CSI: Miami (TV Series) Blood Sugar (2010) User Reviews

This Sugar Not So Sweet

[ccthemovieman-1 · 20 March 2012]

Buried in a silo filled with sugar? That's what happens to a man here in this tale of greed, illegal immigrants, fathers-and-sons. So, an explosion makes the man an interesting corpse: one layered in sugar from head to toe.

There are a whole bunch of suspects in this case involving a semi-corrupt sugar-cane business near Miami.

All along the refinery owner. "Roger Cavanaugh" (Gregg Henry) is portrayed as the main bad guy but as the story progresses we meet other viable suspects. Anyone of them could have done it, for various reasons. Of course, this is not unusual in a CSI episode, but this one's a little different.

Do not watch if you have seizures or get motion sick

[helpfulhat · 1/10 · 12 January 2019]

I will admit that I haven't watched CSI: Miami in years, is this what the show has become? I feel stupider having watched the little amount I did.

I don't usually write reviews, but I saw the first 5 minutes of this episode and felt like not writing a review was doing everyone else a disservice. Please, learn from my mistake: do not watch this episode.

First of all, I'm not joking about the seizure warning. I'm not epileptic but I got so motion sick from watching it that I couldn't continue.

The camera starts off with a pretty and colorful ocean and sky shot like usual, and then it cuts crazily back and forth between people picking plants and the inside of a factory. By "cuts crazily" I mean the shots don't last more than a second, giving you only enough time to realize the location changed before it flashed back to the original shot. I felt like I was being subliminally brainwashed.

This lasted for the first 2 minutes, I think. I admit I couldn't really focus on the clock at this point so I'm only guessing.

Then, suddenly there's a fire! The factory? is on fire. I'm assuming it's the factory, maybe there's a building where the people were picking plants? Who knows. The building is on fire, cars are speeding down the street with a radio announcing for everyone available to come help.

Now the CSI: Miami team is exploring the still-flaming building. I mean this literally, things are still on fire and Horatio and Erik are wandering around this building using flashlights, climbing over wreckage, shouting for people to answer, wearing their standard, everyday business casual wear, no protection from the fire they're climbing over. They're faster to respond than even the first responders.

Horatio Caine single-handedly rescues the remaining survivors, of course.

I'm still nauseous, so I turned the TV off.

I feel like 5 minutes of this episode stole 50 IQ points from me. I'd like them back, please.