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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Salesrank: 1033
Released: March 25, 2003 |
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Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Based on real life Las Vegas crime scene investigators, CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION follows the team as they solve chilling cases with innovative thinking and methodical scientific inquiry. Tackling cases peppered with grisly details, the Las Vegas PD Criminalistics Division is the #2 crime lab in the U.S., solving crimes that practically every other crime lab has given up on. Set in a town whose reputation for providing instant success for those willing to try their luck, CSI finds that the constant influx of visitors to the city that never sleeps also provides ripe targets for criminals of all varieties. The show also stars Paul Guilfoyle as Capt. Jim Brass, Robert David Hall as Dr. David Robbins and Eric Szmanda as Greg Sanders.
DVD Contents:
Disc 1: Pilot, Cool Change; Crate and Burial; Pledging Mr. Johnson
Disc 2: Friends and Lovers; Who Are You?; Blood Drops; Anonymous
Disc 3: Unfriendly Skies; Sex, Lies and Larvae; I-15 Murders; Fahrenheit 932
Disc 4: Boom; To Halve and to Hold; Table Stakes; Too Tough to Die
Disc 5: Face Lift; $35K O.B.O; Gentle, Gentle; Sounds of Silence
Disc 6: Justice is Served; Evaluation Day; Strip Strangler
Disk 6 of the DVD also includes the following special features:
* Featurette: "CSI: People Lie...But The Evidence Never Does"
* The Who's "Who Are You" Music Video
* Character Profiles
Description of C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation - The Complete First Season:
Murder, and its tale-telling aftermath, is the compelling subject of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Since it premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000, CSI was a ratings triumph, spawning a spinoff (CSI: Miami) and positioning itself for long-term success. As the first season demonstrates, creator Anthony Zuiker's foolproof formula was established early on, bolstered by a fine ensemble cast and requiring minimal tweaking as the season progressed; its Las Vegas-based "criminalists" eventually became "CSI" steeped in the scientific minutiae of forensic investigation, but the series arrived essentially intact, with an irresistible (and seemingly inexhaustible) supply of corpses and the mysteries that surround them. Influenced by the graphic precedent of movies like Seven and Kiss the Girls, CSI matches morbidity with dispassionate methodology; viewers are so fascinated by the investigative process that they're unfazed by intimate autopsies and internal (i.e., digitally animated) views of traumatized flesh, bone, and sinew.
While keeping abreast of cutting-edge technologies, CSI combines the ingenuity (and fallibility) of villains with the appealing humanity of its heroes. CSI director and entomologist Gil Grissom (played by series coproducer William Petersen) is introverted but ethically intense; he's both mentor and moral compass for his night-shift team, including a former stripper-turned-CSI (Marg Helgenberger); a recovering gambler (Gary Dourdan); an eager ace (George Eads) with room for improvement; a workaholic (Jorja Fox) who can't always remain emotionally detached from her cases; and a chief detective (Paul Guilfoyle) who's a necessary link to police procedure. Like The X-Files, CSI supports its characters with feature-film production values, employing a Rashomon structure that turns murder into a progressively accurate study of cause and effect. Script quality is consistently high ("Blood Drops" and "Unfriendly Skies" are exceptional), direction is slick and sophisticated, and the mysteries are complex enough to invite multiple viewings. Despite a regrettable shortage of DVD features, CSI's inaugural season remains addictively worthy of its lofty reputation. --Jeff Shannon
C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation - The Complete First Season Reviews:
Great show, but... 
2009-12-04 - CSI is my favorite show and I realize that it's really gruesome, as the seasons progress, but there's just something about it that keeps drawing me back week after week. I just recently bought seasons 1-3 on DVD and I was really excited to start from the first epsiode and slowly work my way through each of the seasons(seeing as how I have to watch the old episodes on Spike and I don't know if I have caught every episode or not).
When I watched the first episode of season 1, however, I was surprised at how grainy the picture was. It looked like they hadn't even bothered to clean up the picture before putting it on the DVD.
It's an amazing show, has some cheesy lines that you just have to laugh and shake your head at, but I think they could've spent a little extra time fixing up the presentation of the DVD episodes. This grainy aspect, however, shouldn't stop you from watching it...it's still a show to check out. In later seasons, the show gets even better.
Very good buy! 
2009-11-09 - This was a very good buy! Item came in good condition and was delivered when promised!
CSI Second season
2009-06-07 - Received the item quickly and efficiently and they seem to be in great working order.
One of the best tv shows ever.
2009-06-06 - There isn't much to say that problably hasn't been said before. This is one of the best tv shows to date. Gil Grissom(William Petersen) leads a group of top crimialists to solve crimes. All of the characters, including minor characters are fleshed out well and each have their own quirks.
My favorite character is Grissom, because of the devosion he has to his work and his awkwardness in public. He is someone I can relate to.
I definitely recommend this show.
excellent!
2009-05-30 - the product was in excellent condition when i received it and the whole discs were perfect. no scratch no anything. i didn't regret buying it. thanks so much!
