Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4782 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-03-27
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 6

Customer Reviews

The best of the bunch

I never really got into the original CSI series and I've never been quite sure why. I think part of the reason is that the characters just didn't hit the right cords with me. I enjoyed watching bits of CSI Miami as I found the characters much more likeable but at the same time I could take it or leave it and wouldn't class myself as a `fan' as such. CSI New York on the other hand sucked me right in from the first episode I watched. I've always been a Gary Sinise fan but after snatching one or two episodes on tv I got straight on the internet and ordered CSI New York Seasons 1 and 2. I wasn't disappointed.

The characters in CSI New York all work together and form for me the perfect team. While they are portrayed as friends and colleagues it's done in such a way that it feels natural....unlike in CSI and CSI Miami where I felt the relationships were always a bit forced. Likewise the storylines in CSI New York range from subtle to outlandish but they all just seem to work together somehow.

All in all I think CSI New York is the best of the bunch and that's in no small part due to the starring of Gary Sinise as Mac Taylor. Pairing him with Melina Kanakaredes (Stella), Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny), Vanessa Ferlito (Aiden), Hill Harper (Sheldon Hawkes) and Eddie Cahill (Don Flack) didn't do the series any harm either.

My new favourite TV show
'CSI:NY' is the 3rd spin-off of the excellent CSI franchise and is set around the city of New York. This series is a lot more dark and grittier than it's Vegas and Miami counterparts, giving it a much more real and disturbing feel to it. Mac Taylor leads the team of CSI's played by the brilliant Gary Sinise, alongside Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes), Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo), Aiden Burn (Vanessa Ferlito), medical examiner Dr. Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper) and Detective Don Flack (Eddie Cahill).

The thing I like the most about the NY series is the character interaction seems a lot more natural than it does in the Miami series and the earlier Vegas series. I actually felt like the characters know and care for one another and this all adds to the realism of the show. The excitement and action seems much more subtle yet realistic that the other 2 shows and the writers also throw a lot of background on the lead characters into the mix so that you begin to build up their characters fairly quickly and even start to care about them yourself as the episodes go on. There's a couple of things that let the show down (as well as the other 2 CSI shows) like the endless coincidences to lead to the killer, or the wire-thick hairs they find at the scenes, but I guess this is to stop the show lasting forever and stop it from getting boring.

Stand-out episodes for me were the season finale "What you see is what you see", which throws Taylor right into the middle of a murder with him being the lead witness; "Tanglewood" which is about some of the street gangs in New York and also reveals some more on Danny's background; "Creatures of the Night" where the whole of Central Park is the crime scene and also "Til Death do we Part" where the grooms at weddings are dropping dead at the alter for no apparent reason.

Overall this is an amazing start to a great new series and is possibly my favourite of the 3 CSIs now.I just love the characters, the locations and the investigations and definitely will be watching the next 2 series of this show very soon!

Easily as good as the other CSI's
Each of the CSI franchise series has its own sense of identity and its own distinct 'feel' both in terms of the teams and the style of filming and set production. CSI NY has a darker look and feel - literally. Some of the scenes inside CSI HQ are almost Gothic in the way dark areas of shadow surround the areas of highlighted brightness where examinations and tests take place. The whole thing has a more subdued feel than either CSI LV or CSI Miami but the cityscape provides a much broader and varied panorama for dramas to take place.

Gary Sinese as Mac is superb - not the exuberance of Horatio nor the 'other worldiness' of Grissom - far more rooted in the real world with a weariness borne of the after-effects of and the physical proximity to 911. It's true that his team isn't yet as well developed or individualised as those in the other two CSI teams, but the pairing of Mac and Stella is probably the most believable and interesting in the whole CSI franchise.

This is definitely a series to catch if thus far you have only encountered CSI Miami or Las Vegas.