When you are regularly the #1 show on television - week in and week out - is there really any need for further accolades? Is there any doubt that the DVD release of the show will be anything less than stellar? Not in the case of CSI; that's for sure. This juggernaut rolled on in it's 5th season, and proved to be the best the show has had to offer to date.
Prior to this season starting, there was a lot of concern that the show would lose some of it's immense story development due to the two spinoffs which came from this great show. Instead, the writers of the program redeveloped the way the show develops from week to week in an effort to keep the show from going stale. The show finds its way into the personal lives of the characters more than in previous episodes. This is both good and bad throughout. It's good because it helps bring you even further into the show, but at times you just don't care about the veiled attempts to start dating, build relationships or follow jealousies between women toward show star William L. Petersen. For his part, Petersen takes a bit of a backseat than from any other season of CSI to date. He's more of an overseeing main character than the focus of each episode. This is probably the best move the writers have taken, as you end up delving much further into the work of the other investigators; specifically Jorga Fox (the feisty Sara Sidel), the youthful Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders) and the always smooth Greg Dourdan (Warrick Brown). Fox makes the biggest impression throughout as she becomes outright insubordinate and ends up suspended for a time during the season. However, all is made good as Gil Grissom (Petersen) delves deep into her personality to find the reasons for her anger. As has been the case, the characters are some of the most developed in the history of sitcom television.
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