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The second half of CSI's first year takes Grissom and his untiring team down some darker paths than before. Nick finally gives in to his urges and sleeps with the hooker who has a crush on him in "Boom"--with predictably disastrous consequences. Sarah is badly affected by the rape and attempted murder of an unknown woman in "Too Tough to Die"; and even Grissom is shaken when dealing with the sudden death of an infant in "Gentle, Gentle". The final episode of the year, "Strip Strangler", is a real shocker, as the team track a brutal serial killer.
Elsewhere, the morbid business of investigating corpses and crime scenes is enlivened with flashes of welcome humour: when a horse is found dead with packets of uncut diamonds concealed in its uterus, Grissom deadpans "This horse is a mule". Throughout, the show remains focused on its scientific remit, only revealing enough of the characters' private lives to provide added piquancy to each investigation: Sarah's complete lack of a life outside her work; Warrick's old gambling habit; Catherine's attachment to her daughter and troubles with ex-husband Eddie; Nick's over-eagerness to please. Grissom, meanwhile, like the Dalai Lama, is the model of inscrutable wisdom. The show itself, like a millennial antidote to a decade of X-Files, is relentlessly empirical: everything that initially seems mysterious--from spontaneous human combustion to an apparent case of vampirism--is always explicable and explained by the team's scientific dedication.
On the DVD: CSI, Series 1 Part 2 contains 11 episodes on three discs. Extra features consist of a brief promo featurette, production notes and a series of on-set interviews with the cast. Oddly for such a cutting-edge show, picture is old-fashioned 4:3 with basic Dolby stereo sound. --Mark Walker
Special Features
Featurette
Production Notes
Extended Cast & Crew Interviews
Dolby 2.0
Production Notes
Extended Cast & Crew Interviews
Dolby 2.0
Subtitles: English
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is the second part of season 1 so if whoever's reading this is thinking of buying the second part I would assume that you've got the first 12 episodes. I have already done a review on part 1 but just as a recap, C.S.I is a show based around the graveyard shift of the Las Vegas Criminal Investigations unit following cases they come across and how they solve those cases using forensics.
The second part of this season has 11 episodes instead of 12 like the first part. There are some extras these being interviews with the stars of the show. Don't get too excited though. The majority of them are just extended versions of the interviews already included as extras on part 1 of the season. There is some new stuff though so it's not a complete rehash. I would like to state another problem with C.S.I though which I did not mention too much on my first review. I noted that there was very little incorporated into the storyline regarding the characters life outside of work. This is still true of the show but I have noticed that sometimes when things are mentioned in the show it seems to have been completely forgotten about in the next episode. For example, one of the characters Catherine was referred to child welfare by her ex-husband after she had been late picking their daughter up from his house due to work duties. That storyline never came to fruition and it was barely mentioned again. It seems to me that the writer tries to put some of the characters personal life into the show but then doesn't bother following up on it. What's the point of including it at all?
Despite this as I've said before C.S.I is a great series that deserves to be as successful as it is. Perhaps these are just teething problems as the writers find the right formula for the show. I'll find this out as I watch the later seasons.
The second part of this season has 11 episodes instead of 12 like the first part. There are some extras these being interviews with the stars of the show. Don't get too excited though. The majority of them are just extended versions of the interviews already included as extras on part 1 of the season. There is some new stuff though so it's not a complete rehash. I would like to state another problem with C.S.I though which I did not mention too much on my first review. I noted that there was very little incorporated into the storyline regarding the characters life outside of work. This is still true of the show but I have noticed that sometimes when things are mentioned in the show it seems to have been completely forgotten about in the next episode. For example, one of the characters Catherine was referred to child welfare by her ex-husband after she had been late picking their daughter up from his house due to work duties. That storyline never came to fruition and it was barely mentioned again. It seems to me that the writer tries to put some of the characters personal life into the show but then doesn't bother following up on it. What's the point of including it at all?
Despite this as I've said before C.S.I is a great series that deserves to be as successful as it is. Perhaps these are just teething problems as the writers find the right formula for the show. I'll find this out as I watch the later seasons.
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Fantastic - bought the first series on the strength of one episode and never looked back! This second half of the first series is even better than the first; developing both the characters but more interestingly the different facets of forensic science. I have heard few criticisms of this and can only hope that the second, third and fourth series come out on DVD. A brilliantly written, superbly acted, cinema-scale tv series that has you hooked and never lets go.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
CSI is the most addictive TV programme I have ever encountered. We hungrily wait for the release of each new DVD collection and have become very sad CSI bores, arguing about the merits of "classic" CSI versus "CSI Miami" (Classic is much better)
It is beautifully produced, gory, fascinating and grips totally for each 40 minute episode. Are we now the only family in London who, when something is spilled and wiped up, shout "Where's the Luminol?" I doubt it.
Buy them, but remember, you have been warned
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CSI Las Vegas season 1 Part 2
Arrived in good time. Playeyed each DVD for about 2 minutes and they all play well. In good Condition, Product as described
Published 18 months ago by robin
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I came across CSI Las vegas by chance. The fact i am gradually buying up from series one speaks for itself.I don't buy Tv seriesvery often. Read more
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The cd's were not in the boxset. Trying to make a collection difficult without box.
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not bad
Heard a lot of hype about the CSI series so thought I would give series 1 a try - I really enjoy forensics & crime thrillers & wasn't disssapointed its not bad. Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2010 by A. Wright
CSI Vegas is the Best.
Buy It. CSI Vegas is the Best of the CSI's on TV. It is as close to the real thing as possible while keeping story lines and flow of the show exciting. Read more
Published on 18 Dec 2009 by Mr. S. Newbury
GREAT STUFF
csi is brilliant if u have never seen it and into murder, police type programs u will love it
Published on 11 Sep 2009 by Mr. PW Harvey
i really liked this
come really qucikly love the dvd i always watch them on the tv its just good to remember the old series x
Published on 8 July 2009 by Ms. T. R. Atkinson
Excellent
Bought as a gift for my partner she absolutely loved it.
She is now on her way to collecting all dvd's of CSI.
She is now on her way to collecting all dvd's of CSI.
Published on 12 Feb 2009 by I. Forrester
csi what more need i say
This is a fantastic show and the second part of the first session was no dissapointment. It was fantastic. Read more
Published on 13 Mar 2005 by Mr. M. J. Fenn
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