Finally

"Grey's Anatomy" has overtaken "CSI" in the ratings recently, if only some weeks and only by a slim margin. That's because "CSI" is a bad show and "Grey's Anatomy" is not. Yes, Meredith is getting annoying, I can nap through Burke's dramatic pauses and McDreamy is an asshole, but at least we can say they have personalities and are an attempt at character development. They smile and cry, and sometimes they even raise their voices.

I know that for a reason having to do with the lowest-common denominator, "CSI" has been the most popular show in America. Yet it stuns me that good actors like Gary Sinise agree to be cast in a show that apparently calls for all the lines to be delivered in monotones. Every. Single. One. And I swear that's the only face he's allowed to make on "CSI: NY."

And everybody knows that the people who wear white lab coats and work in the lab are never the same people who carry guns and wear sunglasses in pursuit of killers. If it were "Law and Order" it would be like the cops suddenly morphing into prosecutors in the second half of the show. And what's with the weird colors in Miami? One scene everyone's blue. The next, they are shaded yellow. It's as if the editing and graphics people just wanted to see what they could get away with and gave everyone jaundice for fun. But it's not fun at all. In fact, it's an outrage.

And I totally want the calendar.