ewx | The Redemption Of Lucius Vorenus

CSI Miami started a new series with what was obviously meant to be a bang as Horatio Caine and Eric Delko headed off to Brazil for revenge. The episode was not exactly packed with surprises though and was disjointed and at times silly. For Caine not to have kept up with his exiled loved ones, to the extent revealed by the surprises in store for him, did not really seem plausible.

If anything this episode and the earlier season finale that led into it felt more like a clearing of the backplot decks, rather than a coherently planned conclusion to the various threads involved.

CSI New York finished up its latest series rather better, managing some genuine surprises, although they were more of the “he wouldn't really” variety. More tightly scripted than its Floridan counterpart I think it still suffered from the use of a Die Hard plot rather than a CSI plot.

Rome on the other hand I have much less to complain about. The real highlights were Anthony's end and Octavian's confrontation with Cleopatra (I particularly enjoyed Maecenas's assessment), though the fight towards the end was a welcome remind of what Pullo was all about. I'd been expecting Vorenus and Pullo to end up on opposite sides at Actium so it was good to see them fighting back to back.

A couple of people have mentioned Heroes to me now; the first I somehow ended up thinking that they were referring to something that had already started, but in fact it starts tomorrow, and looks worth a go.