Season 14 has been relatively bad compared to previous seasons. This is the worst acting I've seen on the series. There are some very few experienced actors here giving terrible performances in this one so it might be due to direction and production. I. Particularly Shue and Thompson might as well be reciting their lines off a note pad. The dialogue is clumsy and clunky. The basic outline subject matter was a bit unrealistic to begin with but there still should have been plenty to work here. What they came up with didn't work well enough. Ted Danson and Elizabeth Shue's character's continue to be the weakest of the entire CSI run. That's tough for me to say because I like them. Shue is even worse in this one than usual. She's just not suited to the character she's asked to play here. The other main principles are fine. They haven't been given much. George Eads was missing in this one and boy was he missed and the others had diminished responsibilities in this one. Why? Who knows. Maybe the show runners are attempting to tank the show. All and all a disappointing effort across the board but this show is judged against its own stellar previous works. Even the worst CSI crime scene episode is still a C and better than at least half the other shows on the air.
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