This has become must-see TV on Monday nights in my house.
Take David Caruso at his most pretentious. Add some of the worst dialogue ever written. Then have the former mouth the latter with grave portent and Shatneresque pauses, and you've got yourself a good time.
The stories are ofen gripping, and that saves the show from complete self-parody, but who writes the dialogue? (Unless Caruso the auteur is writing his own.)
Take David Caruso at his most pretentious. Add some of the worst dialogue ever written. Then have the former mouth the latter with grave portent and Shatneresque pauses, and you've got yourself a good time.
The stories are ofen gripping, and that saves the show from complete self-parody, but who writes the dialogue? (Unless Caruso the auteur is writing his own.)
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fpw Wrote:This has become must-see TV on Monday nights in my house.Whew! I thought you were going to tell me this show was good. :eek: I tried watching it once and every time David Caruso spoke my ears started bleeding and I had what the doctor called "mini-seizures." Man! That guy is HORRIBLE in that show. I missed the first season of NYPD Blue which he was on. I heard he was actually a good actor then. What happened? Did his EGO swell up to gigantic size and crush the part of his brain which has the "acting ability"?
Take David Caruso at his most pretentious. Add some of the worst dialogue ever written. Then have the former mouth the latter with grave portent and Shatneresque pauses, and you've got yourself a good time.
The stories are ofen gripping, and that saves the show from complete self-parody, but who writes the dialogue? (Unless Caruso the auteur is writing his own.)
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Lisa Wrote:Ha. If it's that bad I may have to give it a try. I enjoy Andromeda and Beastmaster for much the same reasons. David Caruso is so hideous, though. Hopefully he won't show his butt again!I liked most of those Hecules-Xena-type shows. I never saw Andromeda, though. Did you ever watch the Sinbad one or the Robin Hood one, Lisa? OMG, those were hideous! The Lost World I can actually stomach.
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
fpw Wrote:This has become must-see TV on Monday nights in my house.
Take David Caruso at his most pretentious. Add some of the worst dialogue ever written. Then have the former mouth the latter with grave portent and Shatneresque pauses, and you've got yourself a good time.
The stories are ofen gripping, and that saves the show from complete self-parody, but who writes the dialogue? (Unless Caruso the auteur is writing his own.)
Hmmm. I hope my final arguments don't come off to juries like that! I've always pictured myself as a cross between Perry Mason and Socrates, but then I may be biased (or delusional). :confused:
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Lisa Wrote:Ha. If it's that bad I may have to give it a try. I enjoy Andromeda and Beastmaster for much the same reasons. David Caruso is so hideous, though. Hopefully he won't show his butt again!
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Andromeda is my favorite series. I bought DVD Box-set. But I never saw Beastmaster.
Anyway, CSI:Miami is ......actually, I've never seen Miami version. I saw CSI:Lasvegas. Did you see it?
Biggles Wrote:Hmmm. I hope my final arguments don't come off to juries like that! I've always pictured myself as a cross between Perry Mason and Socrates, but then I may be biased (or delusional). :confused:
Well, dadburnit, Biggles. I picture you as Henry Drummond in INHERIT THE WIND. With better galluses, of course.
fpw Wrote:This has become must-see TV on Monday nights in my house.
Take David Caruso at his most pretentious. Add some of the worst dialogue ever written. Then have the former mouth the latter with grave portent and Shatneresque pauses, and you've got yourself a good time.
The stories are ofen gripping, and that saves the show from complete self-parody, but who writes the dialogue? (Unless Caruso the auteur is writing his own.)
After I saw the YouTube clips of Caruso's delivery, I've been catching up on CSI: Miami on A&E. He's hilarious. He adds a bizarre zen-wannabe quality to the show that somehow works, at least for me. Of course, the real star of the show is his sunglasses. :p
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Maggers Wrote:After I saw the YouTube clips of Caruso's delivery, I've been catching up on CSI: Miami on A&E. He's hilarious. He adds a bizarre zen-wannabe quality to the show that somehow works, at least for me. Of course, the real star of the show is his sunglasses. :pI so loved him on NYPD Blue. Now he just makes my medula oblongata twitch.
Now I'm watching "CSI:Miami" season 2 every week. Some episodes are pretty good. But as for characters, I prefer Grissom & Catherine in "CSI:Las Vegas".