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List Price: $64.99 | | Label: CBS Television
Salesrank: 2498
Released: June 29, 2004 |
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/01/2007 Rating: Nr
Description of C.S.I. Miami - The Complete First Season:
As Lt. Horatio Caine (David Caruso) notes in episode 4 ("Just One Kiss"), "The evidence, as always, will speak for itself." In other words, CSI: Miami follows the same super-successful formula as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Fortunately, this instantly popular spin-off established its own unique identity from the start. Like CSI, the Dade County criminalists of CSI: Miami solve murders using forensic science. Unlike the Vegas crew, however, they're cops with the power to arrest, their coroner (Alexx Woods) talks to dead people, and almost everybody speaks Spanish. Sometimes their crime scene is a swamp, sometimes a resort hotel. Either way, the skies are always sunny--the gators always biting. Real-life Florida resident Caruso is joined by Khandi Alexander (NewsRadio) as Woods, Emily Procter (The West Wing) as ballistics expert Calleigh Duquesne, Adam Rodriguez (Roswell) as underwater recovery expert Eric Delko, and featured player Rory Cochrane as Tim "Speed" Speedle. Cochrane (Dazed and Confused) wouldn't become a full-fledged cast member until the 12th episode ("Entrance Wound"). Meanwhile, Kim Delaney (Caruso's former NYPD Blue cast mate) wouldn't join until the first ("Golden Parachute"), but left after the 10th ("A Horrible Mind"), reportedly due to a lack of chemistry with Caruso.
Just as CSI has made the most of its location with stories about showgirls and casino owners, so has CSI: Miami exploited its surroundings for all they're worth. Pilot episode "Cross-Jurisdictions" (a crossover with CSI), for instance, was loosely based on the murder of Miami-based designer Gianni Versace. Other notable episodes include "Camp Fear" with Joan of Arcadia's Amber Tamblyn as a detention camp cadet and "Dead Woman Walking" with Karen Sillas (Under Suspicion) as a victim of radiation poisoning. Like its parent program, CSI: Miami quickly became a ratings powerhouse and was followed by CSI: New York in 2004. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
C.S.I. Miami - The Complete First Season Reviews:
C.S.I. Miami 
2008-10-21 - I was very pleased that I received my order so quickly and in such a good condition. Thank you.
I can not believe I existed without knowing about this!
2008-06-03 - This is absolutely one of the best T.V. series I've seen in a long time, and I just discovered it this year! This show is ADDICTIVE! With a setting in sexy, wealthy, scandolous Miami, how could it not be?! And David Caruso is SOOOO sexy, with his deep voice. His one-liners are genius! And guys will have their eye candy in the sexy, serious, but sassy Emily Procter. I love her character because she LOOKS sweet & unassuming, but she's one tough chick, with great one liners of her own. Please give this show a chance. Watch it on A&E or CBS, where it airs, and you will agree that it is one of the best T.V. shows out there, and it's the best out of all the CSI's(they're not even half as good)!
Quit Picking At It, Like It or Leave It
2007-12-13 - Living in Las Vegas, the last thing I wanted to see was a show about this city on television. Having lived here most of my life, I didn't see anything interesting about it.
So, when CSI: Crime Scene Investigation came along, I decided to give it a try and see what it had to offer. Maybe it would be interesting, after all I enjoyed Profiler until it was cancelled; and this was similiar, yet only to a point.
30 minutes into CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, I fell asleep. And, each time I would watch the episodes, I'd nod off. After a few times, I gave it up. (Nothing personal to the cast, but they were not that interesting).
But to each their own. If one likes it and another doesn't; it doesn't make it a wrong choice, just personal choices and certainly you shouldn't be comparing the way something is done in one city to what is done in another. We are all looking for something different when we watch TV, and that fuels the choices we make.
In 2002, another CSI was coming out, this time with David Caruso as the lead actor and set in Miami. I was thinking Miami Vice with David Caruso; not a pretty sight, but worth a try.
Tried it I did, and got hooked (so hooked I own season 1-4 on DVD) and watch it whenever time permits.
Here I am, now 5 years later, looking forward to getting season 5 on DVD (I have to wait until Christmas cause someone in my family decided it'd be funny to give it to me as a gift).
I find the characters compelling and more approachable, the kind of people you'd call for help.
Yes (biting my own tongue), that even includes Caruso's "Horatio Caine"; one of the best characters on the series. Tough when he has to be, compassionate where it warrants, never once forgetting about the families that are left behind. That to me is his only concern, and that is where it should be. It's that commitment I am attracted to.
Yes, he threatens dirtbags (oh my favorite parts of the episodes), but think about this, you would want Caine on your side to find your loved one's killer and would want him to do everything he could to ensure justice was done. No, you wouldn't like it if you were guilty of a crime, who would?
He's good with women and children, having perhaps too much of a protective instinct, which is lacking in today's society. Maybe that's why some people dislike his character. (Note: Caine's father killed his mother when he was younger, so there might be a reason for his attitude).
His tricks or nuances are his way of letting those around him know that he is always thinking, thinking about ways to get one step ahead of the killer and bring him/her to justice. Not to mention those little "nuances" make the suspect nervous, if you're guilty he will make you squirm.
The science is at times gruesome, then again, murder isn't pretty. We seem to forget that.
Alexx talking to the victims reminds us that these were once people too, that they had families, they were not just something that was discarded as trash.
We forget too often after people are dead that they were here and touched someone's life. We forget that they were someone's mother, father, daughter, son, brother, sister. They started out their day planning in some cases to come home to all of us, but fate intervened.
Alexx reminds us of this, and I personally like it. We need to be reminded of the consequences of greed, corruption and personal desires.
As far as Calleigh, Eric, Speed (who I miss in the series) and the rest of the CSI: Miami team, they are a diverse group that reminds us how workplace politics play a crucial role in how outcomes are determined; they have dedicated their lives to putting criminals behind bars and finding closure for the families.
Some of the stories are interesting, some make you think, and others are about par for the course when it comes to reality.
If you like it, you like it, there is no explaining it; you either have it on DVD or are planning to get it.
If you don't like it, no one is making you watch it or buy it, so leave it alone (clothing is clothing, I can dress like a model by buying certain clothes at Walmart). Don't waste your money, you're better off getting something you do like.
If you don't like the acting, don't watch it. This is after all--FICTION. The telling of a story that's purpose is to entertain.
And, I plan to keep watching as long as it's on.
Ugh. And yet, I bought season 2. I'm pathetic. 
2007-08-27 - Ok, so CSI the original is quite addictive, right? and I got desperate for something new on DVD, so I tried CSI Miami, because I sort of had to try at least one season to get through to CSI New York, which has much more promise. And yes, the first season is just as bad as I feared. It's awful. David Caruso is horrific, overacting for all he's worth; the blond southern chickie and the black doctor chickie are equally shudder-worthy in places, although they have a heck of a lot more moments of grace than "Horatio" does. I sincerely hope this gets much better as it goes on because right now I'm sort of stupefied. And yet, still better than some of the other stuff I end up watching, so I must just be a bad TV junkie... Maybe it just grows on you, like a fungus? Here's to hoping - I bought season 2 on speculation.
It has to get better, right?
*whimper*
Seasons 1-4....
2007-07-22 - I never watched CSI:Miami until a year ago. I became such a fan of the soft-spoken detectives that I ended up buying every episode available. Some scenes can be quite gruesome, but the equipment the staff of the Crime Scene Investigators have to work with is out of this world. Watch the show if for nothing else but to see the workings of these diligent police detectives.
