The 1st season was cohesive, had a great cast and kept the twists and turns that kept us watching for 15 years. The 2nd season starts to fall down, and after a hellaciously long wait the 3rd season just SUCKS!
This show treats Marg Helgenberger like she's an old lady, and treats the Willows character like she's stupid! Willows was only gone for 6 years. That character is smarter than all the new characters put together, and yet the entire cast of new characters treats Willows like she's only been a CSI for a year! The new cast has no charisma, and the stories are flat. There's no leadership, no strength and the stories are remakes of the original, and not done very well at all. Science has come a long way, and if, in reality, CSI labs were attacked as much as this show attacks this lab, no one would work there. That was the downfall of all the CSI's, especially Miami - the Constant attack on the lab by the Bureaucrats.
There's no mystery either. All of the CSIs from 2000 - 2015 had one case based on a real life case and one made up case. Now it's just bad writers that smoke too much dope to think through what they are writing. I would not be surprised if this is the last season because the only way to save this show is to fire everybody except Marg and bring on people over 30 that might actually know how to act, and know what kind of characters they are playing. There's no fundamental understanding of scientific storytelling. I'd rather watch reruns of Quincy ME where the science is 40 years old than this crap, and Dr G is way more engaging than this drivel. It's sad, disappointing and annoying that in this day and age we no longer have ground breaking shows that challenge our imaginations - isn't that what entertainment is supposed to be for, especially this genre?