This thread has some awesome summaries in it:
CSI: Miami - is this show a joke?I have long maintained that CSI: Miami is a comedy and everyone involved with the show knows except David Carouso. And everyone is forbidden to tell him.
Thankfully, CSI Miami was canceled last year.
From what I have read, David Caruso is not only a jerk in real-life, but also an idiot who could never remember his lines and they had to be written onto large poster boards off-camera, so he could remember what to say.
This is true too:
The original "CSI" was no less dumb but it just didn't seem that way because William Peterson is a good actor who appears to be really smart, and Marg Helgenberger is a good actor who appears to be really smart, while David Caruso and Emily Procter are dreadful.
Other than that, however, they're basically the same. CSI had plenty of ridiculously stupid stories. People watch police procedurals for the procedural, not the police.
None of the CSI franchise are in the same league as shows like
Waking the Dead.
Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West.