CSI: Miami

With a little TLC, the clone could turn out to be better than the original. [23 Sep 2002]

A sleek whodunit with a superb cast and great promise. [22 Sep 2002]

What's partly holding "CSI: Miami" back from being great is that, as in the original "CSI," the whole premise is too pat.

Taut and tense, show boasts the twists, turns, gadgets and gimmicks made famous by its Las Vegas-set progenitor. It could, however, use a dash of personality --- everybody is relentlessly dour. [20 Sep 2002]

The quality simply did not go in before the "CSI" name went on. [16 Sep 2002]

The dialogue, when it's not establishing authenticity with technical terminology, offers up bad puns and trite truisms unworthy of an otherwise crisp production. [22 Sep 2002]

While everything on the original "CSI" works - the concept, the actors, the script, the direction, the characters - nothing (did I mention nothing?) works on "CSI: Miami." [23 Sep 2002]