I've been a fan of CSI (a Bruckenheimer production) for the last couple of years. This year, of course, they have expanded the offerings to a third TV show and I have just reached saturation.
I can only stand so many decomposing corpses, exotic wounds, and burn victims. It seems like the show has become little more than an excuse for an evening horror show (feeding on that well-known American love of the horror genre). I've got to ask, is this a particularly American thing? I don't really know if the rest of the world likes horror so much. Well, the English do... but the French, Germans, Italians, Japanese?
I see it as a rising trend I suppose. I have seen a couple of horrific Japanese horror films now that I think of it and a couple of German ones as well.
In any event, I'm just about at the point of swearing off watching the CSI shows. I used to enjoy the forensic science aspect (as unrealistic as it is) but the "let's follow the bullet as it enters the brain" photography has just reached gruesome levels.
The first time I ever saw this "technique" was in "The Three Kings" where Marky Mark (sorry, Mark Wahlberg) gets shot. Nifty then, tired now.
How about an original show.. I like "Wire in the Blood" but I think it's probably too lengthy (and perhaps too intellectual) for American TV.
Posted by artandscience at November 22, 2004 10:30 AM | TrackBack