CSI: NY

Plot synopsis:
CSI: NY follows a group of investigators who work for the New York City crime lab. The series mixes gritty subject matter and deduction in the same manner as its predecessors, yet also places a great deal of emphasis on criminal profiling. The team is led by Detective Mac Taylor, a former Marine from Chicago. Mac is a veteran of the NYPD who lost his wife on 9/11, and as such must work to rebuild his personal life while supervising his team. He is organized, efficient, dedicated, and very proper in his management style. Mac's partner is originally Stella Bonasera. Stella is half-Greek, half-Italian, and entirely New York City. She helped Mac through the impact of his wife's death and has been by his side ever since. She is a savvy investigator, yet she often speaks before she thinks. Stella leaves New York to head a crime lab in New Orleans and is replaced by Detective Jo Danville. Jo is a former FBI criminalist and an experienced psychological profiler. Mac and she quickly form a strong friendship and an even stronger working rapport. Jo is still haunted by her ousting from the FBI after pulling the plug on improper lab procedure, so works to regain her professional reputation. Together, Mac, Stella, and Jo head an elite team of detectives including Danny Messer, Aiden Burn, and Lindsay Monroe. The team also works alongside CSI Sheldon Hawkes, Detective Don Flack, Medical Examiner Sid Hammerback, and CSI trainee Adam Ross.

Tags: murder

Review:
Add to that the loss of his wife in the tragedy of 9/11 -- which I do not think the show exploits; it is a legitimate plot point in the development of a character in NY and motivates Taylor to find justice wherever he can, something his wife was denied -- and his quiet demeanor makes sense.If Emily Proctor leaves CSI:Miami, I'll quit watching.
With CSI:NY on hand, I won't miss Miami for a moment.I just watched the season finale and am looking forward to next season.
(I'd like to add Law and Order,: Criminal Intent -- I like D'Onofrio a lot -- but I just couldn't get into the show, try as I might.)With the loss this year of both Third Watch and NYPD Blue, we are left with only a couple of good cops and robbers shows.
The acting and stories of the show are superb, Gary Sinise portrays Mac Taylor a likable character who is still dealing with the loss of his wife in 9/11, who i feel has the potential to match Grissom of the original, particularly as Petersen's contract is up in 2006.
It is also interesting to see how different characters pair up with others whilst investigating...my favourites are Aiden with Flack, and of course Mac and Stella.If you like me are slightly disappointed with the Miami spin-off and find Horatio Caine unappealing this show is just what you need.
It took the original CSI five years to say that Sara's mom killed her dad, so its logical that it will take a few seasons to totally tell these characters backgrounds.
In fact, I thought it might be the best of all three CSI shows but I'll wait on that call until a complete second season is done.I liked this debut season more than the others for two main reasons:1 - It did not have all the little soap opera side-stories involving the characters that the two other CSI shows have.
Wow, what have we done to deserve this, another fantastic series from what has shaped up to be one of the best franchise's on television, CSI:NY has everything that a good cop show needs; strong leading characters, well thought out stories and above all else, cinematic production values, like the previous two series do.
I'll admit to being balled over by the pilot/crossover episode during CSI:Miami's second season and I couldn't wait to see how it would transpire as a fully fledged series.
The show just seemed too dark and gloomy and any humour seemed to sit at odds with the show's dark milieu, but things happily changed as the first season progressed and by the end of it's freshman year I would have to say that CSI:NY was truly one of the best shows on the box, more than giving its sister series a run for their money.Like CSI's Miami and Las Vegas, the show has a terrific leading man with a penchant for feature films and character acting, in this case Gary Sinise.
While likable, she is essentially a third wheel and does nothing more than react to the other characters.Like the other two shows, hell like every thriller/crime series on American television today, the production values are incredible, the aerial shots of New York are some of the best ever done on a television series budget and the show, especially on DVD, looks fantastic.
