K-ville Takes a Shot at CSI
September 17, 2007 by Jason
When you’re the big man on campus, you’re going to have shots taken at you and that’s just what the new Fox show K-ville is doing at CSI.
They’re not quite direct shots, but just little jabs and not much more than what you’d really expect between networks competing for the same audience. Diane Kristine of Blog Critics Magazine isn’t impressed with much of it though it seems.
It could also use a better-defined sense of humour. It’s not completely humourless, but it aims for the usual cop bluster we’ve seen a million times before, usually better. For example, there’s a dig at the forensic magic of CSIs not being available to them –- and, as a bonus, it’s also a dig at CSI — a joke that’s not quite funny, not quite making a point. The Wire did the whole underfunded police department thing a lot more subtly and powerfully. And CSI is a lot slicker in the procedural arena. And Bones has a sharper sense of humour.
I’m not sure why I never thought about it before, but New Orleans would seem to be a potential logical choice for an expansion episode of the CSI franchise. Lot’s of action and potential sub-plots with the back drop of N’awlins looming large.
The story line post-Katrina could be reminiscent of Gary Sinise’s Mac Taylor storyline post 9/11.
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