I like to watch crime shows on tv, especially Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Goren and Eames are my favs – that show is so interestingly written and the puzzles are good and the acting is great and oh, what a treat.

One of the other shows we watch now and then is CSI: Miami. It’s enjoyable, but on such a different level. David Caruso is so delightfully camp. Oh, the meaningful looks – oh, the arched eyebrows. He’s the new William Shatner!

In fact, that whole show is just a revamping of Star Trek, I think. The blond lady, the one who is very analytical and not emotional – Spock. Khandi Alexander, the lead examiner, is Scotty. And then there’s an assortment of faithful and ethnically interesting sidekicks.

But Caruso is just a hoot – the overacting, the too-serious tone, the bad-guy threats – boldly going where no coroner has gone before.