As a writer myself, I’m constantly impressed by CSI: Miami’s writers’ ability to come up with interesting crimes perpetrated in interesting ways. What makes the three CSI programs so fun to watch is the regional variation offered...

In just about every opening of your standard CSI: Miami episode, we viewers get to see the crime. By the end of your regular episode, the murderer is taken away in handcuffs. Last night’s episode, “In the...

It has to be an interesting and, at times, frustrating job to be a writer for a crime show like CSI: Miami. The template is pretty structured, and we viewers know what we’re going to get week...

For the first new episode of the year, CSI: Miami asks the question: What if Hannah Montana pulled a Michael Jackson? Let’s be honest–Jackson’s notorious hair fire of 1984 is now pop culture legend. Montana is a...

Like last week’s episode, this one began with running. Calleigh and Ryan were in hot pursuit of a suspect, as was Horatio. Apparently, the cameraman also got in on the action, since the images were quite jumpy...

With few exceptions, American police procedurals are straight-forward television drama with little changes here and there, never enough to upset the balance. Week in and week out, you pretty much know what you are going to get:...

One of the best things the Vegas CSI did last season was have a smaller subplot that played out over multiple episodes. They showed a little here and a little there, and it all added up to...

Serendipity is that strange thing where two seemingly unrelated things actually share something in common. The timing and subject matter of last night’s CSI: Miami episode was, for me, like deja vu. You see, on Sunday, I...

Here’s what I don’t get: CSI was TV’s #1 show for a few years this decade. William Peterson’s Grissom was The Man on CSI. Yet, he never traveled to Miami or New York for a crossover event....

As a guy, and a married one at that, I always have the same idea when it comes to bachelor parties: you ought to have one the night before a first date with any lady. If she’s...