CSI: NY – Season 4 Part 1
Reviewer: Tim Isaac
Issue 106 August 2008
(1 votes, average: 7 out of 10)
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Blood in the Big Apple.
The Lowdown: Mac Taylor returns from London minus his girlfriend, but with a stalker calling him wherever he is at 3.33am. However there are still plenty of murders to investigate, including someone who appears to have travelled through time, and a killer they try to track through the online game, ‘Second Life’.
Review: While CSI: NY didn’t start off that strongly, it’s steadily grown into a great crime show, surpassing the quality of ‘CSI: Miami’ (partly because that show has gone off the boil) and nipping at the heels of the original ‘CSI’. While the crimes in these 12 episodes are so bizarre that in most shows they’d just be ridiculous, somehow CSI: NY pulls it off. It’s partially down to Gary Sinise, whose stoic character can ground even the most preposterous plot development. And he has a lot to deal with across these 12 episodes, from being stalked by someone who seems obsessed with the numbers 333, to dealing with dead possible time travellers, a woman killed while partying on a Times Square billboard, and an apparent zombie attack.
Sadly though, due to the box set coming so fast on the heels of its airing on US and UK TV, you don’t get any special features whatsoever (although there should be some on the Season 4 Part 2 box set, due later this year). Things could have been worse though, as while most US TV shows have suffered severely truncated seasons this year because of the Writer’s Strike, CSI: NY still managed to crank out 21 episodes, which is comparable to what most shows do anyone, and only three less than they made last year. It will mean the Part 2 box set is slightly shorter than usual, but ensures there’s more Big Apple forensics than we might have expected.
FILM: 8
EXTRAS: 1
DVD Info:
Certificate: 15
Starring: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Hill Harper, Anna Belknap
Directed By: Various, 2007-2008
Distributor: Momentum
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Visuals: 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Running Time: 500 mins
Price: £34.99
Special Features:
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Episode Summaries
August 19th, 2008 at 11:54 am
After the great finish to season 3, I was expecting much the same from season 4. Unfortunately, what I got was definately not what I expected.
The first half of this boxset seems more interested in jumping the shark than anything else, with it’s tales of time travelling, virtual world police raids, and ghost stories, it’s a diffrent feel for the show, and it really doesn’t feel good. But maybe the writers realised this eventually, and soon we are back to familiar territory, with interesting cases and an interesting side-line about Mac being stalked, with an explosive mid-season finale to boot.
As glad as I was to see the show finally pull itself back together, I can’t help but feel a little dissappointed over the fact that the show seems to have lost total interest in Danny & Lindsay’s clearly blossoming romance from last season. It’s almost as if they’re acting like the whole thing never happened :?.
But on a plus, they finally got rid of the rather bland Peyton :).