They are back
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, they are back!! You wonder who ‘they’ are? Well, can’t blame you since I guess that in my outmost excitement not only have I forgot to write this article on time but also forgot to mention this particular detail.
Well, I’m talking about a couple of my current favorite TV series: CSI and Supernatural.
For those of you who don’t know, Supernatural is a rather interesting TV series about two brothers who dedicate their lives to fighting the unseen forces of supernatural beings and powers. They travel all across the USA (*sigh* who’s gonna protect us, europeans?) and discover unnatural evils and dispose of them. The nice part of the series is that the viewer gets acquainted with a rather extensive range of mythological creatures from all over the world and demons, vampires and evil woodland spirits are just the tip of the iceberg. The downside is that it lacks any personality and introduction. Unlike series such as the X-Files or Relic Hunter, Supernatural skips ahead to the action with very little description of the mythos behind the current event. Still, the chemistry of the two main actors is great (on the par with the more famous Mulder and Scully). Also, just as the aforementioned paranormal-related series, Supernatural too begins with ‘cases’ related to actual documented incidents.
The fourth season has returned with a whole new dimension of demons, witches and … now … even angels.
The other name, CSI, has long become a cult series among those with a passion for misteries, becoming the best thing since Sherlock Holmes and Nacy Drew. Criticized for offering viewers a distorted image of what crime scene investigations mean, CSI still retains a large deal of realism and point-by-point investigation.
The first of the CSI franchise, the one that started it all, is CSI: Las Vegas and the month of november has brought us the 9th season of the amazing Gil Grissom and his night-shift team. Of the three CSI series, Las Vegas is definitely the most charming and the most real of them all. The CSI’s in Grissom’s team are soft-hearted geeks, who do detective work every now and then, but mostly they stick to Grissom’s motto about analizing the evidence without passion or prejudice. Grissom is quiet, sometimes even shy, but definitely smart and has the annoying habit of playing the ‘guru’ all-around. He values wit over anything else and sometimes even enjoys playing his investigations against worthy opponents.
The second in line is CSI: Miami, which deals with the works of the Miami-Dade crimelab, where dayshift supervisor is detective Horatio Caine. Unlike the geeks in Las Vegas, Caine’s team suffers from an exaggerated ‘cool factor’ which makes the series look unreal. In fact, the only team member that resembles a real human being is the team’s doctor, while Caine looks more of a cowboy who doesn’t hesitate to jump around the edge of the law to bring down criminals - due to the fact that he’s also a detective aside form being a CSI. Apparently, the producer Anthony Zuicker realized that having CSI’s running around with guns isn’t very plausible so he threw in some detectives. The series doesn’t pose much of a challenge and the viewer is reduced to a spectator, but I can say it’s damn entertaining.
The last one is called CSI: New York and one might wonder why the great metro zone of New York was the last one to come. Well, statistics say that Las Vegas and Miami have the busiest crimelabs and they may have a point. However, in the movie business, CSI: New York is almost dead. Unlike the first two, this one has little if any charm. The character are not as witty as those in Las Vegas and are not as charismatic as those in Miami. In fact, of the entire team, the only one who has anything going on is the detective Flak who usually sticks around the crimelab. Unfortunately that’s not enough … b ut of course, there’s always the very creative ways to kill someone that the series presents.