CSI one of the best shows of the decade
Posted on December 16, 2009 • By Mika E. (Ipstenu) • 2 min read • 247 wordsSo says TV Guide. So say we all. Ten years ago, science nerds would have been the sidekicks. Today they're the heroes.
Think back to your life 10 years ago. It was 1999 and we were all wondering if the world would end on December 31st, or at least if our financial systems were going to melt down. Some of you were just starting high school or college, and now you have jobs. Careers. Some of you were just getting married, and some had just had their first baby.
Ten years ago, if anyone had told you that you’d be visiting a site for Jorja Fox, best known as a part-timer on ER and The West Wing you might have chuckled and gone back to watching Seinfeld and The Single Guy. The hottest procedural on TV was Law & Order, who’d just spun off Law & Order: SVU and then CBS had this silly idea that people wanted to see criminalists!
That was our world when CSI: Crime Scene Investigation rolled up to our scene, William Petersen popped off a pithy one-liner, Marg Helgenberger sold us on bling-bling, and Jorja Fox gave us a Three’s Company joke.
TV Guide confirms what we always thought, that CSI is one of the best shows of this decade. It certainly changed TV.
Network procedurals are nothing new, but CSI’s intense focus on science was. High-tech gadgets, lots of jargon, and the occasional maggot infestation helped the lab nerds look cooler than the beat cops. The original spawned two successful spin-offs to become the Law & Order of the 21st century.TV Guide
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