CSI – drama series

Recent fetish. Have been desisting from watching this series for a long while as there were many other investigative thrillers abound. Now that I started off with season 1, even before I could realize I am on to the next season. There is something catchy about those drama series that came in the early 2000’s. Be it sitcoms, crime thrillers, mystery series – after watching the recent ones on air, every one of them seems very down to earth and simple (for want of a better word). There is a very strong human element on each show, with the characters playing the role having a major say on the success. The backdrop for each characters are more defined, researched and at any point in time, are well fertile to have an offshoot series of their own. This human element being the single reason I could find across all of those famous and successful ones, which are equally rich on emotional connect with the audience. Be it FRIENDS, 24 (at least the first 4 seasons), Breaking Bad, Everybody loves Raymond, Seinfeld…the list is endless. But one common aspect is that despite being run on a single stage set for majority of the running time, they were rarely boring. The relatability factor is quite high and the fun elements were from everyday life. With CSI, having started watching the series a full 2 decades after the series premiere, it shows how meticulous their jobs could be. Every evidence is nothing but needle in a haystack kind of a lucky pick. But what they do with those lucky findings make the episodes very interesting. And almost all of them are basic science, with machines/processes presently and in past as well available in general law enforcement. Nothing out of the world or futuristic sci-fi machines that existing only on theory. The CSI people call themselves as scientists who find the evidence and they stick their role to exactly that. In almost all the episodes I’ve seen so far, they correct anyone trying to mix their team as cops, only to let them know that they are from crime lab and not police department. An awesome series so far and loving the simplicity or the vulnerability of people who fight crime in their own way. So much of painstaking work behind the scenes that fails to produce results more often than not. 

While writing this only I realized that y2k is already 2 decades ago !!!! 20 years!!! Is it still 365 days per year or have they changed it long back!!