CSI: New York and beyond?
Watched the CSI: New York-introducing episode of the first spinoff (Miami).
Not a bad episode, and the third CSI-franchise has a good leading man in Gary Sinise. The other cast seems to be a by-the-numbers exercise: eager-beaver number-two, greek/italian chick, african-american coroner and a hispanic girl to round out the posse.
I just hope the post-process coloring is toned down when the shooting starts in earnest. Pretty much every New York shot was done in very blatant blue tint. Far more conspicuous than the Neon->Pastel-handover inbetween the original show and the Miami-spinoff was. And more distracting than the plot-based tinting done in Soderbergh’s Traffic.
Would actually be pleasant to catch a couple of episodes, if only to see which song by The Who is used as the title tune. I guess the mtv3/subutex-tv conglomerate has optioned this already.
What’s next? CSI: Pyongyang? Where Lt. Kim solves why comrade Kim killed comrade Kim… In the absence of capitalism and worldly goods plots are harder to concoct. But when has Jerry Bruckheimer last shown restraint when there’s a buck to be made.
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