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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - New York - Complete Season 1
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My new favourite TV show
Review date: 2008-02-18 Rating: 10 out of 10
'CSI:NY' is the 3rd spin-off of the excellent CSI franchise and is set around the city of New York. This series is a lot more dark and grittier than it's Vegas and Miami counterparts, giving it a much more real and disturbing feel to it. Mac Taylor leads the team of CSI's played by the brilliant Gary Sinise, alongside Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes), Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo), Aiden Burn (Vanessa Ferlito), medical examiner Dr. Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper) and Detective Don Flack (Eddie Cahill).
The thing I like the most about the NY series is the character interaction seems a lot more natural than it does in the Miami series and the earlier Vegas series. I actually felt like the characters know and care for one another and this all adds to the realism of the show. The excitement and action seems much more subtle yet realistic that the other 2 shows and the writers also throw a lot of background on the lead characters into the mix so that you begin to build up their characters fairly quickly and even start to care about them yourself as the episodes go on. There's a couple of things that let the show down (as well as the other 2 CSI shows) like the endless coincidences to lead to the killer, or the wire-thick hairs they find at the scenes, but I guess this is to stop the show lasting forever and stop it from getting boring.
Stand-out episodes for me were the season finale "What you see is what you see", which throws Taylor right into the middle of a murder with him being the lead witness; "Tanglewood" which is about some of the street gangs in New York and also reveals some more on Danny's background; "Creatures of the Night" where the whole of Central Park is the crime scene and also "Til Death do we Part" where the grooms at weddings are dropping dead at the alter for no apparent reason.
Overall this is an amazing start to a great new series and is possibly my favourite of the 3 CSIs now.I just love the characters, the locations and the investigations and definitely will be watching the next 2 series of this show very soon!
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Reviews
Easily as good as the other CSI's
Review date: 2007-07-04 Rating: 10 out of 10
Each of the CSI franchise series has its own sense of identity and its own distinct 'feel' both in terms of the teams and the style of filming and set production. CSI NY has a darker look and feel - literally. Some of the scenes inside CSI HQ are almost Gothic in the way dark areas of shadow surround the areas of highlighted brightness where examinations and tests take place. The whole thing has a more subdued feel than either CSI LV or CSI Miami but the cityscape provides a much broader and varied panorama for dramas to take place.
Gary Sinese as Mac is superb - not the exuberance of Horatio nor the 'other worldiness' of Grissom - far more rooted in the real world with a weariness borne of the after-effects of and the physical proximity to 911. It's true that his team isn't yet as well developed or individualised as those in the other two CSI teams, but the pairing of Mac and Stella is probably the most believable and interesting in the whole CSI franchise.
This is definitely a series to catch if thus far you have only encountered CSI Miami or Las Vegas.
Not fantastic
Review date: 2006-06-21 Rating: 6 out of 10
As a massive csi fan i was optomistic about this especially when i heard Gary Sinese was the lead but i totally can not get into this what so ever, the cast seems totally wooden, it just doesnt have the style and grit of csi miami and the original csi which are both incredible.
How could you NOT love these shows?!
Review date: 2006-05-13 Rating: 10 out of 10
Okay, so I haven't actually bought this DVD set yet, but it is still one of the best shows on TV today. Why can't we Brits make shows like this?! Much preferable to Miami (Horatio Caine just makes me cringe), and on a par with the original CSI. I recommend this to anyone. Bring on the season 2 box set!
The best of the CSI franchises
Review date: 2006-05-08 Rating: 8 out of 10
I was a big fan of CSI: Crime Scene Investigations, but lost interest badly with CSI: Miami. With the arrival of CSI: New York, I'm hooked again.
The forensics sequences still drive me crazy (why is it that in every CSI show, the cigarette end found next to the victim ALWAYS* leads to the killer, never to some innocent bloke who just happened to have a smoke there half an hour before the murder?!), but this time round, we've got some real characters, rather than crime-solving robots. Gary Sinese is at his best since Apollo 13, and there is enough new talent here to keep us in films and TV for the next decade or so. The writers may slip in one too many corny lines now and then, as if they just can't hold themselves back, but much of the dialogue, particularly the "personal" bits, is spot-on.
So, minus a star for the annoying forensics stuff, but full-marks for the drama.
* except for one episode in Series 2 - keep 'em peeled!
Product Details/Specifications
Recording label: Momentum Pictures Home Ent
Manufacturer: Momentum Pictures Home Ent
EAN: 5060116720655
Binding: DVD
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2006-03-27
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2