Crime Drama TV

This was a pretty interesting episode of csi. Basically this chubby boxer makes many enemies who all wanted to kill and while they all may have tried the thing that killed him was a freaking lawn chair. The irony is resounding. He was shot with a crossbow, Injected with rattlesnake venom and fed food he was allergic to. He survived all that just to die because of a lawnchair. Im not saying he didnt deserve it but damn. I’m speechless…

Just once I would like to see a very realistic crime drama. I’m not talking about some true story fictionalized and dramatized so that there is a cliffhanger right before the commercials. I know that it makes for riveting drama but its just not realistic. Like on csi where both the murders for that week are always connected. Or how anytime the detectives on law and order regularly circumvent the fourth amendment rights against illegal search and seizure. Every time they get to the door they say something like ” do you smell a fire?” like that one sentence an obvious lie is enough to be probable cause. Or how on numerous crime shows they “rough up ” the suspects to make them talk. I guess if its not rodney king then its ok. I dont have any problems with the dramatizing so much as the bending of the laws to serve the purpose of the story. I think that it places the idea in the heads of the public that is ok to blatantly ignore the bill of rights if you are a cop. With as much authority as the police already have why give them the idea that the law doesnt apply to them. Just a thought…

The original CSI is by far the best out of the CSI’s. Although it’s not the most believable of shows, I think that with any show on television there is a required suspension of disbelief. Method man makes another guest appearance as “drops” showing off his sizable acting abilities. This week there was a man shot in a limo and a girl thrown from/dragged by a car. As usual somehow the crimes are linked together. Why can’t they just be unrelated murders. Do all csi murders have to be in pairs? But at least there were a couple of twists and turns like the fact that the brother of the guy greg ran over in “self-defense” was involved in the murders. (By the way I don’t think you have to run over a guy who is going to throw a rock at your car, sounds like excessive force to me) I do have to say though that tying these characters from other episodes gives it more of an authentic feel. The history between greg and the family kept the drama interesting. It is always interesting to me to see the imagined racism by minority victims on these shows. Basically it all boiled to the dead guy in the limo killed the girl and the friend of the guy the girl turned down at the bar killed the guy in the limo. Oh and drops killed that guy in “self defense”. Grissom finishes it off with a question of greg’s morality and we all go home happy waiting for next weeks episode. P.S. The dead guy in the limo was the haitian from heroes. Click here to see what the real csi do.

I just watched this latest episode of numbers and I have to say they come through again. Using the tit for tat theory they successfully got information out of a serial killer. The mental blocks and false memories did through an interesting loop in the mix, but I have to say that the mental thing larry was having after getting off the shuttle was kind of weird. I don’t know what is happening with him. I mean is he having a mental breakdown or is he just having postpartum depression from leaving space. It just seemed kind of out of place. There was also a guest appearance by Jeremy Sisko.
You may remember him from six feet under when he played the crazy brother. Well I’ll see you around.

And they say you will never use advanced mathematics
. I don’t know how accurate this show is, but this show makes math look interesting. Sometimes I am just blown away by how much the math on this show accomplishes. I have personally seen the math on this show catch numerous murderers, stop a kidnapper by predicting where he was going, and tell where a photo was taken by using only the shadow. I think that the character dynamics is this show are also top notch. The big brother cop that needs the little brother professors help to solve crimes using mathematical analysis keeps the storyline interesting by adding the family element to this crime show. Well keep your eyes open because im gonna be here steady. see ya soon.

Monday’s episode of the Closer was very exciting. Honestly, this season has not kept me too engaged, especially compared to last year—but this most recent episode was definitely an exception. The crime was shocking but believable, and because they were dealing with a serial murderer, the clock was ticking for Brenda and her team, and the pacing of the episode reflected that. We also saw some exciting personal developments: we still haven’t gotten totally to the bottom of Brenda’s illness, but in the process of helping her deal with it, Fritz proposed! It was wonderfully romantic, and in a way that was characteristic of her, Brenda became completely overwhelmed by the situation, but graciously accepted his hand, asking only that she keep her name.

I hope you all saw the Closer on Monday night. It probably didn’t make my top five list for that show. The crime involved the shooting of two Latino gang members in L.A. The motive for the crime ended up not being race-related. Still, it brought up some interesting issues. Black/Latin relations are in in the news all the time, and it’s interesting to see those issues brought up in fictional situations on television. The LAPD Priority Homicide Unit is an ethnically diverse team, and occasionally things will seem a little tense as a result of that. However, I think it’s great to see the reality of diversity depicted in these shows.