CSI: Miami (2002)
CSI: Miami is a 2002 drama series created by Ann Donahue and Anthony E. Zuiker. It stars David Caruso, Emily Procter and Adam Rodriguez.
Horatio Caine tilts his head, slides on his sunglasses, and the Miami sun does the rest. The city's crime lab works homicides where the evidence is a blood spatter, a fiber, the rifling on a bullet, and the analysts are sworn officers who carry badges as well as pipettes. David Caruso plays Caine with clipped one-liners while Emily Procter and Adam Rodriguez fill out the team. The first spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the Miami edition keeps the gory-crime, dazzling-graphics template and drenches it in neon, speedboats, and heat.
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What is CSI: Miami about?
Horatio Caine tilts his head, slides on his sunglasses, and the Miami sun does the rest. The city's crime lab works homicides where the evidence is a blood spatter, a fiber, the rifling on a bullet, and the analysts are sworn officers who carry badges as well as pipettes. David Caruso plays Caine with clipped one-liners while Emily Procter and Adam Rodriguez fill out the team. The first spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the Miami edition keeps the gory-crime, dazzling-graphics template and drenches it in neon, speedboats, and heat.
When was CSI: Miami released?
CSI: Miami was released on 23 September 2002.
How many episodes does CSI: Miami have?
CSI: Miami has 232 episodes across 10 seasons.
Who made CSI: Miami?
CSI: Miami was created by Ann Donahue, Anthony E. Zuiker and Carol Mendelsohn.
Where can I watch CSI: Miami?
CSI: Miami is available on Disney+, Hulu, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), Paramount+ (Via Apple TV) and Pluto TV.
Where to watch CSI: Miami
Stream: Disney+, Hulu, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), Paramount+ (Via Apple TV)
Watch free: Pluto TV
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Cast
- David Caruso as Horatio Caine
- Emily Procter as Calleigh Duquesne
- Adam Rodriguez as Eric Delko
- Rex Linn as Frank Tripp
- Jonathan Togo as Ryan Wolfe
- Eva LaRue as Natalia Boa Vista
- Khandi Alexander as Alexx Woods
- Boti Bliss as Maxine Valera
- Omar Benson Miller as Walter Simmons
- Sofia Milos as Yelina Salas
- Christian Clemenson as Tom Loman
- Rory Cochrane as Tim Speedle
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A few thoughts on CSI: Miami
The game L.A. Noire rebuilds this exact job, working homicide scenes for clues and reading suspects across an interrogation table. In print, The Kindaichi Case Files delivers locked-room murders solved by a teenage detective, pure procedural puzzle. For the noir underbelly Miami only hints at, Max Payne pushes crime-scene grit into free-falling tragedy.
The other CSI shows and copycat crime-lab procedurals
CSI: Miami spun out of the original crime-lab show, so start with its source and its cousins. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is the Vegas flagship the spin-off answers to, CSI: Cyber swaps blood spatter for digital forensics, Numb3rs cracks cases through applied mathematics instead of chemistry, and Without a Trace and Major Crimes keep the same case-closed-by-episode's-end format running.
One larger-than-life detective carrying the whole case
Horatio Caine's sunglasses-and-one-liner routine works because Miami hands him every scene, and these shows do the same for their own leads. Castle's mystery novelist talks his way onto NYPD homicides, Elementary reboots Sherlock Holmes as a recovering addict in New York, Ironside runs a squad from a wheelchair, Annika narrates straight to camera, and Vera, Beyond Paradise and The Mallorca Files each ride a single, unmistakable personality through every case.
Classic cop shows that predate the forensic-drama gloss
Long before Miami's crime lab got its own visual effects budget, cop shows solved cases with just legwork and a badge. Dragnet, in its 1951 original and 1967 revival, set the just-the-facts template network procedurals still lean on, Barnaby Jones and Baretta carried the 1970s detective-of-the-week format, and Homicide: Life on the Street, The District and NYPD Blue trade Miami's neon for grittier, station-house realism.