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Years: 2009, 2010
Genre: TV series, Crime, Drama
Country: United States
Language: English
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, George Eads, Eric Szmanda, Robert David Hall, Wallace Langham, Paul Guilfoyle, Marg Helgenberger, Liz Vassey
Eye candy: Helgenberger, Jorja Fox (recurring), Natalie Gulbis, Scout Taylor-Compton, tons of other Vegas-style hotties
Guest stars: Rocco Mediate, Gary McCord, Duffy Waldorf, Nathan Kress
Creator: Anthony E. Zuiker
Run time: 17 hours 22 minutes
DVD distributor: Alliance Films
There has been enough cast turnover on CSI to make it feel as though it’s sort of a different show than it used to be. Sort of. I mean George Eads is still there. Doing stuff. And Marg Helgenberger is still there. Being crazy hot. Other than that, most of the cast is fairly new. Like Greg (Eric Szmanda) who is being given more and more to do with every passing season. And Laurence Fishburne, who’s a doctor and stuff. And…OK, that’s about it. The episodes are still pretty much the same. There’s some people who died. And the investigators figure out how, and at whose hand. And the next episode the same.
In this case (Season 10, which comes out September 28th from Alliance Films), there is a new wrinkle thrown in now and again. And again, and again, and again, and once more for good measure. Now, there’s a serial killer who operates on his victims and does weird stuff with their insides and takes a piece and leaves a piece and so forth. It would be OK if the Dr. Jekyll killer showed up once a season, like that serial killer who had the whole thing going with Grissom in the first few seasons. But even in episodes where Dr. Jekyll doesn’t show up, he is being referenced. Is THIS the work of the Dr. Jekyll killer? Oh, no. It isn’t. Moving on…
CSI has decided, much like every other show on TV and in the history of mankind, that each and every season must end with a cliffhanger, where the life of one of the cast members hangs in the balance. I guess they assume we don’t read the tabloids between shows – we know when William Peterson is leaving and when Laurence Fishburne is staying before every season starts. And if we don’t, the summer break has been so long that we no longer remember or care what happened (or is GOING to happen) to a particular character. Or, at least, I don’t. And when it comes to the DVD sets – one year apart – I really don’t expect to be holding my breath for a year. I guess I could just watch the opening episode of Season Eleven on TV to find out what happens to Ray. But I won’t. Because I just don’t care. I still like this show, but cliffhangers? I don’t like it that much.