2004 fall TV

CSI: NY is surprisingly good. I thought they were selling it as a procedural, but it turns out to be a gothic horror show, filling a nice niche that the demise of Millennium left open. I’m not sure if they’re taking liberties with the medicine on the show or not, but they are taking extreme liberties with the trigonometry, so I wouldn’t necessarily expect rigorous stuff from the show. And the actor they have playing the medical examiner was really struggling with his medical patter, and was unable to pronounce asphyxiate.  Maybe they’ll get him a coach.  CSI: Miami killed my favorite character in the first episode.  CSI is indeed going to dwell on Jorja Fox’s character’s possible alcoholism, because one addict on the show was apparently deemed insufficient.

Law & Order is bad this season. Profoundly, deeply, horribly bad. I stopped watching the premiere when Ron Silver uttered the line “You get to try my defendant, but I get to try the war [in Iraq].”

Lost: Is this a dinosaur show? I thought it was a people-stuck-on-an-island show. Greg Grunberg, one of J.J. Abrams’ regulars, had a nice cameo, and the show has several of my favorite character actors, including Daniel Dae Kim and Terry O’Quinn. The music is fun, too.

There are premieres of Cold Case and Without a Trace sitting on my TiVo hard drive, but I have not gotten desperate enough to watch them yet.

My verdict is watch CSI: NY if you like horror, Lost if you like fantasy, and maybe avoid the rest. (I’ll probably end up watching the other CSIs anyway. Jenn likes them, so they’re always recorded.)

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One Response to “2004 fall TV”

  1. mcgees.org » Blog Archive » CSI: Bizarro World Says:

    [...] I’ve discussed the show before, after the standalone (non-crossover) Pilot.  I remarked after that episode, “I’m not sure if they’re taking liberties with the medicine on the show or not, but they are taking extreme liberties with the trigonometry, so I wouldn’t necessarily expect rigorous stuff from the show.” [...]

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