...two nights ago. It's not a bad show, but the part being played by David Caruso stinks to high hell. It's like his lines were written by a different guy then the one who wrote everyone else's lines. He acts like he's some sort of comic book character, what with the one-liners and all. My guess is that this was supposed to be a merging of Miami Vice and some other show, but I tell ya, Edward James Olmos is turning in his grave watching his counterpart.
David Caruso makes the show practically unwatchable. I cringe any time he says anything. Edward James Olmos isn't dead.
It's the truth. We gave up calling it CSI:Miami and we call it simply "Miami Style" because it seems that's Caruso's beginning line to every episode. Random police officer: "Cain that guy didn't disappear... he was murdered!" Horatio Cain: "Murdered........MIAMI STYLE" YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's a effort to graft the Johnny Murphy character onto the "CSI" concept. Only thing is, it wasn't really David Caruso who created Murphy; it was the writing and direction on "NYPD Blue"... So all "CSIM" got was Caruso's memory of a character who has no business at all in the show he's in, and lacks the accuracy the directing once gave it; all he's got of it is the posturing. I'd say the show was salvageable if they just got him out and built around a new character or even one of the others-- but its ratings are quite high, so that's not an issue. It doesn't need salvaging, it just sucks... and that Hummer is the silliest looking thing on the tube...
I tried watching it for a while, and I was just turned off by the incredible gore. It was way worse than CSI: Regular, which is already pretty close to my limit.
I found him annoying at first, but he grows on you after awhile. I like the show and his character now.