I hate CSI: Miami!
Oh, dear, lord.
Could the episode I watched have been any more ridiculous?
In the episode Urban Hellraisers, the plotline featured a gang of young college hoodlums who decide to play a live action version of Grand Theft Auto Urban Hellraisers. It featured the following incredible plot points (I’d normally fear spoiling the plot or someone, but the writers beat me to it):
- About fifty beauty shots of the Hummer H3, interspersed with ten minutes of Hummer H3 commercials, and followed up by a plea to go to cbs.com to watch a special ending, featuring even more Hummer commercials.
- The usual plot device of having an “infinite resolution camera” which happens to allow them to read the sticker in the window of a car from hundreds of feet away.
- Cliché about gamers gone crazy, who are playing the game for real.
- Cliché about gamer playing himself to death and dying of renal failure.
- The “winner” of the game turns out to be a nerdy girl who was “just trying to fit in.”
- The mastermind behind the entire crime spree was an unscrupulous game developer who planned the whole thing to please his stockholders by driving up interest in the game, who comically asserts that “I’ll never do a day behind bars!”
Could this show be any more stupid? Honestly, I’m beginning to look back at Three’s Company for instances of plot sophistication. If you are a writer for this show, send your paycheck back: you are ripping of the company you work for.
100% Crap.