CSI: Miami (TV Series) Curse of the Coffin (2006) User Reviews

Aw, Curses!

[ccthemovieman-1 · 8/10 · 4 December 2007]

"Do you play golf, Trevor?

"Yeah. Is that illegal or something?

"No, but killing your wife is!"

Doesn't that sound like so many kind of lines you hear on the CSI programs when they interview several suspects each show? I almost never hear someone questioned from a CSI man or woman, who answers to them respectfully. They are always punks, male or female, young or old, white or black. Every week you see a stream of suspects you want to slap in the face!

Anyway, we have a dead woman lying on the floor in a house, probably killed with some blunt force object. She has a little toy coffin placed on top of her. What is that all about? Apparently, some voodoo-type thing as Eric and Ryan find a nearby closet with a goat's head. Eric says it's some voodoo curse and since he's Catholic, he doesn't want to touch it. Gee, I hope all Catholics don't believe that nonsense.

This is one of the corniest shows I've seen, with all the manipulations regarding the voodoo (real one minute, fake the next, back and forth) but it was still entertaining and, once again, fantastically photographed and computerized. The night shots at the cemetery were absolutely stunning. The incredible colors on this TV show amaze me every week.

CSI: Miami - Curse of the Coffin

[Scarecrow-88 · 9/10 · 13 September 2015]

One of my all-time favorite CSI: Miami episodes is loaded with unpredictable plot developments and twists with a cool car explosion where Horatio Caine leaves the vehicle saying as only he could, "Burn, baby, burn." I really do believe that at this point in 2006, the show is firing on all cylinders. Stylistically and in terms of how the show was unveiling all its twists in that Miami setting that is so easy on the eyes (I like that the show went away from using the style of CSI:LV and started utilizing the sunshiny and bright of Miami that it has available into the way the camera captures the use of light and how those involved incorporated so many Michael Bay aesthetics into the visual presentation; split screen, steadi-cam, at-an-angle face shots, and those long-distance pans), along with the many methods behind how to catch a killer (or killers as was the case in this episode), the often tragic or unsettling reasons for the murder committed, and how the show used all the tools technology had to provide an inside look at how the CSI investigate crimes.

In "Curse of the Coffin", you have Santeria (a goat's head among other ritualistic items were found the murdered CEO advertising boss' home), a little coffin used in the mix of Voodoo and Roman Catholicism that seems to have given members of Horatio's forensic team the spooks, murders involving a golf club and pick axe (the pick axe occurring in a cemetery no less), stolen gold bars (the MacGuffen of the episode), blow fish poison (which, when absorbed in the skin, can render a body seemingly dead, with the person taking it (if in small doses; a large dose results in death) eventually awakening), a body in a morgue that moves on a slab with Wolfe going to Alexx about it in total disbelief, a laptop combusting in flames as Wolfe and Calleigh discuss the supposed curse, a curious EVP (a device was planted in a mausoleum by a ghost hunting group to capture the voices of the dead) that might just implicate the chief killer, a car purposely posted on a street by cops to capture possible thieves trying to steal them, and meth dealers. It all ends with the coffin gone, underneath the beach chair of the murderess, on some sandy location probably with no extradition treaty with the US, her hot body in a bikini, smiling away at what she got away with.

This is so much fun because it offers a little bit of everything, but it is also once again a fun showcase for the dynamic between Wolfe, Calleigh, and Delko in regards to the whole Santeria curse ordeal. Calleigh is the staunch disbeliever, Delko is the totally respectful Catholic who won't process any evidence that resolves around Santeria, and Wolfe, at first, disregards Santeria only to start accepting its possibility as the case produces one bizarre development after another that serves as detriments their solving the murder of the female business owner. Lauralee Bell, veteran of the soap, The Young & the Restless, is the murdered CEO. When Natalia Boa Vista is processing DNA and the table shatters out from under her, the episode pretty much sets up that when Wolfe says he hates this case you understand altogether why.

Something odd in an otherwise odd episode

[wombat921 · 9/10 · 25 March 2008]

While watching this episode in HD, my wife and I noticed a weird bubble pop up while Wolfe and Callie are talking about looking for trace inside the golf club cover. Ran it back in slow mo, and it was actress Emily Proctor's contact lens flipping out of her eye! Check it out yourself!

A great episode of a great show. I really wish that someone would do more trivia on this part, or trivia on each episode.

I didn't realize that I had to write so much. Ummmmmmm.....Emily Proctor is from my home state and we went to the same college at about the same time, but I don't remember ever meeting her. Uhhhhhhh...the colors on the show are really pretty?!?!? This CSI is my wife's favorite because of the way that it more than borders unrealistic (seriously, how often does Caruso put on a lab coat compared to firing his gun). Is this enough text now? Not really fair to folks who wanted to drop a short note.