Take anorexia and bulimia and throw in a modeling career, and you have what happened here. A high profile model is found in a shopping cart in a nasty part of town, he face filled with incisions, destroying her beauty and killing her. While there are some cheap efforts at humor, the CSI's get back to their roles, trying to figure out how this could happen. We see the incredibly harsh world of fashion modeling, where the women are "meat." We also are let in on a secret that Grissom is keeping from everyone.
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The Weakest Episode
claudio_carvalho6 November 2022
When the police find the corpse of a homeless woman in a shopping kart, Grissom and his team investigate the case. Soon they learn that the victim is the model Ashleigh James, who is a wealthy woman, and her sister Cassie James is the woman who has found her body and is a former model. Grissom investigates the case with his team and discovers what has happened to her.
"The Hunger Artist" is a gruesome and sad episode of CSI, showing the backstage of the fashion world of models. The cruel need of keeping their shapes with diets is disclosed and the crime is well-resolved. The rat scene is nasty. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Artista com Fome" ("The Hunger Artist")
"The Hunger Artist" is a gruesome and sad episode of CSI, showing the backstage of the fashion world of models. The cruel need of keeping their shapes with diets is disclosed and the crime is well-resolved. The rat scene is nasty. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Artista com Fome" ("The Hunger Artist")
CSI:Crime Scene Investigation-The Hunger Artist
Scarecrow-882 January 2011
Warning: Spoilers
We see in this episode of CSI(the second season finale)Grissom's hearing loss and a visit to a specialist specify a possible future of complete deafness, but the case concerns a popular super model(all over magazines and billboards)found dead in a pauper's baggage cart under an overpass(for extra yuck, a rat exits the corpse's mouth!). The CSI team learn that she was suffering from both bulimia and anorexia, and that she had this notebook with formulas which Sara attempts to decipher. This model, Ashleigh(Tricia Helfer of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA fame), had a visitor to her home the night of her death, a coat with crabs and finger print found in blood in the sink could find out who that mysterious person is. A sister who is a mental case(herself once a model, ruined by a ruthlessly cruel agent demanding skinniness through any means, including eating disorder or drugs)living on the streets, an agent demanding perfection who had previously left her, and a fan who loved her all are potential suspects. This episode speaks seriously about the psychological and physical consequences of the pursuit of perfection in the modeling world, the detrimental and mental anguish because of the demands for maintaining a certain body weight and beauty. Grissom's conversations with Cassie(an excellent Susan Misner;her character quite a philosopher, albeit in a haphazard way)are quite interesting and rather enlightening. What the CSI team uncover about Ashleigh as they work on her case turns up plenty of disturbing facts. The modeling world is definitely put under the microscope and the examination of what goes on speaks for itself.
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duku658 March 2021
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