Nothing is bigger than CSI: Miami. Nothing!

Gimme a break.I shout it out every week when Horatio says,"What do we have here,Frank?"(Frank:I love him,a true Florida cracker,right out of Elmore Leonard).Why is CSI:NY such a bore?90% of the shows on TV are set in NY.Yawn!

This is still a great show, or it wouldn't be at the top of the list! And The fact that David Caruso walked away from a #1 show over 10yrs ago is pointless, let it go!! I among many other viewers still watch CSI, and I'm sure, just like every other show out there, it too will wind up in TV heaven just like all the others.

csi Miami is hot because David Caruso is perfect for the part. The show is a blast and I am so glad that it's a Miami story. The best city in the world amd the most gorgeous.

I completely agree that it is the WORST of the CSIs. Not only that, every time I watch it I want to do bodily harm to David Caruso. Does anyone need to be THAT suspenseful?! I mean it's almost like a SNL skit where everyone around him is normal but he keeps saying really dramatic stuff like "Don' go to far" and "Life is tough" and everyone ignores him. I'm actually commenting because I was hoping someone out there might know how to contact the writers. I know it's a stretch but someone has GOT to stop the madness!!! I think the show may ACTUALLY be pretty good if they just got rid of "Horatio."

Ok here is the opinion of someone living in Asia.

CSI Miami is the most popular CSI here for many reasons:

1) Its not as gory as LV.
2) The scenery is the best of the three shows.
3) Caruso holds more weight than Peterson or Sinise.
4) NY looks too much like most Asian cities like Hong Kong, so the location isnt that exciting.
5) LV rarely have cases in the actual casino's or the strip where people who watch the show want to see more of.
6) Hot chicks in Miami - just like Baywatch like someone mentioned above.
7) Crimes arent as convuluted as LV trying to out-trick the viewer and not as typical as NY.
8) Best The Who song of the 3 (ok I'm reaching there)
9) Many excellent Horatio Caine impersonations done here...acting so wooden and predictable that he is easy to make fun of, BUT most viewers enjoy because he does always seem to be the same character and its a procedural show not a character-driven show.
10) C'mon, its Miami - why do you think Magnum P.I. lasted so long - we like good detective shows with beautiful scenery.

I think the way CSI Miami plays on Plasma TV gives it an edge over the OTHER two CSI'S. Indeed, since that nick guy with the stupid hair cut made the show a joke. Either way, its time to move on beyond the CSI'S and need newer and better crime shows. At this point its just milking the cash cow.

CSI: Miami works a lot better when you realise that the character of Horatio Caine is mentally ill. He believes that there are cameras filming everything he does which is why he stands at such weird angles with his hands on his hips all the time and puts his sunglasses on in an overly dramatic way. He also makes statements that are clearly designed with opening credits in mind. What we don't see is that when he delivers one of his usual one-liners is that as we cut to the credits the other characters are standing around looking at each other wondering why he just said that and walked away without finishing his job.

i too am fascinated by how bad caruso's one liners are - my husband and i look at each other and laugh every single time he says his incredibly cheesy line right before the opening credits and we roll our eyes whenever he speaks to someone without looking anywhere in their general direction - but having said that, we watch religiously - what can i say, it's like a bad train wreck - we just can't look away

Dear Lord how I hate "CSI:Miami." For a while, I watched it in a kind of stunned horror, the way one watches a traffic accident in progress (or, to give another televisual example, "7th Heaven"--*shudder*), but I had to stop. TWoP once referred to David Caruso as "the place where good lines go to die." And then the killed off the only character I enjoyed, and it was over for me.

I never watched "NYPD Blue" when Caruso was on it, so I have no idea if he was as limited an actor then as he is now (he never really varies the intonation on any sentence he speaks--they all follow the same tonal pattern); I'm really curious how he became a big enough star to think he could make it on the big screen.

Besides tiring of the sucking wound that is Caruso's Horatio, though, I also wearied of the contempt with which every potential suspect was treated, even after he or she was cleared. No apologies. Nothing. That may be how it's done in Miami, but it doesn't do much for my viewing.

The biggest problem, though, was the problem with the entire CSI franchise--are we *really* supposed to believe that the lab geeks are out roughing up perps, and interviewing and/or arresting suspects? Seriously? It's just ludicrous!

Ryan,

I think we might have been separated at birth. We seem to think a lot a like. I totally agree with you about CSI:Miami. I do avoid it at all costs. Can't stand it, but you will find me on thursdays watching the original, or dvring it. Also, I don't care for CSI:NY, can't stand the lady that was on Providence. I think because the character she played on Prividence was such a weak woman when it came to her relationships.

Erica