CSI Miami takes on the Kennedys (uh, Hamiltons)

CBS television series | 10-13-02 | patriciaruth

[patriciaruth]

Vanity.

I was just blown away by CSI Miami starrring David Caruso, CBS's spinoff of the popular CSI starring William Peterson that is set in Las Vegas.

The plot involved a powerful political family with a beach front estate in Miami area and another in Vermont, a rape by a nephew of a powerful politician, who has a history of having left a woman to die in a car he was driving.

Sound like anybody we know?

There were some memorable lines that were so gutsy that one must assume that a certain real political family is losing its grip on power, and it also seems to indicate that conservative thematic material has just broken through into the television entertainment industry.

One may wonder how the liberals will like it now that one of their icons (thinly veiled) is attacked in an entertainment show as many of ours have been as well as our values so regularly for decades.

[patriciaruth]

Did anyone else see this show?

[dennisw]

All I know is David Caruso did some very nice work in a few "B" movies in the last ten years. One was "Kiss of Death"

 

 

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[Diver Dave]

Yeah, I saw that and came to the same conclusion.

Condit was mentioned in one show last week.

[patriciaruth]

As the Hamilton character is about to be arrested for a murder he committed to coverup the rape committed by his nephew, he muses about the genetic material that proved his involvement in a murder, and how to stop the effects of what the DNA propeled him to do.

And Horatio (the Caruso character) says, "Stop procreating."

[dennisw]

And Horatio (the Caruso character) says, "Stop procreating."

That's a good one liner.

I was just blown away by CSI Miami starring David Caruso, CBS's spinoff of the popular CSI starring William Peterson that is set in Las Vegas.

William Peterson was a very good actor ~15 years ago when he did "To Live and Die in LA", one of my favorites. He also did "Manhunter" which has been re-made into the 3rd Hannibal Lector movie, movies which I am not a fan off.

[patriciaruth]

Another thing the Horatio character said about the old car accident Hamilton caused was that the woman did not need to die, that if the Hamilton character had called for help from the road she could have been saved.

[FlyVet]

Didn't see it, was watching the baseball game, but CSI is one of the few TV shows I watch. The forensics shows are all usually pretty cool, they don't throw politics into the mix and make you think. Unlike the law and medical dramas who need to portray conservatives as idiots. I don't watch much TV anyway, whatever my rabbit ears pick up (FlyVet is a throwback to the Stone Age).

[patriciaruth]

That role in 'To Live and Die in L.A.' by Peterson was cold and tough. Very well done.

[patriciaruth]

They'll probably have an anti-conservative show next week just to prove they are fair, but what is so incredible is that this script made it past the trashcan and onto the flickering tube.

NEVER would have made it pre-9/11, IMO.

[FlyVet]

NEVER would have made it pre-9/11, IMO.

Sometimes even the liberals admit conservatism is ok, very amazing. Frontline on PBS usually amazes me, they are capable of putting a "fair and balanced" show on. Also 60 Minutes has given accurate reports several times concerning Zimbabwe and S. Africa in the past few years. They don't always get it wrong. I just wish there was more of it.

[Nitro]

"To Live and Die in LA" also has the absolute best chase scene, many times better than "Bullit!!"

[Mary's Child]

Actually, I was quite surprised, especially at the "Stop procreating" comment.

[Elkiejg]

Unlike the law and medical dramas who need to portray conservatives as idiots.

I don't agree - I have become a fan of Law and Order - they're not afraid to use current topics to build a story for their show. Did you see the show that was almost word for word of the Condit/Levy scene? The kicker was that the WIFE HAD DONE IT!!

[Fellow Traveler]

To live and die in LA is one of my favorities as well. To the freeper who mentioned Manhunter thank you. I have been trying to remember the name of that movie for awhile.

I watch CSI every week. I tried CSI Miami a few weeks ago and did not like it. The show seemed to be too much about the David Caurso character. I may have to give it another try.

[Cosmo]

The Miami script-writing wasn't nearly as good as that of the "regular' CSI, in my opinion. Seemed like a cheap spin-off.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Yes, it was wonderful.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Sometimes even the liberals admit conservatism is ok, very amazing. Frontline on PBS usually amazes me, they are capable of putting a "fair and balanced" show on. Also 60 Minutes has given accurate reports several times concerning Zimbabwe and S. Africa in the past few years. They don't always get it wrong. I just wish there was more of it.

Just saw the movie "Sweet Home Alabama" this weekend. In which Candice Bergen playing the democatic mayor of New York grouses to her son about the poor white trash girl from Alabama that he wants to marry. Her son then replies "you're a democrat mother you're supposed to be for the poor people."

A small victory, but a victory nevertheless.

[JavaTheHutt]

I watched it. I noticed the similiarities between the Hamiltons and the Kennedys also.

It was good to see a shot get fired across the bow at the Hollywierd liberals

[Non-Sequitur]

I saw it and found the connection amusing but all in all the show itself sucks. It's like they tried to cross CSI with Miami Vice and wound up with the worst of both. I mean really, a coroner who carries on conversations with the stiffs she's cutting on? I'd say she spends entirely too much time with dead people. CSI, on the other hand, has a much stronger cast and the science still is the story in most of their episodes.

[tamikamaria]

I agree that CSI Miami isn't quite as good as the "real" CSI. IMO it would be a lot better if they got rid of Kim Delany. She just drives me nuts, all that twitching and those ridiculous clothes she wears. Like a real cop would wear skin tight, circus tent striped bell bottom pants to a crime scene. Come on!