Love Quote by James Denton

A little confession disguised as a shrug: James Denton’s mini-monologue is less about David Caruso than about the social tax we attach to liking the “wrong” thing. “I know it’s not cool” is doing the heavy lifting here, telegraphing an awareness of the taste police and inviting the audience to join him in a low-stakes rebellion. The point isn’t that CSI: Miami is secretly prestige television; it’s that Denton is refusing the performance of prestige.

As an actor, he’s also signaling something professional and surprisingly generous. Calling Caruso “interesting” isn’t stan culture hype; it’s craft respect. Caruso’s CSI: Miami persona - stylized pauses, blunt delivery, the meme-ready swagger - has always split viewers between reverence and ridicule. Denton leans into that ambiguity: interesting because it’s exaggerated, because it’s specific, because it’s a choice. That’s actor-to-actor code for “he commits.”

There’s a broader cultural moment tucked inside the line, too. Early-2000s network procedurals were mass entertainment with a sheen of disposable cool, and Caruso became an avatar for the era’s glossy, quotable TV masculinity. Denton’s admission reads like a corrective to the idea that only “serious” viewing counts as legitimate. He’s modeling an unpretentious kind of fandom: liking what you like, even if it lives in the clearance aisle of cultural status.

The charm is that he doesn’t over-argue it. He just owns it.