The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that.
'CSI' has not only remained a top-rated show through seven seasons; it has had real-world consequences. Police and prosecutors complain of a 'CSI' effect' that leads juries to demand more physical evidence than they used to expect. College officials use the same term to describe spiking enrollment in forensic-science programs.
The thing that attracted me to 'CSI' is that these guys are always professional, but underneath, it's teeming with a heavy shadow. Maybe even some decadence and some weirdness with certain characters! And that always intrigued me as an actor.
Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.
On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.
I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out.
In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.
I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'