Thanks to the writers' ...
Question: Thanks to the writers' strike, I caught an episode of
CSI: Miami for the first time Monday night. Can I just say how god-awful this show is? There were moments when I felt like I was watching Skin-a-Max.
Elizabeth Berkley always looked on the verge of stripping and getting it on with David Caruso, while long, sheer curtains billowed in the background. Plus, all that crazy cinematography! Was the whole thing shot through an amber fractal lens? I guess it was there to distract us from the cheesy dialogue and wooden acting. How has that show lasted this long? I guess it's a matter of taste, and this surely isn't mine. Thanks for letting me vent — I really needed to purge myself!
Answer: Can't say I blame you. I wanted to wash my eyeballs out after being assaulted for an entire high-def hour with all of that busy, annoying camerawork. It felt like I was trapped in a kaleidoscope. Unfortunately, you could still mostly see and hear the actors, who just get more mannered by the season. It was a dreadful episode, compounded by how annoying it was for the camera to keep gliding behind refracted glass surfaces. And as our astute Cheers & Jeers columnist Bruce Fretts
pointed out earlier this week, Elizabeth Berkley was almost comically miscast. This is one show that could use the rest the strike is imposing on it, because that was the last new episode we'll be seeing for quite a while.