Caine's lead seems to dead-end when he arrives at another crime scene and discovers his suspect was murdered two days prior to the Miami crime he is investigating.Enter Gary Sinise as Detective Mac Taylor.
This episode was created to establish an emotional connection between Caine and Taylor, presumably to generate interest in CSI New York's "real" pilot.
And for those like me who are contemplating whether to watch the CSI New York pilot, I say "go for it." If the pre-pilot (CSI Miami in New York episode) is any indication, CSI New York will probably build on the solid foundation of tough-but-approachable characters, clever episodic plots and fast pace that typify the first two CSI shows.
For example, in CSI:Miami, Horatio Caine is presented as an almost clairvoyant person: He walks into a crime scene, and just by looking at some blood traces, he can say: "No, I don't think our victim went over here to call the police - he was going to warn his son who he thought was asleep.
CSI NY is an action-filled series about tough cops led Head Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinese as lead role) and his team resolve crimes in New York City , facing off nasty delinquents and heinous killers by means of scientific investigations .
It stars various Police Inpectors of a special unit against crime that take down cerebral murderers , scum and low-life criminals , these are the followings : Led by hard-nosed officer Taylor (Gary Sinese , he is most known for playing Leuitenant Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump) , and supported by Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) , Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper) , Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) , Lindsay Monroe (Anna Belknap) , Sid Hammerback (Robert Joy) , Ross (A.J. Buckley) , among others .
However , in real life , the New York City Police Department (NYPD) Crime Scene Investigators (CSI's) are not detectives and are called Forensic Technicians who work in teams called Crime Scene Units (CSU's).
I'd like to see more one-case shows where the entire team is working on the same thing rather than splitting into two crimes/groups, but that's something that we see on all three CSI shows, so it's a rather minor quibble.This is definitely the main CSI I'll be watching next season.
Every Saturday I just c'ant Imagine missing an episode of CSI New York I just love watching CSI New York I think its a great show just like the other two but CSI{crime scene investigation}is the best the first time when i heard that they were doing CSI Miami I told my self that i was never gonna watched the shaw.
I think the problem with CSI new york you just have to get use to it and specially you have to give the characters a chance because i think they really are doing a great job specially you can see the way they are really working really hard to please their fans for me in the show Gary Sinise's character is really good.
I think, of all 3 shows, this one has some style: As each CSI show has, over the last 9 years, developed a kind of personality - I like the way the graphics are done in the "discovery" shots (The little "bridge" shots that show the various CSIs working and the evidence being collected) - As Danny always says, "Boom".Stylistically very contemporary, I love the way the viewer can expect to see various items from "real life" - a Treo 700, a Dell Inspiron 6400/1505e laptop, Blackberries and I-Macs and sometimes even IBM Thinkpads- All the nice goodies that you can buy at the computer store...
Aside from that, I do know that the functions that are being depicted are possible on a more powerful desktop workstation, so I always let it not bother me.I like the cast of this CSI better than the others, especially Stella, who on one hand is a pinstripe-posing woman of professional standing, and does she stand...
You think that eventually she'll end up with Mac, but then Mac would not be able to date all of the MEs with British accents.I miss Aiden, and I finally saw her final episode, and it was sad but in the end her goal was made a reality thanks to Mac. I thought her interaction with Danny was better than "Montana"/Lindsay - Who kind of bothers me cos of her cherub face-straight-from-a-Reuben-painting, but the character has a lot of good "character." I don't think it was ever blurted out in any episode, but there are indications that something happened between old Danny boy and Aiden - Who at one point indicated to Danny that she was way out of his class.Mac always makes me think of either "Apollo 13" or the film "Impostor" - And he is actually playing a character very like both of the roles he played in those films- A very tenacious, methodical, and mysterious person, whose past is revealed in small chunks when appropriate to the flow of episodes.
