My apologies, this is not an entry on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. I haven’t read the book, a classic like this masterpiece require too much mental preparation. At the rate of mental and physical exhaustion I am in with graduate school and motherhood and wife duties, I’m not yet ready to tackle Dostoyevsky’s work head on.
Instead, I’m going to talk about the version of crime and punishment that I have been obssessed with since December 2015, shortly after I pressed the submit button for my last final exam at school. As you may have remembered, I dabbled at House, MD in between writing term papers and breastfeeding Jeff Junior last year. For my next series, I chose… tadaaaa! CSI: New York!
Well let’s backtrack a little bit. I did watch one season of Once Upon A Time, that series which lumped together all fairytale creatures in a town called Storybrooke until such time when Snow White and Prince Charming’s daughter named Emma Swan broke the spell after 28 years. It was fun but by the beginning of Season 2, my brain got bored. I looked for something that combined cerebral work and entertainment. I found it in this CSI installment with Gary Sinise acting as Detective Mac Taylor.
His army of detectives at the New York Crime Lab move from one scene, one case, one victim to the next putting together puzzling pieces of evidence, determining the cause of death, searching for motives, and ultimately, solving crimes. All these they do while tackling their life stories in between.
I am currently in Season 8 out of nine seasons and already I’m telling myself: “Oh Cris, about 30 more episodes to go. What’s going to be your life after New York?”
I heard myself replied: “I’m moving to Miami.”
No mention of gory and explicit details here as I have boldly called this blog as the bulletin board of this family’s adventures but suffice it is to say that watching how crimes are carried out and (virtually) witnessing how the corresponding punishments are read/executed made me think twice about harming the bad and annoying people I know. Haha! Okay kids, erase that. Mama is good. I just have my moments.
This show presented stories and cases of every possible nature that when my husband asked what’s my favorite episode, I can’t pick one. My favorite character, Sid Hammerback (played by actor Robert Joy) is pure genius as he works as the Chief Medical Examiner. I would love to describe here what he does but, again, I don’t want to write gory details here. A recent episode showed him coming up with a prototype pillow called Hammerback Sleeper which Detective Mac Taylor tested and gave positive feedback about its ability to lull him to deep sleep.
Themes of love, family, love and dedication for work are dealt with in this series touching the heart and the emotional/affective side as well.
I am a CSI fan.
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T30WC or The 30-minute Writing Challenge is a writing exercise born out of this blogger’s need to maintain a habit of writing. Subjects of each writing challenge is just about anything but should ONLY be written within 30 minutes.
