Best 5 minutes of TV I've seen in a long time

[JLucPicard]

WARNING: There may be spoilers ahead!


Anyone who has watched the last 5 or so minutes of CSI:NY this past Wednesday - an episode titled "Yahrzeit" - should know what I'm talking about. I was quite moved. Well written, well acted.

Thank you, CSI:NY producers!

I suppose it doesn't hurt that my darling Irish mother passed on the crying gene to me. ;)

[dylking]

I agree. That was a very satisfying ending.

[doom1701]

It was touching...but the rest of the episode wrecked it for me. Just to be safe:


The video "interviews" were terribly jarring. How did pictures of that quality make it out of Nazi Germany? And why on earth did the organization interview so many people and take the time and expense to edit them so professionally? I can understand the cross referencing of any names mentioned, as this is some of the only historical information we have of the Holocaust--but every time we were watching an "interview" and a pristine B&W picture faded in and swept across the screen, I felt like I do when laser printers sound like a dot matrix.

And, let's be honest--anyone that doesn't know the "Big Name Guest Star is *ALWAYS* the bad guy" rule shouldn't be watching TV.

But, yeah, I misted a little with the Yahrzeit at the end. I don't watch the show much...was the "history" of Mac's dad touched on elsewhere in the series?

[Alfer]

I don't keep up too much with this CSI version, but a guy I graduated with in high school is a writer/exec producer for CSI: NY...here's his Facebook page if anyone wants to follow what he's doing.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Trey-Callaway/56753950381?ref=nf

[JLucPicard]

But, yeah, I misted a little with the Yahrzeit at the end. I don't watch the show much...was the "history" of Mac's dad touched on elsewhere in the series?
The only recollection I have of a mention of Mac's dad was earlier in this episode. He mentioned to one of his co-workers (the dark-haired cop?*) that his dad was one of the liberators in 1945. Other than that, I don't recall his dad ever being mentioned.



*- Just went back and looked. About the 35 minute mark, Mac told the guy from the Foundation for Rememberance that his father had been one of the troops at Buchenwald when the camp was liberated in '45.

[Graymalkin]

Actually, the Germans had very good photography back then, and some of their still photos probably did have that level of resolution. And they documented and catalogued everything like proper little bureaucrats.