I am watching the first season of Silk Stalkings on DVD. I absolutely loved this show where it was first on. The summer after I my freshman year of college (1992), I would stay up, practically all night, to watch Crimetime after Primetime. There were five or six different shows - a different one each night, Monday-Friday. SS was one of them. Later it moved to USA, in syndication, and for more original seasons.

Anyway, the first season of this aired, in 1991. I was surprised when I watched the eighth episode tonight that the "couple" in question were two women, and they are shown kissing and hugging, and there are some frank discussions about sexual preference in the show.

It's not perfect, of course, in that one of these women are killed, after getting into a fight with her lover, about wanting a threesome with some young stud. The main girl, who is so adamant about proclaiming her sexuality, is also the high school girl friend of Chris (one of the two cops on the show, Chris and Rita - for the first 5 seasons), and she ends up sleeping with him. He's a little angry with her - more about the fact that she's gay than the murder (which she did not commit), in fact. They solve the case, and Chris makes peace with her, and they go there separate ways. Still, for 1991 (actually 22 January 1992, I looked up the airdate) that was more than I expected for this type of storyline.

The show was created by Stephen J. Cannell, of The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, and Wiseguy fame, and ended up running for 8 seasons. The main couple Chris and Rita had good chemistry, and eventually RST (right before they left the show). The focus on solving high-class crimes of passion, they call they Silk Stalkings.

It is a bit dated (flourescent colors and very modern (80's) architecture and design), but fun. I was surprized by the science. They were still talking about matching suspects using ABO types, and had to send away to Washington for a DNA match in one case. It's a far cry from CSI. I still love it, though. (Except for the second half of the fifth season, which nobody discusses, and didn't really happen. Nope. Prior to that, you have "Classic Silk" with Chis and Rita, and after that "New Silk" with Tom and Cassie. The second half of the fifth season was some other show, with some other cops, and some other writers - who were smoking some heavy crack or something, and they disappear as mysteriously as they showed up, thankfully, to never be heard of again.)

I love CSI (Vegas) and have from the beginning, and earlier this year I discovered and CSI: New York and really got into it. I don't know that, overall, I love it as much as the original, but it is fresh in a way the original isn't any more, and I enjoy it a little more, right now.

However, I have never been able to get into CSI: Miami. I think at first, it was because I don't care for David Caruso. For the first few episodes Horatio had a partner (a woman) who made him almost a tolerable character, and then she left the show, and shortly thereafter, so did I.

Well, Brendan Fehr was on CSI: Miami last season, and I am a fan of his from Roswell. I decided to start downloading the last season to give it another shot. Well, I like him a lot, but he is just a minor character, and he doesn't really make it worth it to me to watch.

I like Calleigh. The ME is quirky, in an interesting way, and Adam Rodriguez' character is good, too. I am a huge fan of crime shows and procedural dramas, in general. Despite that, I can't get interested in the dynamic of this show. It just leaves me frustrated.

I know a lot of my flist is a fan of the franchise across the board, but this show leaves me absolutely cold, and I have no idea why.

Strange.