A CBS TV show, now going into its 7th season CSI: Miami is a TV show about a team of Miami-Dade Police Department forensic investigators who solve crimes using cutting edge scientific technology. They also use DNA to determine who the culprits are. This TV show is a very fast paced Drama, and Action/Adventure show. CSI: Miami was inspired by CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Unlike CSI: Crime Scene Investigation where there are two separate unrelated crimes to solve, the crimes in CSI: Miami are usually linked together somehow. In each episode of CSI: Miami the team of forensic investigators work to solve each crime by carefully collecting and analyzing each piece of evidence that they find at the crime scene. Then they track down anyone who could be or is a suspect, and then they question them. This team of forensic investigators is always backed by the Miami-Dade Police Department.
The team of forensic investigators consists of Horacio Cane; a former homicide detective who leads his team of investigators with his calm and unique way of catching the bad guys, Tim Speedle; a criminalist who died of duty while investigating a crime, Eric Delko; the finger print and drug expert who is also the teams underwater recovery expert who knows all of Florida’s waters, Alexx Woods; the coroner who knows it all and left near the end of season 6, Calleigh Duquesne; CSI Supervisor who is really good with ballistics and firearms is also very good with questioning suspects, She is very tough and will not take crap from anyone, Ryan Wolfe; specializes in blood and trace evidence, Megan Donner; the DNA specialist, Natalia Boa Vista; the trainee, who is another DNA specialist, Detective Frank Tripp; the police officer, and Dr. Tara Price, the new Daytime Medical Examiner.
Every episode runs through basically the same format. It always starts off by showing the crime, but not showing who did it. Then they bring in the main actors who will sometimes run into their own problems. The characters also have their own story going through the whole season like when someone gets injured or is having family trouble, it is somehow tied into every episode until the problem is fixed or the person is healed. In each episode there is a new case which eventually turns into two because the investigators will find another crime while trying to solve the first one. Pretty much every episode will end when they find out who did it, but they always show something at the end of the episode to really make you want to see the next one.
Analysis:
There are many patterns that run through CSI: Miami. In every episode there is a new crime that is committed, solved, and then the bad guy(s) are put in jail or let go because there wasn’t enough evidence to convict them. The investigators always question a few different people and then it usually leads back to the husband/wife or the secretary of the person who they think may have committed the crime. Each show follows the same format: commit a crime, question the suspects, find more suspects, question the suspects again, find evidence that supports who they think did it, and then put them in jail or let them go free because there wasn’t enough evidence.
CSI: Miami is different from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation because CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was located in Las Vegas. It is also different because CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has two different crimes that have been committed that are not at all linked to each other. The character set up is also basically the same; there is the head guy, who is the leader of the forensics team, and then there are the team members who do most of the investigating and lab work, and then there is the medical examiner that processes all of the dead bodies that come in.
There are many other television shows that are closely related to CSI: Miami like Crossing Jordan, Without a Trace, Cold Case, Law and Order… All of these shows have similar story lines, they all have a crime and then they solve the crime and put the bad guy in jail.
I think what a lot of people like to watch CSI: Miami for is because it is interesting to watch and sometimes even kind of fun to try to guess who you think did it. Also its setting is in Miami, Florida (even though it is mostly filmed in California) where it is warm and sunny most of the time. So it is nice to see all the palm trees and sunshine when it is below zero here.
If you want to see some of the video clips just go to this website:
http://www.buddytv.com/tvshow/page/csi-miami-videos-1.aspx
The team of forensic investigators consists of Horacio Cane; a former homicide detective who leads his team of investigators with his calm and unique way of catching the bad guys, Tim Speedle; a criminalist who died of duty while investigating a crime, Eric Delko; the finger print and drug expert who is also the teams underwater recovery expert who knows all of Florida’s waters, Alexx Woods; the coroner who knows it all and left near the end of season 6, Calleigh Duquesne; CSI Supervisor who is really good with ballistics and firearms is also very good with questioning suspects, She is very tough and will not take crap from anyone, Ryan Wolfe; specializes in blood and trace evidence, Megan Donner; the DNA specialist, Natalia Boa Vista; the trainee, who is another DNA specialist, Detective Frank Tripp; the police officer, and Dr. Tara Price, the new Daytime Medical Examiner.
Every episode runs through basically the same format. It always starts off by showing the crime, but not showing who did it. Then they bring in the main actors who will sometimes run into their own problems. The characters also have their own story going through the whole season like when someone gets injured or is having family trouble, it is somehow tied into every episode until the problem is fixed or the person is healed. In each episode there is a new case which eventually turns into two because the investigators will find another crime while trying to solve the first one. Pretty much every episode will end when they find out who did it, but they always show something at the end of the episode to really make you want to see the next one.
Analysis:
There are many patterns that run through CSI: Miami. In every episode there is a new crime that is committed, solved, and then the bad guy(s) are put in jail or let go because there wasn’t enough evidence to convict them. The investigators always question a few different people and then it usually leads back to the husband/wife or the secretary of the person who they think may have committed the crime. Each show follows the same format: commit a crime, question the suspects, find more suspects, question the suspects again, find evidence that supports who they think did it, and then put them in jail or let them go free because there wasn’t enough evidence.
CSI: Miami is different from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation because CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was located in Las Vegas. It is also different because CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has two different crimes that have been committed that are not at all linked to each other. The character set up is also basically the same; there is the head guy, who is the leader of the forensics team, and then there are the team members who do most of the investigating and lab work, and then there is the medical examiner that processes all of the dead bodies that come in.
There are many other television shows that are closely related to CSI: Miami like Crossing Jordan, Without a Trace, Cold Case, Law and Order… All of these shows have similar story lines, they all have a crime and then they solve the crime and put the bad guy in jail.
I think what a lot of people like to watch CSI: Miami for is because it is interesting to watch and sometimes even kind of fun to try to guess who you think did it. Also its setting is in Miami, Florida (even though it is mostly filmed in California) where it is warm and sunny most of the time. So it is nice to see all the palm trees and sunshine when it is below zero here.
If you want to see some of the video clips just go to this website:
http://www.buddytv.com/tvshow/page/csi-miami-videos-1.aspx
3 comments:
I love watching CSI. This show makes you really suspicious. And i agree with you, it is fun to try to guess who you think the murder of the crime is.
I think CSI really spawned the creation of so many other shows like it. Crime/Cop dramas were never extremely popular until CSI came around, and now there are numorous "wanna be" shows that are capitalizing on the idea. Who doesn't want to see sexy detectives, and officers working vice, solve complex crimes? Shows like Bones, Criminal Minds, Cold Case have all prospered from CSI's success.
Some shows have elevated the idea with adding new interesting elements to it with the creation of intelligent shows like Dexter (showtime). Dexter takes the CSI concept and completely changes the style with its own mix, even though the concept is based on a novel named, "Darkly Dreaming Dexter," by Jeff Lindsey. It involves a forensic detective type character by day who is also a serial killer by night. There is only one word for an idea like this and that is "genius."
I don't like the shows like cops and court tv they get old really fast. This is good show but it is kind of gory, so I don't watch it that much. Watching to many of these kind of shows can make you a little Suspicious of your friends and Neighbors or random people, so Beware.
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