![]() ![]() ![]() The uncanny effectiveness of the show's Applied Phlebotinum has caused some to suspect that it's not actually set in the present day, but, rather, 20 Minutes into the Future (on-screen dates, though, put it in the Present Day). Pretty much established the Necro Cam, which it uses as a device to re-enact for the viewers every single gruesome detail that can be extracted from a crime scene, and every theory it spawns. Gil Grissom's frequent one-liners right before the opening credits or an ad break are a well known example of a Quip to Black, although Horatio Caine's versions are perhaps the best known - mostly due to the heaping layer of cheese added to them. Please note, however, that it is not the oldest of the current crop of forensic shows, a title held by British show Silent Witness. There are 797 total episodes of CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, and CSI: Cyber, not including books, comic books, and video games related to the franchise. It also followed in Law & Order's "franchise" footsteps, with CSI: Miami ( Yeeeeeeeaaaahh!), CSI: NY and CSI: Cyber. Most directly, it inspired its producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, to try and replicate this success with Without a Trace and Cold Case (both in the same verse). The series influenced a great many subsequent programs, particularly from the early 2000s to the early 2010s, where police procedurals involving large casts of characters often focused around a specific type of crime/evidence/investigation method were, for a while, a large mainstay of TV programming. CSI as a forensic/mystery show continued for many years, holding on very strongly and getting more interesting with time. CSI runs into the Road of Trials (Part of Hero's Journey) many times throughout the series. It also moved on from a fairly straightforward forensics approach to more high-tech approaches that aren't necessarily possible in real life, requiring some degree of suspension of disbelief from the viewer. Initially touted as a show where the evidence was the main character and the actual characters were little more than flat stereotypes with "quirks" added almost as an afterthought, the series progressed over its thirteen seasons to make the characters a little more rounded and include more of their personal lives and histories in the story lines. Albert Robbins, the ever-professional medical examiner and his assistant, David Phillips and David Hodges and Wendy Simms, lab technicians with specialties in trace and foreign-substance analysis.CSI (full title CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and upon revival, CSI: Vegas) note was unofficially referred to as CSI: Las Vegas when differentiating the shows in the franchise, mostly abroad where CSI: Miami made the franchise popular, before officially adopting CSI: Vegas upon its 2021 revival is a highly successful TV show (2000-2015) about a group of graveyard-shift crime scene investigators in Las Vegas led originally by enigmatic scientist Gil Grissom, then, following his departure, by ex-stripper and single mother Catherine Willows, and finally, by quirky scientist DB Russell. Jim Brass, the former chief, now assigned to Homicide Dr. The CSI team members also work closely with Capt. Raymond Langston, a former pathologist who joins the Las Vegas Crime Lab after consulting on a serial killer case Nick Stokes, a true-blue stand-up guy who empathizes with victims via his own experiences and Greg Sanders, the offbeat tech analyst turned field investigator. ![]() Catherine Willows, a hard-working single parent with a checkered past and a teenage daughter she's raising on her own, heads the team of investigators at the Crime Lab in Las Vegas following previous leader Gil Grissom's departure. They are on the case 24/7, scouring the scene, collecting the irrefutable evidence, and finding the missing pieces that will solve the mystery. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a fast-paced drama about a team of forensic investigators trained to solve crimes by examining the evidence. ![]()
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