Post by Jemma on Sept 25, 2008 14:18:00 GMT -5
Upbeat Reviews for CSI: Miami Premiere
Following the highly anticipated season 7 premiere of CSI: Miami, a critic said simply, “if you like this show, then you will like this episode.”
Even before last night's premiere, expectations were high as Horatio Caine's (David Caruso) sunglasses broke when he was shot on last season's finale. The broken sunglasses, after all, the central image when season 6 came to a close leaving CSI: Miami fans virtually on the edge.
“Those sunglasses stand in for everything that is just a little bit ridiculous about CSI: Miami,” wrote Pop Matters. “They seem a commentary on Miami as all affect and self-consciousness.”
As for the review of “Resurrection,” the maiden episode of the show's seventh season, most described it as at the very least “typical” of the Miami-based franchise.
“Tonight's episode is just what you'd expect from the series: beautiful people and places, explosions, gun battles, high-heeled investigators, Hummers, sunglasses and a bunch of twists and turns leading up to an ending you probably saw coming,” wrote TVaholic.
On the other, there are critics who commented on the show's sometimes tinkering dangerously on the realm of science fiction, with the insane high-tech nature of the series. "Some of the stuff in that lab looks like it should be on the Starship Enterprise [from Star Trek]," the review said, while adding that neither CSI or CSI: New York has gone this far in terms of pushing the limits of technology, in the process tainting the show's realism.
Then again, realism has ever since been a focal criticism of the CSI franchise, or how it allegedly gives a wrong impression of how real-life CSI solve cases.
For her part, Eva La Rue (Natalia Boa Vista) told TV Guide that when she got the script for "Resurrection, she read it cover-to-cover before finishing her morning coffee. "W.'re trying to get to the bottom of who killed Horatio and why, and it looks not so good for Ryan Wilfe (Jonathan Togo), like he might be implicated in some way and we're not sure what his involvement is … It's been a good, new exciting season. Lots to watch."
Even before last night's premiere, expectations were high as Horatio Caine's (David Caruso) sunglasses broke when he was shot on last season's finale. The broken sunglasses, after all, the central image when season 6 came to a close leaving CSI: Miami fans virtually on the edge.
“Those sunglasses stand in for everything that is just a little bit ridiculous about CSI: Miami,” wrote Pop Matters. “They seem a commentary on Miami as all affect and self-consciousness.”
As for the review of “Resurrection,” the maiden episode of the show's seventh season, most described it as at the very least “typical” of the Miami-based franchise.
“Tonight's episode is just what you'd expect from the series: beautiful people and places, explosions, gun battles, high-heeled investigators, Hummers, sunglasses and a bunch of twists and turns leading up to an ending you probably saw coming,” wrote TVaholic.
On the other, there are critics who commented on the show's sometimes tinkering dangerously on the realm of science fiction, with the insane high-tech nature of the series. "Some of the stuff in that lab looks like it should be on the Starship Enterprise [from Star Trek]," the review said, while adding that neither CSI or CSI: New York has gone this far in terms of pushing the limits of technology, in the process tainting the show's realism.
Then again, realism has ever since been a focal criticism of the CSI franchise, or how it allegedly gives a wrong impression of how real-life CSI solve cases.
For her part, Eva La Rue (Natalia Boa Vista) told TV Guide that when she got the script for "Resurrection, she read it cover-to-cover before finishing her morning coffee. "W.'re trying to get to the bottom of who killed Horatio and why, and it looks not so good for Ryan Wilfe (Jonathan Togo), like he might be implicated in some way and we're not sure what his involvement is … It's been a good, new exciting season. Lots to watch."
