2008 Woodie Awards
Crime shows premiere on CBS
By: Allyson Kinard
Issue date: 10/3/08 Section: TimeOut
I've learned my scheduling abilities over the past three years not from high school but from CBS. Over the last three years, I've somehow managed to arrange my already rigorous schedule based not around school or softball but around the CBS crime dramas. I came to find out, however, that I certainly wasn't the only one to do such a thing. So I'm writing this article - which in the near future may become a column - for all of the other dedicated CBS fans out there who couldn't quite make it to the TV in time.
As usual, the much-anticipated CBS premiere week didn't fall short of expectations.
Last season ended in a barrage of cliffhanger endings, thanks to the enthusiastic response the season before when CSI left Jorja Fox's character kidnapped and left for dead in the desert all summer. Most of CBS's crime dramas followed suit by creating their own individual takes on this technique. So, for all you other hardcore CBS fans out there:
"CSI: Miami" ended with Horatio Caine (David Caruso) taking a round in the chest while waiting on his son, Kyle, and Kyle's mother, Julia, to meet him at the airport, after a long drawn-out battle with dangerous arms dealers. The episode served to make me realized how much amusement I get out of Horatio's overdone monotone every Monday night, by taking him out of the episode completely. It also made Calleigh Duquesne's (Emily Proctor) bad Southern accent that much more unbearably annoying, and I was unexpectedly overjoyed to find out that Horatio was faking his death and Wolfe (Jonathan Togo) was still a good guy. So, I welcomed the nightly Horatio-ism like never before and called my dad to celebrate.
"NCIS", the show with arguably the best cast on television, shocked us all by disbanding the team. Since this move was clearly economically dumb, it wasn't a huge shock to me that the majority of the team was reinstated within the first episode. Granted, a large amount of the mystery and drama is lacking due to the death of director Jenny Sheppard (Lauren Holly), but we get to hear Ziva's (Cote de Pablo) singing voice and discover that Agent Michelle Lee (Liza Lapira) isn't nearly as boring as she appears. The new Director, Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll), who received heavy criticism from fans during the dramatic response to the season finale, is revealed not to be such a villain after all, and Lee is revealed to be a mole in the department, an ingenious transitioning into the new season.
As usual, the much-anticipated CBS premiere week didn't fall short of expectations.
Last season ended in a barrage of cliffhanger endings, thanks to the enthusiastic response the season before when CSI left Jorja Fox's character kidnapped and left for dead in the desert all summer. Most of CBS's crime dramas followed suit by creating their own individual takes on this technique. So, for all you other hardcore CBS fans out there:
"CSI: Miami" ended with Horatio Caine (David Caruso) taking a round in the chest while waiting on his son, Kyle, and Kyle's mother, Julia, to meet him at the airport, after a long drawn-out battle with dangerous arms dealers. The episode served to make me realized how much amusement I get out of Horatio's overdone monotone every Monday night, by taking him out of the episode completely. It also made Calleigh Duquesne's (Emily Proctor) bad Southern accent that much more unbearably annoying, and I was unexpectedly overjoyed to find out that Horatio was faking his death and Wolfe (Jonathan Togo) was still a good guy. So, I welcomed the nightly Horatio-ism like never before and called my dad to celebrate.
"NCIS", the show with arguably the best cast on television, shocked us all by disbanding the team. Since this move was clearly economically dumb, it wasn't a huge shock to me that the majority of the team was reinstated within the first episode. Granted, a large amount of the mystery and drama is lacking due to the death of director Jenny Sheppard (Lauren Holly), but we get to hear Ziva's (Cote de Pablo) singing voice and discover that Agent Michelle Lee (Liza Lapira) isn't nearly as boring as she appears. The new Director, Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll), who received heavy criticism from fans during the dramatic response to the season finale, is revealed not to be such a villain after all, and Lee is revealed to be a mole in the department, an ingenious transitioning into the new season.
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