EW rates the opening credits to TV shows
CSI: NY
(CBS, Wednesdays, 10 p.m.)
Ooh, look, New York's gritty! Hey, wow, the sky's so gloomy! And here's
a mystery for you, Sinise: Why are numbers flashing across the screen
for no reason? Only the Who's ''Baba O'Riley'' lightens the preposterously
glum mood.
C+
LAX
(NBC, Wednesday, 8 p.m.)
Real airports aren't exactly fun nowadays, but this sun-splashed
opener—set to ELO's prog-rock classic ''Mr. Blue Sky''—and Heather
Locklear's smiling face remove all our fears of air marshals and terror
alerts.
B+
Desperate Housewives
(ABC, Sundays, 9 p.m.)
A peppy and stylish whoosh through history's domestic dregs,
inter-twined with a fantastic 3-D style reminiscent of pop-up
storybooks. Our fave: the poor Elizabethan forced to sweep up her sloppy
hubby's banana peel.
A
Veronica Mars
(UPN, Tuesdays, 9 p.m.)
Is she a stuck-up popular girl or a teen muckraker? Mars' bland credits
(saved only by the Dandy Warhols' fab ''We Used to Be Friends'') offer few
clues. And the notebook-paper gimmick looks cheap. C-
