Although I try to limit my television to as little as I can, I have to say that I enjoy the “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” series. Not that I a big fan of detective genre or occasional lesson in human anatomy, but somehow it all comes together. It’s a slow going story with episodes being separated enough so that I can watch them each on its own, but with enough connection to build the characters. It has a little bit of everything – life, humor, action, crime, nice stories, pretty good acting; and the proportions work for me.
(image source: IMDB)
There are a few other TV series on roughly the same subject going on at roughly the same time, but nothing comes even close. They seem to either focus on supermodel cops, or deepest details of decomposed organic materials, or on vague logic connecting scenes together. None of these appeals to me after a long day at work.
Browsing through IMDB, I get the feeling that I’m not the only one enjoying the series. For better or worse, they’ve made through eight (8!) seasons and still going. Also the user rating seems rather high – 8.6 out of 10. Nice.
I don’t like it that much because 90% of the technology they show is fake.
This is probably true. I’m not that good with chemistry of physics, but the computer stuff that they show is half imaginary indeed.
I would say that absolutely *all* computer interfaces they show is fake. There is no sense to use fancy 3D graphics in a database search. :)
hazard,
but *most* movies and TV series out there use fake technologies, including GUI database searching.
Anyway, I don’t watch it for the technology or details of police work, which I’m sure are all wrong too. :)