'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation -- The First Season' - Blu-ray review
(Note: This review refers to the Blu-ray version of the DVD.)
William Petersen has left the TV series, but his Gil
Grissom lives on through DVD sets and now the Blu-ray debut of the original
"CSI." He's a bit sanctimonious as he preaches the gospel of science and turns
cases into graduate school field trips for his junior agents, the better to give
his running commentary. It's a little obvious at times (and more apparent in
marathon viewing) but it set the style of investigative procedural that now
defines American crime TV. All 23 first-season episodes on five discs in a fat
case with hinged trays (the mechanism is clever but fragile; my set arrived
broken and the trays spilling out of the case), plus commentary on the pilot,
two featurettes and deleted scenes/outtakes among the supplements.
