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CSI Miami premise

posted 8 years ago by davetruman68
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I know this show was popular for a few years, but I wonder if it was based on a false premise. These (so-called) investigators were more forensic specialists than actual investigators and they were doing the work the detectives of the Miami Dade police department were responsible for, right? Police detectives were the ones who interviewed witnesses and interrogated suspects right? The regular CSI (in Las Vegas) show seemed more realistic than CSI Miami. IMO, it seemed like this show was just one Big Ego trip for the star of the show, David Caruso.

[–] Xeliou66 8 years ago

All the CSI shows were equally unrealistic. In real life the CSI's are not allowed to interview witnesses and interrogate suspects. CSI Vegas was no more realistic as Grissom and company did the work of LVPD detectives and interrogated suspects, talked to witnesses and did stuff that IRL they wouldn't do.

You have to suspend disbelief to watch any CSI show. Do not single Miami out because you hate Caruso, Vegas and NY were just as unrealistic.

[–] davetruman68 8 years ago

I don't hate Caruso, I am just going by all that has been reported about him. He wouldn't share the spotlight with Kim Delaney, so he gave the producers an ultimatum. Look at the trouble he caused for NYPD Blue.

[–] LucusNon 8 years ago

In an interview published in 2009, Emily Procter was quoted as saying CSI: Miami was
"the fantasy comic-book version of the CSI stories, while the other two [CSI shows]
are more reality-based."
http://trendmag2.trendoffset.com/article/Interview+With+Emilt+Procter/167409/17787/article.html

She made similar statements elsewhere, e.g. in a 2007 Early Show interview:
"... Our show is ... more fantasy, it's glamorous, and in a lot of ways it is
the more comic-book-style version of [CSI]."