We’re wrapping up 2024’s Three Of These with the last Quentin Tarantino on TV project chronologically: CSI‘s fifth-season finale, “Grave Danger Vols. I and II,” or “the one where Nick gets buried alive.” We talked about all the signature QT elements here, from obscure pop B-sides to wish-fulfillment set pieces to those hallmark ’70s-culture conversations; we also wondered whether Sarah’s initial instinct — to submit the two-parter to the EHG Canon — was correct, and whether this marriage of middlebrow procedural and indie auteur is meant to last. Grab a cassette recorder and listen in, Panchos!

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Aug 13, 2024 Quentin Tarantino Buries The Lead Directing C.S.I.
Quentin Tarantino directed the fifth-season finale of the CBS juggernaut. We’re talking about all the ways you can tell!