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NCIS

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:13:28 +0000

Since NCIS is spinning off a new series, NCIS-Los Angeles, I took advantage of the marathon that USA ran today of the original NCIS series. I had given up on them a couple of years ago, but now that I’m back in touch with them again, maybe I’ll see if I can’t add both of them to my list of must-see shows this fall! Too bad Sasha Alexander isn’t on anymore, I really liked her, but with Ducky and Abby you can’t go wrong.

Tuesday Highlights

webMistress — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:46:36 +0000

With Carly gone I’m firmly backing David Cook to go all the way, but America doesn’t always get it right!

If you’re as ready for Lauren Holly to leave this show as I am, then you will be glad to know that one of the team will be killed off soon. I’m just worried it’ll be Abby or Ducky, my favorites.

Best of SNL: Alec Baldwin – how bad could it be, it’s all Alec on this one! We’ll get to see how he’s aged over the years, but he still looks great to me.

The Riches finale: this show has started to grow on me, as have most of the hits the FX Network keeps coming up with. With The Shield playing out its’ final season this fall, what could they come up with next?

Women’s Murder Club returns to ABC, but for how long? Three episodes to burn now, but pitted against SVU (with Robin Williams guesting this week) what chance do they have to show they should get picked up?

NCIS Finale

webMistress — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:10:24 +0000

This is another show I haven’t seen in a long time. While I’ve been away apparently Tony Dinozzo went and got himself a girlfriend, Jeanne, a doctor at a local hospital. One of her patients is Devon, but I like to call him Colin because that’s who he played on Everwood, back near the beginning of its run. This guy apparently doesn’t know how to play characters that live very long because, while Colin lasted about a season or two before he croaked, Devon didn’t last half an episode.

Anyway, Devon just returned from Carracas and his sister, Bernie, and her friend, Melvin, are coming to visit him in the hospital. Seems Devon got really sick after being hit by a car and Melvin can’t wait to talk to him. While Devon was in Carracas, he apparently picked up a souvenir and was carrying it in his intestines. Bernie and Melvin wait while Devon dies, and then they head for the morgue, but before they can do “surgery” on poor Devon, to get out the plastic-encased heroin, Dinozzo and his girlfriend stop them.

After a struggle with Dinozzo where Tony gets knocked out, Melvin allows the doctor to bring Tony around before she does the surgery. Once she pulls the bag from Devon’s belly, she quickly opens it with her scalpel, allowing the powder inside to blow through the room, most of it landing on and inside Devon.

While Melvin, Jeanne, and DiNozzo all fight over the gun, Bernie is heard in the background. They all turn around and see her, nose-deep into her brother’s innards, taking deep inhalations of the glorious powder that she has needed so badly. Dinozzo gets control of the gun and the scene ends.

I was glad this sub-plot kept me watching, because the one about the Director, played by Jim Carrey’s ex Lauren Holly, is ho-hum since I don’t care if she lives or dies, and Pauley Perrette and David McCallum, my two favorites on this show, were just wasted in this episode.

Don’t know if it’s enough to bring me back next season, but it looks like DiNozzo’s girlfriend has a bad guy for a dad, played by Armand Assante, and that could be good for a few episodes anyway.