Recently Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed the final episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation called Grave Danger. The episode was superb, and very much away from the styles we’ve come to associate with him as a writer\director.
It was slow, suspenseful and very dramatic. You could feel the story being held back and reigned in at every step, and it made for some truly edge of your seat television. There was only one scene where he began to indulge himself, and to be honest it was well placed and did not interrupt the flow, it made it more exciting.
Not only was his directing spot on, but he pulled some superb performances out of the cast, in particular George Eads as Nick, the man who the episode piles on. An excellent show with an amazing series climax. Yet it’s not ending there, not according to CSI Files:
When CSI: Crime Scene Investigation returns from its summer break in late September, the CSIs will work on two challenging cases involving an explosion in a trailer park and a beautiful girl who is found dead on the street…
…Where is Gil Grissom in all this?…Grissom has Archie analyze the tape that Walter Gordon left with Nick in his coffin, and they make the surprising discovery that Walter wasn’t alone when he recorded the tape. Grissom asks Archie to keep this under the hood for now, but undoubtedly the investigation will continue for several episodes to come.
So the Tarantino storyline is to carry on throughout the series with the surprise news that there was another person involved in the killing. Okay, it’s early script drafts and rumour, but if anyone who saw it would testify, it’s going to be a good plot to follow.
Not only that, but recent news suggests that Tarantino might turn more to TV. His material is getting longer (like my posts) as in Kill Bill, and it’s more suited to TV. It is said he liked the idea of making a series more than being restricted to the shortened time of a movie. Tarantino to TV? A good idea?
