The Mentalist season 2 starts tonight!
CSI season 10 starts tonight
CSI Miami - Liked the flashbacks
CSI NY - Grim and dark
NCIS
NCIS LA
Criminal Minds - very disturbing. Thomas Gibson was good
Numbers
Cold Case

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Nice thread idea.

I enjoyed the CSI: premiere. Nice to see Sara again for a while, and it's evident the producers are actively addressing the chemistry problems that come with a big cast shake-up. Losing the dull Lauren Lee Smith and promoting the lab rats to more screentime is a good move. Building some stories around Catherine would be a good next step--they sometimes seem to forget what a great actress Helgenberger is when she has something to work with.

The case was interesting this week too, and the visual presentation was striking.

It was good to see the Lab rats in the credits.

Christian Clemenson -formerly Jerry Esponson on Boston Legal -has recurring roles on both CSI: MIami and The Mentalist. He is on The Mentalist tonight.

I thought Mia Kirshner was great on CSI New York. Nice to see Nadine Valezquez of My Name is Earl on the show as well.

Apparently as a sweeps stunt, Laurence Fishburne is going be on all three of the CSI: series.

Interesting. Further reading indicates he will start on CSI: MIami and then go to CSI: NY and the story will be resolved on Thursday CSI.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotr...i-cbs-crossover.html

Looks like the move to make Fishburne the star and face of CSI is still going strong.

Jenny Schecter (Mia Kirshner) was on "CSI: NY"?! Guess I need to check it now. Which episode was it? Okey, it's episode #4.

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Just watched CSI:'s Thursday episode, "Coup de Grace". One of the strongest episodes they've done in some time. Real characters, an actual investigation, and the larger issue of race relations within the police department underpinning it all. After watching NCIS and NCIS:LA this week, it really makes me appreciate how artfully CSI: is done. It's still TV's best procedural. And the strong direction from Paris Barclay was just icing on the cake.

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And the strong direction from Paris Barclay was just icing on the cake.

He has really gotten around, eh? He was an executive producer and the principal director of In Treatment and has directed random episodes of Glee (next week's episode), Sons of Anarchy, The Mentalist, Cold Case (also co-executive producer), Monk, Weeds, The Shield, Lost ("Stranger in a Strange Land"), House ("Three Stories"), The West Wing, ER and NYPD Blue (two Emmys and one DGA for directing, also supervising producer).

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Originally posted by adamunc:
Just watched CSI:'s Thursday episode, "Coup de Grace". One of the strongest episodes they've done in some time. Real characters, an actual investigation, and the larger issue of race relations within the police department underpinning it all. After watching NCIS and NCIS:LA this week, it really makes me appreciate how artfully CSI: is done. It's still TV's best procedural. And the strong direction from Paris Barclay was just icing on the cake.

You are right about the quality of Coup de Grace. It was a great episode and the final scene was really well done. Paris Barclay deserves an Emmy nomination.

Will ratings go up or stay flat or down? Imagine if Peterson did this if he didn't hate the spinoffs? This is a lot of Fishburne.

I have to say CSI is stil so much better this season so far than it has been forawhile .......

'CSI' crossover last night: Did Laurence Fishburne learn to talk like David Caruso?
by Ken Tucker
Categories: Fall TV 2009, Review, TV Last Night

The Great CSI Crossover That William Petersen Never Would Have Agreed To started last night, as CSI’s Laurence Fishburne went to CSI: Miami to watch David Caruso do his sunglasses-and-murmur thing up real close.

Fishburne’s Ray Langston didn’t show up until almost mid-way through the hour, but by the three-quarter mark, he had already adopted Horatio Caine’s low-volume, no-contractions, pregnant-pause style:

“Horatio, I am not leaving until we solve this thing,” said Langston.

Horatio moved in close, facing Ray sideways, as he does with all human contact. “And that,” he said, taking a pause during which Jay Leno could have delivered an entire monologue, “… is good news.”

The overarching crime case involves a nationwide human-trafficking ring that coerces young women into prostitution and then sometimes kills them. Langston was called in from Las Vegas when a victim from that city turned up in Miami.

Upon greeting Langston, Caine says Ray should say hello to Catherine Willows for him: “Tell her when you see her that I’m sorry about Warrick Brown.”

Jeez, for such a caring cop, Horatio is awfully slow in writing sympathy cards, isn’t he? Didn’t Warrick die about two years ago?

These little attempts to tie the franchises together were strained, but maybe fans of Miami didn’t mind. Me, I watch the original CSI, but Miami has dropped off my radar: Too much orange in every sun-dappled scene, too much moss growing on David Caruso’s dialogue before he delivers it.

What did you think, CSI viewers? Will you be following Fishburne’s Langston as he moves on to CSI: NY tomorrow night?

Langston goes to New York.

I thought the Miami episode was pretty painful--clunky dialogue, obvious set-ups, huge leaps in the investigation that were based on plot convenience rather than good forensics work... and half the show is shot through these reflective glass panels that seem designed to show off the cinematographer's technical skills.

The original Vegas version is still the gold standard.

Trilogy story ends in Las Vegas.

Fisburne was able to establish a stronger identity in the trilogy so it was a success.


L.A. Laker Pau Gasol guests on CSI Miami tonight.

I have the second and third parts DVRed. I find the New York show unenjoyable, so if I skip that and go straight to the Vegas finale, will I be lost?