I enjoyed this episode greatly, as a pagan...but it truly bothers me that the show paints Wiccans in such a ridiculous light. The storyline is so stereotypical in making witches seem like the type to do ridiculous dark Magick, when in reality, their creed is to do harm to no one. I usually wouldn't even post a review, but this is one of those things that irks me.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series)
The Book of Shadows (2014)
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Mumbo, Meet Jumbo
Hitchcoc4 April 2021
As a group of high school students stand by their lockers at the end of the day, a science teacher comes into the hall, his boy aflame. He dies right there. The CSI's try conventional methods to get at the cause of his plight, carelessness, revenge, and so on. But as time passes, it is determined there is a Wicca group in the faculty. Soon there is another body. We find out that there are a lot of secrets. I feel bad I went to such a dull high school. Hardly anyone ever got murdered. There were very few cult worshippers in the math department. Just saying!
The Wicca Coven
claudio_carvalho24 December 2023
While shooting a video on the corridor of his high school showing his mates and the school, Mason Brewer hears an explosion. Out of the blue, the chemistry teacher Chet Messner runs through the corridor on fire and dies completely burned. The first impression of the CSIs is that some experiment has gone awry in Chet's classroom, but they find a threatening message in his cell phone. Greg and Morgan process the room and learn that he was preparing his class. Soon they discover that the threatening message came from Mason's phone, and he is brought with his mother to the station for interrogation. Mason is a geek and was upset with his B+ since he was ill, reason why he sent the message that he copied from a movie. Dr. Robbins finds that Chet was poisoned by cyanide and could have had a seizure on the fire of his experiment. They also find a life rune, which is a gang symbol, and was buying large quantities of red phosphorus powder, component for preparing meth. Det. Crawford and Nick go to Chet's house and find a bloody knife and The Book of Shadows. Soon they find that Chet was making witchcraft, and not meth, and his coven was performing a banishment spell on Chet. Now the course of the investigation change.
"The Book of Shadows" is a strange episode of "CSI", with the story of a sect. It is difficult to believe that a group of teachers, including a chemistry teacher, form a Wicca coven and practice witchcraft in a crime story involving a group of scientists. The are better and better and more credible episodes of "CSI". My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "The Book of Shadows"
"The Book of Shadows" is a strange episode of "CSI", with the story of a sect. It is difficult to believe that a group of teachers, including a chemistry teacher, form a Wicca coven and practice witchcraft in a crime story involving a group of scientists. The are better and better and more credible episodes of "CSI". My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "The Book of Shadows"
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