:CSI: Miami:
Date: 11/25/2002
Day: Sunday
Time: 10:00 PM
Channel: CBS
Rating: Too Hollywood to Reach Potential
It is a shame that this show does not live up to its potential. Every episode I am able to find things that are very unrealistic. I am obviously not trained in forensics, but it does not take a degree to figure out why certain aspects of the show are not feasible or accurate.
Has anyone else noticed that the investigators on this show are vampires? When they are working in their lab, where attention to detail is everything, it is almost pitch black not to mention they are rarely seen out in public without dark sunglasses. Have these well educated scientists ever heard of light bulbs? I know it is suppose to add to the mysteriousness of the show, but I almost thought there was something wrong with my television because I could barely see what was happening.
I am going to have to argue that the scene in which the investigator takes pictures of an ear and an earplug and generates a three dimensional model reliable enough to determine that the ear piece was custom made for that exact ear is far fetched. Had they used the earplug to put into the victim’s ear I would have no complaints, but it was way too Hollywood the way it was done.
There was also a subplot in which a student tortured her abusive professor and hung him from a tree. Maybe the student was an aerobics instructor, but I doubt that her petite body would have been able to lift the body with the ease that was shown.
This brings me to my biggest complaint with this whole genre of television show. Why does every episode have to end in a confession? Law & Order is another popular show in the same genre that cannot resist ending with a tearful confession. I realize that shows are created to be a certain length and they need to wrap up all of the plots before the ending, but this is a lame way to end almost every show. If you are shooting for a believable show, these confessions have to stop!
Why? Just Because!