I'm only a casual "CSI" fan, but I tuned in Thursday night to see what Quentin Tarantino would do with his 2-hour season finale. I had eagerly watched his small-screen debut in 1994 on an episode of "ER" and found it indistinguishable from any other episode. But this time was different; this "CSI," entitled Grave Danger, went straight for the throat. It also gave actor George Eads (as Nick Stokes) a chance for some Emmy gold for his role as the unwitting CSI agent buried alive for an excruciating length of time. When Uma Thurman awoke to find herself in a similar situation in Kill Bill, at least QT didn't keep her there for long. (He seems to have the worst "buried alive" fetish since Poe.) The episode also featured some other terrific QT touches, such as clever uses of rock music, snatches of dialogue lifted from other movies, and creative cameos by John Saxon, Tony Curtis and the late Frank Gorshin, shining in his final role. All in all, this 120 minutes of television sends everything else around into tears of shame.
| :: posted by Jeffrey M. Anderson, 5/23/2005 | Comments (0) Links to this post |
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