-dramatic comments because they make me laugh out loud. He pulls a beauty in the opening scene here. I wonder how many takes it takes for Caruso to keep a straight face delivering these cornball lines! I enjoy them, though.
Enough of the criticism. The story got much better and saner as it went on despite the fact the thief tells CSI that he stole the contents because they included a serum that will help transform him into a wolf. He thinks it would be kind of cool to be a werewolf, or at least a big dog. Well, at least you see what I mean by the above statements.
Caruso ("Horatio") and the team then try to figure all of this out and they wind up with a lot of guys that sure guilty but, of course, only one of them is the killer. I won't say who. At least the episode turned out a lot better that it first looked.
