ma-cortes
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 . This show follows the activities of the detectives working at the Scientific Department , a section assigned to Crime Scene Investigations bureau . CSI officers use the best scientist and technical methods to solve puzzles and catch criminals . 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 . With almost obsessive dedication towards their quest for the facts , Taylor and his elite team of investigators work various perplexing cases using scientific skills and equipment that are capable of finding valuable clues from the most seemingly unlikely sources . Taylor leads the quest for the one thing that can cut through the lies to the truth and justice , the evidence . As they take on several dangers and risked assignments , confronting unsettling junkies , violent muggers , avaricious robbers , malevolent panderers , bank attackers , extremely villain mobsters , women traffickers , heinous druggies , kidnappers , ominous murderers and several others . They are very skilled technicians , and are a component of the police response to crime . In the numerous episodes there are different and twisted cases dealing with kidnappings , grisly murders for robbing , racism , envy , ambition or vengeance . Together, these investigators collect and analyze the evidence to solve the crimes and to vindicate those who often cannot speak for themselves , the victims .CSI has the best scientific criminalistic division in N.Y.C. with the best crime lab , solving crimes that practically every other crime lab has given up on . Formed by an expert team , they track down perpetrators using scientific analysis and the occasional leap in logic . This exciting series packs a moving atmosphere by means of shaky camera , videotape and killings reconstructions in a really dynamic style . And even food items are frequently used to simulate injuries to corpses , for example , a roast chicken skin was used to simulate burns . The majority of the techniques and technologies used in the CSI shows are accurate and true to reality . 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). In fact , they do not interview suspects, they do not write or execute search warrants, and they do not make arrests . In real life they are directed around the scenes by the detectives and supervisors, not the other way around . Detectives are commissioned police officers . CSU's are civilian personnel, not sworn and do not have the same arrest powers as police officers . At the conclusion of each case the culprits almost always confess their guilt to investigators that would most assuredly not be the people interviewing . The expert team is headed by Detective Taylor , masterfully played by Gary Sinese , he steals the show as an intelligent and resourceful Inspector . He heads a group of investigators who work crimes amid the rough urban ambient . Taylor is the last member of the NYPD hired during Rudy Giuliani's term as Mayor of New York City and his wife was killed in the 911 attacks . This character was originally offered Andy Garcia and Ray Liotta , but both of whom declined the role . Melina Kanakaredes as the Greco-Italian Stella Bonasera , her legalistic mind allows little gray area in cases , until she is forced to fight for her life , this alters her reaction to cases involving abused women . Stella has a close relationship with her CSI partner , Lab Supervisor Mac Taylor, with whom she shares a deep trust and respect based on endless hours of work , and literally saving one another's lives over the years . Edith Cahill as Detective Flack who bridges the gap between the old-school NYPD and new generation of CSI , carrying with him an intense hatred of the "bad guy" , his approach to solving crimes , while sometimes borderline , is nonetheless always effective . Hill Harper as Sheldon Hawkes , he started the show as a medical examiner, but moved over to field duty as a CSI . Carmine Giovinazzo as Danny Messer who is married to his co-worker Detective Lindsay Monroe , Anna Belknap , whom he calls "Montana" because she was born and raised there ; they have a daughter named Lucy . And Robert Joy as Sid , he is the quirky, crazy, funny ME or Medical Examiner . The series formed by 197 episodes develop his own peculiar style , full of action tension , thrills , chills , twists and turns . It is with plenty of suspense , restless movements , violence gore and guts . The action moments are compactly made and fast moving . The robbing , kidnappings , heists , and murders deliver the goods filled with non-stop action , shocks , intrigue and suspenseful . The series follows the C.S.I Las Vegas wake and its sequels and rip-offs such as CSI Miami , CSI Cyber , CSI immortality and CSI NY.
nightwatch01
CSI - New York has jumped the shark. Like some other reviewers, I have some LE experience which I have to suspend in order to just relax & enjoy the show -- something I've been able to do for the past several years.But the plots are becoming more & more insulting to the viewers over the past year or so. 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. Then in what must have just been a day or two later there he is back in NYC at the apartment of the CSI officer he hates, holding a gun to his head.Several prior episodes featuring this bad guy had similar activity.The one other recent episode that blatantly insults everyone's intelligence had the plot lines of a bad-guy living in an apartment directly across from Mac Taylor's examining his poison gas agent right in front of his picture window, no more than 20' away from Taylor's picture window. The bad guy didn't think of closing his blinds/curtains, and Taylor happened to be home, recovering from a fall (one that would have permanently disabled a real human) & observed the activity. To complicate the plot even more, one of Mac's old love interests (the one with the pattering eyes & looks like she's has plastic surgery) just happens to show up at the bad-guy's place.This show is becoming a cartoon, and I'm tired of it. I don't watch CSI Miami (the hot chicks can't overcome my dislike for David Caruso's acting) & haven't noticed the same level of inane plot-lines with CSI Las Vegas yet.
disdressed12
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
