Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2159 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-10-07
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 3

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Subtitles: English

Synopsis
The last 11 episodes of the first season of this edgy drama series are collected here on this set. All elements of the Las Vegas criminal underworld are faced by the passionate team of forensics investigators who man the graveyard shift.

Customer Reviews

Just as good as the first 12 episodes
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.

Grissom gets it right again
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.

If the first was good then this is even better!
God this is good! Starting of with the acclaimed and well rounded episode of Boom & never stops.

The last episode of this season Strip Strangler, gives the best & worst of each of the characters and what makes this series so good.

Eric Szmanda gets by far the most hilarious scene in the whole show so far in Table Stakes great acting!

Which is what makes this show work & we're not even at season 2, this has the right mix, With Grissom & Catherine at the helm, the ever cool but nice Warrick, the sometimes outspoken Sara & the gorgeous sometime vulnerableNick Stokes (need I say more) as the humanity check & people's person, relationships are everywhere but this sticks to the book and keeps us guessing!

When is season 2 available, its dark but with its humour and highly talented cast, this takes some beating & this first season is a classic, plus the DVD is great just get the original music back aka TV version!