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

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Creators:

Ann Donahue
Carol Mendelsohn
Anthony E. Zuiker

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | unknown

Release Date:

23 September 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

"I'm Horatio Caine, and this much I know. At CSI Miami we never Close." (UK tagline)

Plot:

The cases of the Miami-Dade, Florida police department's Crime Scene Investigations unit.

Plot Keywords:

Detective | Investigation | Crime Scene | Coroner | Police

Awards:

Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 19 wins & 24 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Mon. July 6	12:35 AM	CBS	Crime Wave	#3.7
Mon. July 6	12:00 PM	AETV	Grand Prix	#2.7

Cast

David Caruso	...	Lieutenant Horatio Caine (167 episodes, 2002-2009)
Emily Procter	...	Calleigh Duquesne (167 episodes, 2002-2009)
Adam Rodriguez	...	Eric Delko (167 episodes, 2002-2009)
Khandi Alexander	...	Dr. Alexx Woods (143 episodes, 2002-2009)
Rex Linn	...	Detective Frank Tripp / ... (122 episodes, 2003-2009)
Jonathan Togo	...	Ryan Wolfe (117 episodes, 2004-2009)
Eva La Rue	...	Natalia Boa Vista (88 episodes, 2005-2009)
Boti Bliss	...	Maxine Valera (75 episodes, 2003-2009)

Also Known As:

"CSI: Weekends" (USA) (promotional title)
"CSI: Miami" (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
"Les experts: Miami" (France) (Switzerland: French title) [fr]
"CSI Miami" (Greece) [el]
"CSI: Место преступления Майами" (Russia) [ru]
"CSI: Mesto prestupleniya Mayami" (Russia) [ru]
"CSI: Miami 3" (Japan) (third season title) [ja]
"CSI: Miami 4" (Japan) (fourth season title) [ja]
"CSI: Miami helyszínelõk" (Hungary) (new title) [hu]
"CSI: Miami" (Greece) [el]
"CSI: Miami" (Germany) [de]
"CSI: Miami" (Japan) [ja]
"CSI: Miami" (Finland) [fi]
"Miami helyszínelõk" (Hungary) [hu]

Runtime:

60 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Australia:MA (DVD rating) | New Zealand:R16 (Season one DVD Rating) | Spain:13 | Malaysia:U | Germany:12 (TV rating) (cut) | Germany:16 (original TV rating) | Hungary:16 | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:15 (cable rating) | Australia:M | Singapore:NC-16 | USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

Federal Aviation Administration Credit Union - 14600 Aviation Blvd., Hawthorne, California, USA

Company:

Alliance Atlantis Communications

Trivia:

"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000) star William Petersen was offered the chance to produce this show, but declined.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: In many exterior scenes, California hills are visible in the background. South Florida is mostly flat.

Quotes:

[to Horatio]
Det. Frank Tripp: Come on, don't you guys have some gizmo to track this thing? That blue light with the buzzers and bells or that mass-spectro-detecto-whatever-you-call-it thingy?

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Soundtrack:

Won't Get Fooled Again

CSI Miami - Not the worst show ever made

I have not seen every show ever made, but I'm sure that there have been at least 5 or 6 shows in the history of TV that have been worse than CSI Miami.

I saw CSI Miami for the first time last night. I thought it was stupefyingly bad. David Caruso's acting style has been the subject of numerous parodies, the way he punctuates every fifth word with an overplayed dramatic inflection (when he does his lines, he sounds as if he is reading a never ending series of voice overs for incontinence medication commercials) and the famous "taking the sunglasses off when he does the big line" thing. Unbelievably, Caruso did them all, over and over, in the 30 minutes of CSI Miami that I saw (I just could not watch the whole show). Doesn't this show have a director? Can't anyone restrain this guy?

As others have mentioned, the implausibility of the story lines is little too much to take. In one scene, Caruso is in a lab, doing all this time consuming evidence research and in the next scene he is shooting a kidnapper in the head - is the Miami PD that strapped for cash that evidence technicians are out doing the work of SWAT teams? Also, every suspect caved in and confessed when presented with a little bit physical evidence - did anyone see the OJ trial? OJ was confronted with a mountain of evidence, he stuck to his story and he is out playing golf right now. Real criminals don't confess so easily.

Fans of CSI Miami defend the plot holes and improbable story lines by crying artistic license. CSI Miami negotiates the gray area between serious drama and super hero sci-fi so badly that they may as well just give David Caruso a cape and have him fly from scene to scene.

Sorry CSI fans, I think there are better ways to kill an hour.