CSI: Cyber

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Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 9, 2013
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
3.5

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 111 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 111
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 111
  3. Negative: 65 out of 111
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  1. JessicaRobyn
    Apr 15, 2017
    5
    After watching years of various CSI interactions CSI: Cyber seemed to be the logical next step for the franchise. Within the format however, it faced obvious limitations. I think it's because the CSI standard treatment has run its course. Although the plots were generally workable, the writing didn't give the actors much to work with. Overall, it was still watchable and at times enjoyable,After watching years of various CSI interactions CSI: Cyber seemed to be the logical next step for the franchise. Within the format however, it faced obvious limitations. I think it's because the CSI standard treatment has run its course. Although the plots were generally workable, the writing didn't give the actors much to work with. Overall, it was still watchable and at times enjoyable, but it never reached the right balance it needed to be good.… Expand
  2. Keydric
    Nov 2, 2015
    1
    This show is maybe fun to watch for people outside the IT world... Maybe
    There are so many things wrong, it's like a writer just started looking up technology terms and randomly tossing them at paper. My only reason for watching the show is to have fun at work in the morning chatting about how bad it was.
  3. dbaptiste
    Oct 28, 2015
    9
    I like the show as IT guy it's very fun to watch.
    The subject and the techniques that they use and sow it's for me very interesting.
    They way you can hack things it's keep me thinking of how to secure things in my network
  4. justmamac
    Oct 11, 2015
    0
    I really enjoyed this show until you put Ted Danson on it, he seems to be the plague to a tv show when he comes on board the shows soon disappear. Dump the BUM!!!
  5. Nellienagle
    Oct 5, 2015
    0
    What happened to the writers from the other CSI shows??? The plot lines are awful and too drawn out and the dialogue is terrible. I was hopeful that Ted Danson could do something to save this stinker but there are not enough redeeming elements. Won't be watching this again. No more CSI's it seems ... except maybe the reruns.
  6. shavenwookie
    Sep 29, 2015
    1
    This is by far the best worst show on television. It is very rare that a show manages to mess everything up acting, writing directing this is the Trolls 2 of television series.
  7. awaba
    Jul 2, 2015
    0
    Arquette can't act, she never could. The show is misleading in it's display and use of 'technology' at best and pure drivel at worst. Don't believe everything you see on TV people.
  8. Desert_Rat
    May 31, 2015
    2
    I liked the original CSI in Vegas and I hope it isn't gone forever. I liked CSI: NY but it's long gone now. I had hopes for this one but I just can't get into it. The characters never seem to gel. They seem like a dysfunctional work group. Arquette's character seems like she's more interested in herself than building her team. She's grouchy but she's no Jethro Gibbs. If I were part ofI liked the original CSI in Vegas and I hope it isn't gone forever. I liked CSI: NY but it's long gone now. I had hopes for this one but I just can't get into it. The characters never seem to gel. They seem like a dysfunctional work group. Arquette's character seems like she's more interested in herself than building her team. She's grouchy but she's no Jethro Gibbs. If I were part of their team I'd be looking for a way to transfer out. Fortunately all I need to do is pick up the remote.… Expand
  9. DBPirate1129
    May 30, 2015
    9
    The show feels similar to most other shows with CSI or CIS in the title but it also stands out in a way due to its focus on technological crimes. The episodes always keep me engaged. I haven't seen all of the episodes in Cyber's first season but I do like how they all seem like their own adventure so I never feel like I'm missing out. Another highlight is the characters: they all feelThe show feels similar to most other shows with CSI or CIS in the title but it also stands out in a way due to its focus on technological crimes. The episodes always keep me engaged. I haven't seen all of the episodes in Cyber's first season but I do like how they all seem like their own adventure so I never feel like I'm missing out. Another highlight is the characters: they all feel unique and all get their own time to shine. Is CSI Cyber for everyone? No. Is it good to the right people? Yes.… Expand
  10. LucilleS
    May 27, 2015
    0
    Terrible, Terrible. Hope it is canceled next season. Give us something worth watching. The scripts, acting, and total show is one of the worst. In hopes that the program would get better I have tried to watch it but it has not improved at all. There has to be better programs available to replace this loser.
  11. vjjr
    May 24, 2015
    3
    Probably the runt of the litter. This program has little of the "charms" of a procedural and all of its faults. The dialogue is chock full of meaningless acronyms that are at times confounding. Patricia Arquette does her best to renounce her recent Oscar by seeming to be lost in the wrong "medium"--the acting is banal at best. Oh well, this might save us from CSI Podunk!
  12. mma4ym
    May 22, 2015
    7
    I like this show. It helps people understand what can be done over the web. I believe it can in an entertaining way help people see the dangers of sharing too much information. The problem with the show is the name. It really is not a CSI show. Should probably be called FBI Cyber.
  13. boneshaker34
    May 14, 2015
    5
