CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) Spellbound (2006) User Reviews

"Psychic" episode one of the more interesting

[chuck-616 · 8/10 · 19 December 2008]

Personally, I found this episode to be one of the more interesting, especially the handling of "occult" issues. The CSI series tends to treat all forms of "epiphany" with respect. They also tend to give some credit to the human mind in all of its complexity.

I find all of this talk about the show having an "anti-Christian" message to be complete rubbish. The certainty that such comments are displaying are laughable. I am certain that there are Jews, Muslims, and even Atheists, who could take this position. Our society doesn't need any more elitism.

That's why this episode in particular is so interesting. The story asks you to accept that the murdered psychic is having a real experience. This facilitates the story. Just like the Superman movies ask you to believe that a person can fly. I see no difference here. This is entertainment. But it is "thinking entertainment". It asks questions of the viewer, and gives them something to think about.

There's nothing at all wrong with that. Some people need to just calm down.

Tragicomic Episode

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 4 February 2023]

Tragicomic Episode The fortune teller Sedona Wiley is found murdered and her Sixth Sense Occult Shop trashed when her clients Anna Leah and Lori return to the shop, where Anna forgot her sunglasses. Grissom arrives at the place and the girls tell him that after they leave Sadona, they were almost hit by a car in the street and Lori slapped the hood of the car. Greg joins Grissom replacing Warrick and he claims he has experience in the occult, and he thinks that Sedona has predicted her own death. They collect evidences and learn that Sedona died with a single bullet. When the retired detective Packey Jameson visits Capt. Brass, he says that he visited Sedona to get information about a cold case that haunts him, the murder of Claire Wallace by her husband Gordon Wallace that he was not able to prove since her body was never found. He drilled about thirty holes in the desert looking for Claire's body. Sedona told him that her body was buried in Summerlin. Now the CSI goes with Packey to look for Claire's body in Summerlin.

"Spellbound" is a tragicomic episode of "CSI", with the story of the murder of the psychic Sedona Wiley that entwins with a cold case. The discovery of the corpse of Claire Wallace in the Summerlin desert is funny and confirms that we hear what we want to hear. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Spellbound"

Yet Another Cultural Subgroup Covered

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 10 February 2021]

This is the CSI moving into the occult (although they've dealt in some rather bizarre, near supernatural topics before). Here, a woman who runs an occult shop is shot and killed. It turns out that she had a taste for finances, as do many charlatans. But the death of a woman who has been searched for for a long time becomes part of the mix, and her husband is at the center. There is also a "white whale" aspect of this.

We Hear What We Want To Hear

[ccthemovieman-1 · 6/10 · 17 April 2007]

It's never surprising to me to see a modern television show, with all its secular writers, give credence to the occult. They certainly don't that to the opposite: Christianity. That's been scoffed at a few times by Bill Petersen's "Grissom" in this show. To be fair, he admits to going to a psychic once but generally isn't a believer in that, either.

The "believers" are everyone else, especially CSI field man "Greg Sanders," who pushes it when he can here. So does a police captain, who claims the psychic who was killed in this show gave him evidence on a past case that no else did. It's all treated with credibility. Thank goodness, "Grissom," after the case has been solved, does fit things into the right places when he explains the problems people have with "perceptions."

In all, no matter how one views "psychics," it wasn't all that great a show and didn't have any suspense to it. However, like almost all CSI episodes, it didn't bore me.