I like Mac.No CSI is compleat without your resident genius, in this case Hill Harper as Hawkes, who appears to be too smart, honestly, maybe there are guys that are as smart as Hawkes, that would be nice: They all ought to be hired as CSIs.Eddie Cahill is great especially when they are digging cell phone sim cards out of his chest cavity, you think he was imported straight from Law and Order, I don't know the actors Bio, maybe he did come from there.
CSI: NY is better than CSI: Miami and at least as good as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Las Vegas), I think.I like Detective Mac Taylor (not as good as Horatio, in his humorous (and unexpected by the writers, I think) dimension, but more realistic), who is a great character, like the other lead roles of CSI.
I especially like the actor, Gary Sinise ("The Stand", Of Mice And Men, ...), who is a really great actor.Flack (Eddie Cahill, seen in "Friends"), Danny (both very appreciated by the girls), Stella, Lindsay (pretty), and Dr Hawkes are very nice too.A fault however: humor is a bit missing...
it a great movie.i don't know why i like it so much,and why it has such a big success.it seems that people don't watch anymore love or comedy movies(felicity,friends etc),i mean those kind of movies has they're watchers,but people are more and more attract to thrillers,crime,drama.now to go back to the movie Cs NY...its good but sometimes its absurder the way they find clues(finger prints,dust etc)but..what a hell nothing its perfect so in the big picture its a good movie for those who like those kind.me include:)when i watch a movie for the first time ,it must be something..a person or something who must make me watch it.in Cs NY is Det. Mac Taylor,and in Cs Miami is Lt. Horatio Caine.what can i say,they make me watch the movies..and the crimes of course :)).
Gary Sinise is very fit for this serial and thanks to him it all works, the serial it's successful.He's the star and he gives a little bit of his magic to the serial...I actually love it, I love the serial and I would watch it constantly.The actors were very well chosen (except the cop, in my opinion).Gary, Anna, Carmine and Melina are acting with class, making the show realistic, and Eddie, but he is...starring too much at those bodies...I don't agree with the statement that the others are surrounding Mac all the time.
Network: CBS; Genre: Procedural Crime Drama, spin-off; Content Rating: TV-14 (for graphic gore and violence); Classification: Contemporary (Star range: 1 - 4);Season Reviewed: Season 1+For the 3rd spin-off the "CSI" franchise, they take it to where most other shows start out - tired, old, been-there-seen-that New York City.
I was hoping a talented and respectable actor like Sinise could elevate the series or bring nuance to the character (as Vincent D'Onofrio did on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent"), but he has virtually nothing to work with here other then a stock post-9/11 character trait already tackled in ABC's "Line of Fire".
The cases are interesting and they keep you guessing as to who is the killer.My one problem is that the characters feel like they belong in Boston and not New York.
I started to watch CSI NY after I found out that one of my favourite actors, Gary Sinise, plays the main character, Mac Taylor.
in my view,this entry in the CSI series is as good as CSI:Vegas.many of the episodes are pretty exciting.i also like the characters a lot.CSI:Vegas doesn't delve too much into the personal lives of its characters,whereas CSI:New York gives you some insight into them.plus,Gary Sinise is outstanding as the leader of the team,while i also like Melina Kanikaredes a lot.the show is much faster paced than either Vegas or Miami.each episode is exciting enough on its own that a cliffhanger episode isn't necessary at the end of the season.this approach is different from Vegas(Miami,i'm not to sure about,as i don't think i've watched a full season).i prefer this approach.that way,you don't have to deal with the unbearable suspense until the next season comes out.for me,CSI:NY is a 10/10.
Still the most noticeable, rather alarming, thing about it is how it is so loved to the extent of ensuing all of these seasons ?!!!!!If you're that pretty much masochist person who after all of this wants to go and watch (CSI : NY) then, one demand please, when you'll turn into a killer yourself try to aim towards however made this show !A true proof that part of the human in the 2000s has gone inhuman, and he likes it..
CSI rules.Miami is very different, but good at what it does differently.New York...