    How can a crime be committed in another state & CSI Cyber team arrives on the seen at the same time as the local authorities and first responders? Then they discover criminal activity in another state, still have time to get to the home base in DC and they arrive in the next state to make the arrest again before local authorities... Doesn't this well funded agency have lab techs? Why areHow can a crime be committed in another state & CSI Cyber team arrives on the seen at the same time as the local authorities and first responders? Then they discover criminal activity in another state, still have time to get to the home base in DC and they arrive in the next state to make the arrest again before local authorities... Doesn't this well funded agency have lab techs? Why are they always doing their own lab work including fingerprinting. How do all their arch enemies live in DC. Why is it suppose to be so amazing when The CSI leads asks a question, the person wipes both hands across their face and the camera zooms in as if she is seeing some amazing clue that no one else can see. Why does their equipment get hacked or corrupted so easily? When do they sleep, because they work night and day? Why is it that every time one of them needs help from the team, they go off the grid but supposedly leave some minuscule clue that for some reason people that have only known them a short while are able to figure out. This could be a good show, just strip away some of the corny cyber explanations and definitions, more crime less soap opera and less personal attachments to the crimes especially the ones where one of them has a best friend or relative that is wrongly accused.… Expand
  14. superdave61
    May 13, 2015
    1
    I can't believe the writers are so lame, to think that public Joe is so stupid, to fall for such drivel.
    Yes it's true a good hacker can cause alot of mayhem, but honestly, the melodrama that follows the story, is right up there with a 70's soap opera.
    I've watched this show from the beginning, waiting for something interesting, something I can sink my teeth into, but each episode leaves    I can't believe the writers are so lame, to think that public Joe is so stupid, to fall for such drivel.
    Yes it's true a good hacker can cause alot of mayhem, but honestly, the melodrama that follows the story, is right up there with a 70's soap opera.
    I've watched this show from the beginning, waiting for something interesting, something I can sink my teeth into, but each episode leaves me more disappointed, then the last.
    Good concept, terrible writing.    … Expand
  15. JCat
    May 13, 2015
    0
    I like Patrica Arquette, but this is beyond bad. It uses all types of stereotype, been there/done that characters and one liners that are meant to explain modern tech to an audience which makes it even more unrealistic. Please! Super bad, cringe inducing scripts. If you know even a bit about technology, you'll throw up in your mouth. Oh, and tonight's episode (May 12th 2015), was aboutI like Patrica Arquette, but this is beyond bad. It uses all types of stereotype, been there/done that characters and one liners that are meant to explain modern tech to an audience which makes it even more unrealistic. Please! Super bad, cringe inducing scripts. If you know even a bit about technology, you'll throw up in your mouth. Oh, and tonight's episode (May 12th 2015), was about gamers, By the end of show, they solved their crime and with a sigh of relief, said something to the effect of video games are best left to the kids. What is this 1982? Talk about writers being clueless d_ouches.… Expand
  16. Dstotler
    May 11, 2015
    10
    This show is the best. Its keeps older people advised to what criminals can do to the world. Most of the complaints seem to be from very uneducated. Even speaking of having female boss and over weight hacker. And you use let these kind of people help make decisions in Hollywood. Our favorites are criminal minds, csi cyber and all other dramas. Just tell the others to change the channel andThis show is the best. Its keeps older people advised to what criminals can do to the world. Most of the complaints seem to be from very uneducated. Even speaking of having female boss and over weight hacker. And you use let these kind of people help make decisions in Hollywood. Our favorites are criminal minds, csi cyber and all other dramas. Just tell the others to change the channel and watch what they
    want to watch and keep your fingers off ours. There are more than kids out there that watch TV.
    The young ones want to just type something to you because someone else did. Older people don't usually respond to this kind of web sites for their opinion to be put out there.    … Expand
  17. bobcratchett
    Apr 22, 2015
    0
    wooden characters, lame computer knowledge, erratic plot continuity = crappy attempt at a subject they know little about. Patricia Arquette was terrible in The Medium and she doesn't' t disappoint an anticipated terrible characterization again.
  18. aislemaiden
    Apr 18, 2015
    1
    I don't like Patricia Arquette in this role. She's monotone, unemotional and detached. The show needs a few more engaged feature characters and better writers. The scripts are really poor. Makes you wonder why CSI: NY was canceled.
  19. jcreimer
    Apr 11, 2015
    4
    My 4 rating for this show is sort of a "benefit of a doubt" sort of thing. I wanted to like this show, since I enjoyed the other CSI shows. However, the two lead characters, Patricia Arquette and James VdB, do nothing for me and there doesn't seem to be any real chemistry between the team members as a group. Other series have made character changes during the formative seasons to refineMy 4 rating for this show is sort of a "benefit of a doubt" sort of thing. I wanted to like this show, since I enjoyed the other CSI shows. However, the two lead characters, Patricia Arquette and James VdB, do nothing for me and there doesn't seem to be any real chemistry between the team members as a group. Other series have made character changes during the formative seasons to refine the team when necessary. Hopefully, this series will do so also if it happens to make it to a second season. I would suggest a new female lead and Eddie Cahill in lieu of James VdB for openers. In the two-entry contest of new action/thrillers of this season, CSI: Cyber finishes a slow third behind NCIS: New Orleans.… Expand
  20. Darkling
    Apr 8, 2015
    5
    It's like a CSI comedy series the laughable dialogues and half truths make it entertaining to watch.
    The Word Cyber already shows that it is was written and/or greenlighted by people that have no clue about the Web 3.0
  21. riain
    Apr 8, 2015
    0
    Had high hopes.

