TV To Watch: ‘C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigations’

Oct.02, 2007 by Reid in Television

Plot: A Las Vegas Police Department forensics lab works to solve cases by “following the evidence”. The team is lead by Gil Grissom (Petersen), a former coroner, and Catherine Willows (Helgenberger), a former exotic dancer. Assisting them in the field are Agents Warrick Brown (Dourdan), Sara Sidle (Fox), Nick Stokes (Eads) and Greg Sanders (Szmanda). Dr. Albert Robbins (Hall), the head coroner, and Capt. Jim Brass (Guilfoyle) also help the team find out whodunit each and every week.

We started watching C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigations on a whim a few years back - and immediately became hooked. We immediately set up our DVR to start recording every episode we’d missed - and discovered that SpikeTV broadcasted a minimum of 2 episodes a day.

Produced by hot-shot movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer, C.S.I. has become enormously popular, rating #1 in the rankings almost every week, prompting a sudden rush at forensic science majors in colleges across the US, and even spawning 2 spin-offs: C.S.I.: Miami and C.S.I.: NY (Heck, C.S.I. even got Quentin Tarantino to direct the season finale - “Grave Matters” - in 2005!)

While most everyone has seen at least one episode of this series by now, if you haven’t been keeping up, don’t worry about it. While some things do continue over several episodes (such as Sara and Grissom’s relationship), the main focus of each episode is still finding out whodunit, and the excitement of watching the evidence come together is still interesting.

With Episode 1 of this season finally supposedly bringing an end to the long drawn-out Miniature Killer saga, it’s time for the team to move on to bigger and better things - although it looks like they are facing a bit of a dilemma internally first, as Sara and Grissom’s secret relationship finally makes it’s way into the limelight.

While this show is into it’s 8th season, it doesn’t show any signs of slowing down yet, and looks like it’s got many more episodes waiting to burst free.

Check it out (or DVR it like we do) Thursdays at 9pm on CBS.