I liked the "sayonara" thing...I was little disappointed for this was too short of a sequence.I first thought it is a young Mexican actress, as dark hair and a bit slower accent could make it, then I saw who played, and surprise was a maximal because there are few good actors in the South-East Europe region (if you exclude Bella Lugosi).Yet, I think this could be very good show, as this is excellent idea, to introduce models in every episode.
Fourthly, the acting is very good, Gary Sinise is a great and I think underrated actor, and he is wonderful as Mac. Melina Kanakaredes looks stunning and acts convincingly which is a major plus in my book, and Carmine Giovinazzo is appealing as Danny.
I believe he does, but rather than using lines of cheesy dialogue,personality is portrayed through the expressions on Gary Sinise's face.Sinise ( the best actor of the three CSI series leads, even if the show is still in growing stages) uses his face to add personality and meaning to the character.
I don't know if the original writers are getting burned-out, getting senile, or what, but the programs are really starting to insult the intelligence of the viewers & I'm considering removing the show from my Tivo record list.This season's finale was part of an ongoing plot in which the sole protagonist is a psychopath in his 20s or 30s seeking revenge on one of the CSIs. The writing team has given this guy 9 lives, thanks to superhuman physical & intellectual powers & dumb NYPD cops falling for old tricks, and of course the brilliant CSI primary actors being hot on his trail.He fell off a 100+' tall lighthouse onto a rugged, rocky shoreline with waves breaking at night & his body was not recovered.
I think that CSI: New York is unique among the franchise because it is the only one of the shows that I feel that the city is a character.
I love this show and Iam, glad that was renewed for another year.This is by far one of the best,crime dramas I have ever watched.Gary Sinise is a great actor,whether it in movies or on TV.
I think people that have watched the "original" version CSI (Las Vegas) aren't giving the other shows a chance.
ITS NOT SHOT IN NEW YORK, Miami OR VEGAS!!!I definitely think that all those people out there who like the other two, should definitely tune into this one and enjoy!!!Oh, and my favourite character is Stella!!
CSI NY..For goodness sake..lets see a case involving some Italian-New York Mobsters..Crime TV shows are getting dull and if there's one thing the public are never sick of its Italian Mafia Bosses with there associates in the murky world of "The Cosa Nostra"..
The NY scene seems very gritty and Sinise seems rather cold at times, emotionally detached apart from the Pilot episode where he missed his wife and went to ground zero.CSI:NY over all seems worth a watch, and i will continue to watch it, i just won't expect too much out of it like i do from CSI or CSI:Miami.My vote = 5/10 or 6/10 = fairly average..
CSI is always an entertaining show, but the characters have become almost interchangeable.In CSI: NY there's Mac (Gil), Stella (Catherine), Danny (Nick), the young tech, the dark-haired girl that's a local, etc, etc, etc.It's basically just CSI: Vegas with new characters, plots that make less sense, and the NYC setting that's kind of NY, if you've never been there.Like CSI: Miami the dialogue is terrible, the acting is sub-par with an excellent cast, and the stories seem forced.It's a nice supplement to CSI: Vegas, but again imitation is nothing but flattery.
GARY--SHAKE IT UP!You're working with a great ensemble of actors, and you've got the long coattails of CSI Vegas and Miami to ride.
I had begun watching CSI the original and Miami a little over a year ago and was happy to hear that a third addition to the great television series was coming to CBS.
Anyhow, he looked like Gary Sinise so much at times that in the long shots I thought it was him.
Again, as with the Miami series, I wasn't so sure that it would be any good but when I watched it, I thought it was definitely worthy like the other two series.I love the characters.
They are completely different and unique to the city and none of the characters feel like they had been copied from the other series which is good.
I think a lot more can be shown of characters such of Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise), Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes), Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo), Dr. Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper), Lindsay Monroe (Anna Belknap) and Det. Don Flack (Eddie Cahill)..