    For a show with some pretty good actors it falls pretty much flat on it's face stereotypes everywhere ahoy!, completely illogical to the point you feel dumber for watching, irritating zooming, a show with My name is Avery Ryan and here some stuff that happen which you heard last week and the week before and the week before blah now watch the set up for the episode    Had high hopes.

    For a show with some pretty good actors it falls pretty much flat on it's face stereotypes everywhere ahoy!, completely illogical to the point you feel dumber for watching, irritating zooming, a show with My name is Avery Ryan and here some stuff that happen which you heard last week and the week before and the week before blah now watch the set up for the episode followed by another intro to the CSI show with whole cast (I know their trying to sell Patricia Arquette who is great but it got old after the second time), a main character who can apparently hack a car with an app and then needs the term trojan horse explained (by of course the text book fat computer guy using a sandwich) to her seriously either she is tech savvy or she isn't can't have it both ways, a black hat hacker who is black just so you won't forget it..... I could go on and on really and picking apart what's aired so but it's just not worth and I would easily run out of space which is sad as I was big into CSI.

    I might watch two more if that but probably won't last considering I'm big into computing and this show just makes my head hurt as if the writers just did a quick internet search as research and boom... waffles.    … Expand
  22. Phoenixxl
    Apr 7, 2015
    4
    Problem is , nobody in Hollywood knows which end of a ssh client is the sharp end.
    In 1980's Whiz Kids computers could be portrayed as translating hieroglyphics using a joystick and a curling iron. In the nineties security systems got cracked by the main character typing very fast.
    This is 2015 , we know how **** works, Hollywood, you need to up your game. 8 for wanting to make    Problem is , nobody in Hollywood knows which end of a ssh client is the sharp end.
    In 1980's Whiz Kids computers could be portrayed as translating hieroglyphics using a joystick and a curling iron. In the nineties security systems got cracked by the main character typing very fast.
    This is 2015 , we know how **** works, Hollywood, you need to up your game.

    8 for wanting to make something computercentric 0 for execution makes a 4/10.    … Expand
  23. bknabe
    Apr 5, 2015
    2
    I've watched every episode so far and intend to watch until it is cancelled - not because it is good, but because it is so bad. The writing takes the worst elements of crime drama and mixes it with bad 'cyber' cliches. The acting is so far below what even the obscure members of the cast are capable of it's sad. Unless they're being directed to act that way, in which case it's disgusting.I've watched every episode so far and intend to watch until it is cancelled - not because it is good, but because it is so bad. The writing takes the worst elements of crime drama and mixes it with bad 'cyber' cliches. The acting is so far below what even the obscure members of the cast are capable of it's sad. Unless they're being directed to act that way, in which case it's disgusting. While some of the characters seem to be getting better, you still have the writing, which is bad. I think Arquette's character is supposed to come off as cool and logical, but she actually comes across as cold and emotionless. Maybe even a little inhuman.

