I won't get fooled again...
When I made “CSI: Miami” a Pick of the Week last week, I said it was because you wouldn’t want to miss the cheesy goodness.
But if you took my advice, you didn’t get cheesy goodness. Instead, you got one of the worst single episodes of a television show I’ve ever seen.
My apologies to all of you…
I’ve always said that any time “Miami” tries an actual storyline instead of just showing us the pretty people running around it screws up the show. And Monday’s premiere was a perfect example of that.
Continuing from last season’s cliffhanger, Horatio and Delko went to Brazil to make sure Riaz, Marisol’s killer, was brought to justice. Of course, he was released on a technicality and Horatio and Delko took matters into their own hands. Horatio went to his brother, Raymond, and his wife (and Horatio’s unrequited love), Yelena, who Horatio sent to live in Brazil two seasons ago. Why did he go to them? Because Horatio was sure that Raymond was mixed up with Riaz and his drug dealing—which apparently he was. But that was never made clear since Raymond was killed—again!
Apparently, Raymond and Yelena’s son, Ray Jr., was involved with Riaz too, but the reason why was never explained (You got the impression he was somehow trying to help his dad.). He just ended up on a plane to Miami, presumably with packets of heroin in his body—although no one ever tried to get them out.
There was, of course, a showdown with Riaz, but Delko’s fight with him looked like something out of “West Side Story.” And, of course, Horatio had to kill the other drug dealer (whoever he was) to save Ray Jr.
The entire show made absolutely no sense. And I couldn’t believe they went to all of that expense to go to Brazil and had nothing to show for it. There were plenty of pretty shots of the famous Christ the Redeemer statue, but they could’ve just used stock footage for that and saved themselves some money. Not to mention that the sound quality of all the location shots was extremely poor.
The only good thing about the episode is that a Horatio-Yelena coupling is once again a possibility. But if they hadn’t disappointed us with that two seasons ago, the show wouldn’t be in this mess to begin with.
The show’s theme song from The Who promises “we won’t get fooled again.” I, for one, am taking that statement to heart, because if the show doesn’t get this straightened out, I definitely won’t get fooled again. I’ll just stop watching.
