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Reader's Jeer of the Week: CSI: Miami Vices
David Caruso by Cliff Lipson/CBS
Posted by tvFANtastic...
Jeers to CSI: Miami for being increasingly ridiculous every episode. It's like some test to see how many outlandish storylines and how much terrible acting (I'm looking at you, David Caruso) the viewers will take. The thing with Calleigh? Puh-lease. And extraditing Horatio to Brazil, just to release him like wild game? Maybe he can strap on some skis and jump the shark all the way back to Miami. Respect your viewers!
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Apr 4, 2008 3:14 PM
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You are so right. I had to laugh about the shooting scene. 9 people fire at him and Horatio is NOT HIT by one single bullet?
Gone to Brazil in the morning, back in Miami by lunch. ABSURD
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Apr 4, 2008 9:04 PM
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What is endlessly absurd is that viewers who profess to be at least of average intelligence fail to understand the difference between reality and fiction.
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Apr 5, 2008 1:00 AM
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I agree. This show gotten much worse than usual? I stopped watching years ago because of the overacting of Caruso, the ridiculous knowledge Caine has about everything ("That plant only grows on the North side of the bay, 3.6 miles outside of town"), the fact that their Miami is populated 100% by young, beautiful people without a retiree or older person to be found, etc. I tuned in for this week's episodes and found Caine going to Brazil to face "justice," then shooting dead half a dozen people (at least one a clear murder) in 2 minutes in order to catch his flight back to the main episode. We're supposed to believe that there's no police force in Brazil? This show not only jumped the shark long ago; it should swim with the fishes.
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Apr 5, 2008 6:58 PM
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I am a huge fan of this show but even I must admit that there are some moments that are a stretch in realism. For instance, when Calleigh scooted over to manually unlock the driver's side door of a $60,000+ vehicle. Are auto locks an option on a Hummer?
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Apr 5, 2008 9:07 PM
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This show not only jumped the shark long ago; it should swim with the fishes.
YUP...since the show is nothing but a vehicle for hammy actor David Caruso.
His ridiculous acting ruined the show.
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Apr 6, 2008 12:25 AM
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A show can succeed at being implausible if it's sci-fi or has a huge sense of fun. Miami Vice is just hammy, awful, unbelievable, loud, incredibly repetitive, and, as one poster mentioned, only populated by young, suspiciously wealthy people (mostly white with some black people and Latins thrown in). Ugh.
I lost interest when the dessicated Caine began his love affair with the 20-something sister of his employee. Yuck! My doctor won't give me enough Compazine to get me through that.
I did occasionally check in after that and did make a point of catching his initial trip to Brazil in which he engaged in a knife fight on a mountain top with a gang member half his age and, of course, ended up killing the guy. (Yeah, HE'D win the fight. Right.) Then he hops a plane home. If he HAD hopped on his Harry Potter broom and headed home to Miami at that point, it would have made for the only believable moments of the show.
Add to that the show's nauseating habit of having these lab rats also arrest suspects, chase suspects, issue tickets, diffuse bombs, serve warrants, interrogate suspects, etc. I guess this means that the Miami PD would only really need about 6 people to run the place.
But the show's greatest sin is its determination to be serious, meaningful, and dramatic. When something is that absurd and poorly acted, the only way to salvage it is to wink at the audience and assure us that it's not taking itself seriously. Yuck, this show is awful.
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Apr 7, 2008 1:47 AM
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What a horrible show Miami has become. David Caruso should thank Zeus and all the other gods that he has a steady job. My 12 year-old nephew shows more acting finesse in every school play.
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Apr 7, 2008 11:09 AM
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I am a big fan of Miami CSI. In fact, I used to prefer it (almost) to CSI. BUT, lately it has gotten too outlandish. I agree that this episode was unbelievable in so many ways. Caine being extradited, set free, and killing a dozen people, then being back in Miami in a flash...sounds more like a Bewitched episode where he can twitch his nose and appear or a superhero show. I, too, thought Calleigh's abduction and everything with that was too fake as well. I love the character of Calleigh, but it was too much! Please, producers, make the show more realistic!
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Apr 7, 2008 4:44 PM
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how about they just cancel this crap and force David Caruso to retire? He is beyond intolerable!!!
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Apr 10, 2008 12:08 PM
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I agree. Caruso is beyond horrible to watch!
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Apr 10, 2008 1:11 PM
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At long last they showed Horatio doing some serious lab work! And he wasn't standing sideways with his head turned funny while doing it. I guess he had to get some lab work done with all the 47 plotlines going on at once. Folks, I think we saw all the shows we missed during the writers strike crammed into one episode.
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Apr 10, 2008 1:14 PM
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Folks, I think we saw all the shows we missed during the writers strike crammed into one episode.
YUP. All in all it was a mediocre episode. Episodes CBS makes a lot of PR are for are mostly weak episodes and disappointing.
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Apr 11, 2008 1:26 AM
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