    The shows one virtue is that is so ripe for parody, lampoon, and the MST3K treatment.    … Expand
  24. racecarsue
    Apr 4, 2015
    3
    Not thrilled. I just haven't been able to get into it yet. I love Patricia Arquette, watched Medium all the time. The characters are evolving, the plots aren't for me yet.
  25. olguitapv
    Mar 27, 2015
    7
    I like this show because we can see how technology can be either important and dangerous! Patricia Arquette and some others are working very good. Others are working very bad. Besides, the big problem in this series is the dialogues. They are poor. I wish to see to Patricia's work in other series as "Medium"
  26. GoodTimes
    Mar 26, 2015
    1
    Watched second show and then deleted the first one that was on DVR; then deleted DVR future recordings. Frankly the plot and program are totally BORING! Arquette and cast just don't cut it and instead of team seem like dispirate entities. I would have given it a big ZERO but chose a rating of ONE simply because of the main star. I predict that this show will disappear after initial showsWatched second show and then deleted the first one that was on DVR; then deleted DVR future recordings. Frankly the plot and program are totally BORING! Arquette and cast just don't cut it and instead of team seem like dispirate entities. I would have given it a big ZERO but chose a rating of ONE simply because of the main star. I predict that this show will disappear after initial shows have been run.… Expand
  27. Nyxious
    Mar 25, 2015
    10
    Episode 1 kinda sucked, but I swear it is getting better every episode. I wish Metacritic wouldn't let people rate a whole season based on a single episode.
  28. Cheflyn717
    Mar 25, 2015
    2
    I like most of the CSI shows and I really was excited for this one too, unfortunately I'm not impressed. Bad acting, terrible dialogue and the casting of this team is off. Not worth watching!
  29. TNBIKETOM
    Mar 25, 2015
    0
    I have worked in IT for 40 years and have a special interest in IT security. Being an avid fan for the NCSI series, I had high hopes for CSI-Cyber, but no matter how hard I try, I can't get into this program. The background music is so loud it becomes painful if I try to understand the shallow and disconnected dialogue. For someone involved in cyber security, the plots in these show makeI have worked in IT for 40 years and have a special interest in IT security. Being an avid fan for the NCSI series, I had high hopes for CSI-Cyber, but no matter how hard I try, I can't get into this program. The background music is so loud it becomes painful if I try to understand the shallow and disconnected dialogue. For someone involved in cyber security, the plots in these show make no sense. The producers in my favorite NCSI have done an exceptional job in character development. I don't expected to be able to tolerate this program long enough to warm up to the wooden characters in CSI-Cyber. I am so disappointed in what I had hoped would have been a very insightful look and a major problem for anyone who works with the Internet.… Expand
  30. Qldgamer
    Mar 21, 2015
    2
    This sow is a bland mixture of the same thing we have seen many times before, but done worse. The stereo-types like the overweight computer guy, and the boss with a dark background.

    The cyber seems to be just a weak plot point to have a car chase or a gun fight. No real hacking skills used. Sure they have some cyber ideas but on the whole not well used. This show has been made before    This sow is a bland mixture of the same thing we have seen many times before, but done worse. The stereo-types like the overweight computer guy, and the boss with a dark background.

    The cyber seems to be just a weak plot point to have a car chase or a gun fight. No real hacking skills used. Sure they have some cyber ideas but on the whole not well used.

    This show has been made before and this is a bad version of those shows.    … Expand
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Metascore
45

Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 23
  3. Negative: 6 out of 23
  1. Newark Star-Ledger
    Reviewed by: Vicki Hyman
    Mar 4, 2015
    58
    CSI: Cyber is perfectly serviceable television, with nothing distracting--David Caruso dramatically interrupting his own cheesy ripostes to don his sunglasses, say--to take you out of the story, but not a whole lot to keep you breathless for another.
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  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Margaret Lyons
    Mar 4, 2015
    20
    While CSI: Cyber is functional, it's also a useless chore. I have no idea what you could get out of CSI: Cyber that you couldn't get out of Scorpion.
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  3. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Gail Pennington
    Mar 4, 2015
    37
    The dialogue Arquette is forced to deliver is the worst thing.
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