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"CSI: Miami" (2002)TV series 2002-????

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User Rating: 6.9/10 (5,339 votes)
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Overview

Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | unknown more
Release Date:
23 September 2002 (USA) more
Tagline:
"I'm Horatio Caine, and this much I know. At CSI Miami we never Close." (UK tagline) more
Plot:
The cases of the Miami-Dade, Florida police department's Crime Scene Investigations unit. full summary
Awards:
Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 16 wins & 20 nominations more
User Comments:
Verdict; Stick to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation more

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 9 of 142)

David Caruso ... Lieutenant Horatio Caine / ... (142 episodes, 2002-2008)

Emily Procter ... Calleigh Duquesne (142 episodes, 2002-2008)

Adam Rodriguez ... Eric Delko (142 episodes, 2002-2008)

Khandi Alexander ... Dr. Alexx Woods / ... (142 episodes, 2002-2008)
Rex Linn ... Detective Frank Tripp / ... (96 episodes, 2003-2008)

Jonathan Togo ... Ryan Wolfe (91 episodes, 2004-2008)

Boti Bliss ... Maxine Valera (66 episodes, 2003-2008)
Eva La Rue ... Natalia Boa Vista / ... (62 episodes, 2005-2008)

Sofia Milos ... Detective Yelina Salas / ... (57 episodes, 2003-2008)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
60 min (including commercials)
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Spanish
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Germany:12 (TV rating) (cut) | Argentina:13 | Spain:13 | Germany:16 (original TV rating) | Hungary:16 | Australia:MA (DVD rating) | New Zealand:R16 (Season one DVD Rating) | Malaysia:U | Australia:M | Singapore:NC-16 | USA:TV-14
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Sela Ward was offered the role of Megan Donner but turned it down. more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Numerous times a character will refer to Miami University. Miami University is located in Oxford, Ohio; the University of Miami is located in Florida. more
Quotes:
Calleigh Duquesne: Why fill in the number? Why not just sand it all the way down?
Tim Speedle: I don't know. Maybe it's a guy thing.
Calleigh Duquesne: What? They'll add on or cover up, but they won't mess with the chassis?
Tim Speedle: You know what, you're scaring me.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) more
Soundtrack:
Won't Get Fooled Again more

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13 out of 20 people found the following comment useful:-
Verdict; Stick to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, 25 January 2006
1/10
Author: HalloweenShape31 from United States

After "discovering" the original CSI television show, hearing great things about this spin-off, seeing its high ranking in the weekly ratings, and enjoying the pilot episode (the second season CSI episode, "Cross-Jurisdictions"), I was really looking forward to seeing CSI: Miami. Upon viewing the first season, I found it to be pretty unfulfilling, and it left me with no desire to watch the second season. However, I decided to give it another shot and watched the second season, which I enjoyed much more than the first. While I still thought the case stories were poor, the second season was where the main characters' personal lives began to take up some of the episodes, which I found to be the best thing the series had going for it (especially the subplot of Horatio's brother and his possible corrupt ways, as well as Horatio's feelings for Yelena). But upon starting to watch the first eight episodes of the third and fourth season, I found myself getting the same bitter taste in my mouth.

I believe that the way the CSI writing team works is, they save all of the very talented writers who have new, fresh, and great ideas to the original CSI show, while they assign their writers with not as much flair, but the ability to turn out a script every week for the spin-off shows. The sad thing was I really wanted to like this show, and I keep going back to it, trying to give it another chance, however each time it fails to win me over. The unfulfilling and often predictable cases (the original show's cases are almost never predictable, even if there is a formula that all three shows follow), the corny one-liners that Horatio spits out before every episode's opening credits (usually spoken while putting on his sunglasses to make him look "cool"), and the lack of flair that made the original show so good, keeps this one from making the grade. I like the character of Horatio, but David Caruso (and/or the writers) take his character a bit too far with his constant threats to suspects and caring for victims. The show focuses too much on having Horatio get into a gunfight and trying too hard to make Caruso seem like the new Rick Hunter rather than show how the science solves a case. Notice that in this show, the Miami CSI's are always the first to enter a house with their guns drawn, whereas in the original show, they always have Brass and a few uniformed officers clear the scene before they enter. The idea of using a tsunami and hurricane as the backdrop for stories were good, but they were just wasted. The only episode that I can think of which even comes near to the greatness of the original show is the first season episode "Broken," about the child killer. That episode possessed some of the same shocking and original content that made the original show so great. I'll even so far to say that the sloppy handling of this show impairs my love for the original CSI. When the fifth season of CSI was released on DVD, I found myself unexcited to watch it, having just previously spent so much time giving CSI: Miami another chance. That was until I had gotten two episodes into it, and was quickly reminded just how great the original series is.

It's really too bad that I can't get into this show like so many others have, but I can't say I didn't give it a real hard try. And after my dislike for this show and my being unimpressed with its pilot episode, I think I'll pass on CSI: NY.

My personal verdict: stick to the original.

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