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Summary: Great Show With A Wonderful First Season
Review: A friend got me hooked on this show earlier this year, in the third season, so I hadnt seen many of the older episodes. This set is great- it includes the best season of C.S.I. This show has great, quirky characters, dark humor, interesting forensic information, and intriguing whodunit plotlines.
The best episodes are definitely:The Strip Strangler
Anonymous
Sex, Lies, and Larvae
I-15 Murders
Pledging Mr. Johnson
Fahrenheit 932
Blood Drops
Evaluation Day
Cool Change
Who Are You?
To Halve and To Hold
Sounds of Silence
Face Lift
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Summary: FUll Screen?
Review: Why on earth would CBS release only a full screen version? this show is the best thing on TV and has been broadcast in Widescreen High Definition! Bring out the 16x9 version and I'll be first in line. Until then it has to stay on the shelf.
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Summary: Loved this series
Review: Quincy lives. Those people who watched Quincy will love this series. Can't wait for season two.
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Summary: Best Show on TV and DVD
Review: I didn't start watching CSI until the second season and was thrilled when I got this DVD for my birthday. I hated science as a kid but watching this show has given me a whole new way to look at it. You not only get to see how each case is solved, but you get to see how each character deals with each case. You become involved in each episode.
The best part about CSI is that it brings so much reality into each show. Although most cases are solved within the hour, some of them aren't. And during some of them, assumptions are made that cause more harm than good.
There is some gore but it is in the context of forensics and to show the science, you have to see the gore. So sit back and watch how it all works. You'll be fascinated as well as entertained!!
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Summary: Humdrum television quality fare
Review: I was expecting more when I purchased this set based upon the scintillating recommendations on this page. I had in mind the quality of "The Shield" or "Buffy..." or even "NYPD Blue". Well, you won't get this type of entertainment in this series. I was very disappointed. While there are plenty of gruesome and bloody scenes for the rubberneckers, the storyline is thin, very thin. The plots are bland and predictable: don't expect any clever dramatic contrivances or real surprises. Wisecracking cop sees crime, villain lies about crime, wise-cracking cop solves crime. End of story. Yawn. And, yes, these cops call themselves "scientists". The characters are bland and predictable, full of teenage cliches, language which passes for clever in the television world, but leaves me bored. The characters are all good-looking, belonging more to the style section of a magazine than to a police unit. This is television, but it is very average television. And, of course, everything is mind-numbingly PC. If you want some intellectual stimulation, beyond the 13-year old mind-set that television usually aims for, this series is not for you. It certainly was not for me.
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Summary: Great DVD that DOES NOT have a mistake.
Review: First of all, this is a great show and a great DVD. Second of all, this DVD does not have a mistake in episode order as some have reported on this site. I have seen many people complain about this "mistake" that episode 102 comes after episode 110 in the DVD set and is out of order. It is not out of order. It has to do with the way the episodes were shot. The episode numbers merely indicate the order in which the episodes were filmed. So when you open your DVD set and notice on the first disc the episodes go from 100, 101, THEN 103, that does not mean 102 is skipped and put on another disc for your discomfort. All the episodes are on the disc in order by the original air date. Just follow the disc and you'll be fine. Episode 103 was aired October 20, 2000, while episode 102 aired January 12, 2001. Not BEFORE episode 103. They were just shot out of order. I admit it is confusing, but the set has all the episodes in the right order. Anyways, I highly recommend this set. The episodes are wonderful and this is top-notch TV.
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Summary: WONDERFUL SHOW, DVD NEEDS HELP
Review: I LOVE A GOOD CRIMINAL SHOW, AND CSI DEFINITELY DELIVERS. THE DVD ITSELF NEEDS SOME WORK. I AGREE WITH SOME OTHERS THAT I MISS THE HD FORMAT. ALSO, I STILL CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THE EPISODES TO PLAY SERIALLY. MY DVD PLAYER AND COMPUTER KEEP GOING TO THE MAIN MENU AFTER EACH EPISODE. A BASIC HASSLE WHEN I'M IN THE MOOD FOR MAJOR TELEVISION. OTHERWISE, I LOVE THE SHOW. IT'S INTELLIGENT, WELL-PACED, AND SUSPENSFUL. I RECOMMEND BUYING THIS COMPILATION!! NOW WHEN DOES THE NEXT SEASON OF CSI GET RELEASED? FOR THAT MATTER, WHEN IS SEASON 2 OF LAW & ORDER GETTING HERE?
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Summary: Great show, but bare-bones package
Review: CSI is a great show--don't get me wrong. If you want the first season, it's all here. However, that's all your going to get. There's all of the shows (but, for some reason, the third episode is out of order). The audio mixing is a bit questionable as the music can be much louder than the voices. If you're deaf, well, CBS obviously hates you, as there are NO captions. (This is particularly ironic as Grissom is gradually becoming deaf in current episodes and there's a deaf contestant in another CBS hit...There's a music video (just in case you really, really want to hear "who, who are you" even more), "character profiles" (extremely brief text--one wonders why they even bothered), a "behind the scenes" documentary (and much of that is just the people behind the show saying how great the show is--boring!). And, as I said before, the show is great. If you missed the first season, here's your chance to see the beginning. CBS, however, could have done a bit more than just shovel all the great shows onto six DVDs.
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Summary: A bare bones set for one of TV's hottest shows.
Review: CSI has finally hit DVD, and it's great. Arguably one of the most interesting shows on TV, you can now see it from the very beginning. All 23 shows season are here, including BLOOD DROPS, which was one of the best episodes that season. Packed in a plastic case, all 6 discs are surprisingly bare. While there is a featurette and a a Music video, there are also a lack of scene selection in every episode, as well as a menu that seems very simple for such an expensive set. Even the packaging is rather bland, with the only cool thing about it is the yellow "crime scene" tape across the box. Perhaps I'm just spoiled by Fox's Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Simpsons, and Angel DVD sets where you at least get fold out sets and liner booklets. This set has the discs piled on top of each other in a fold out plastic cover and that's it. Other than the bare bones look of the set, the show itself more than makes up for it and the set is worth getting. Another quality show on TV comes home to DVD.
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Summary: Watch CSI and become more intelligent and mature in knowing.
Review: Did you know Wiiliam Petersen may have been the first actor ever to utter the curse word "A@@h@le" on Network television? It's in the pilot episode and he said it to a room full of "dead people". Every episode of the first season is here. No commercials, no pre-emptions by news reports, no annoying network logo in the lower right corner of your screen. Since there are no interuptions, an episode is not one-hour long, but shortened down to 43 minutes (no commercials remember), so you can find out who or what the killer is in 30 to 35 minutes. The special features on his DVD include a 19-minute featurette, "CSI--People Lie...But The Evidence Never Does". Interviews with the cast. Did you know every equipment, every test, every thing you see on CSI is real? (except for the "dead people" which are live models or a foam casting thereof) The cases on CSI come from real cases and how they are solved is the real thing. Yes, semen on a bedspread, a pillow, a door knob, can be evidence and help find out who did the crime. A hair, a fingernail, a little piece of toenail in the shoe...these episodes are the best and you and you will learn so much. You can be smarter than your other friends. Have you noticed how people have changed since watching CSI? We are getting more intelligent with knowledge and are more mature for that. Watch EVERY episode of CSI!
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