Reviews

McGee is working under a car, getting covered in oil after turning a wrench the wrong way.

Kasey getting called when she was a volunteer, she just answered a general phone call Suddenly she's in charge?

Torres an accountant, apparently he is good at it?

Knight changing light bulbs?

Then we have Jimmy, a doctor who should know better, suffering hearing damage that may not correct on its own. It seems stupid to not use hearing protection everyone knows is important and should be required even in a practice range.

As usual, the CIA are incompetent; ditto for FBI when even Parker was a previous agent.

Then, the good guy seems to be the bad guy. Okay, I know this is a frequent situation; but then Webb confiscates Kasey to help him make things right.

Turns out it's all a big frame up!

Oh how we need Gibbs back! He seemed to always keep things on an even keel..

By now we all know the end is near for the re-pop of the Magnum franchise. Many viewers, my wife and I included, started with the original format, similar to this except with a male Higgins. For all we know, the same guy plays Robin.

When I first heard from a friend about the new version, we were already nearly finished with season one. I told him it was ludicrous to have a woman playing Higgins. Can't be, I told him; some things are sacred and don't mess with my past. Well, I asked my wife if she would like to watch the show and she, while having the same resistance as I did, said maybe we should give it a try.

So, I added the series to our TiVo OTA DVR and started recording with season two. Well, it wasn't bad. Not spectacular, except for the scenery (sometimes in the flesh), but it was entertaining. We missed season one, but when reruns were available, we recorded and viewed them to catch up.

Tonight we had an episode with a young Amish fellow who is missing his sister. The plot is not new; it's been done before, and our recently recovered helicopter pilot, TC needs a date to the ball, with ever helpful barkeep Rick offering to help fix the problem.

The kid and his sister are reunited, the Marines go to the ball, with Rick reunited with his wife and TC gets the hot chick surfer. All in all, some fine entertainment. Only a few episodes left of season five and it will be the end of the new Magnum... or will it?

When this show first appeared last fall, I had hopes. Coming from a family of fire fighters; my father in law was fire chief for a nearby community for several years, and one of my sons-in-law is a Battalion Chief for another community nearby, not to mention he is the Captain for fire control at a local refinery.

Not every time, but frequently I see glaring errors during the show. On this episode, we have a car setting fire to the brush, likely because of a hot catalytic converter. Pretty easy to arrest; but no, we need to bs with all kinds of social issues before we grab a fire extinguisher and stop the inferno.

So, it escalates and now we have some dumbbell protester chained to a tree! It's pretty obvious to the viewer extracting this woman from her trap requires only a few steps with a bolt cutter; but no, we need to delay this until we have cinders barreling down from the sky!

Who writes this drivel?

I understand the frustration with not seeing the "regular" characters in every scene, or any scene for that matter, of the episode. My wife and I have been loyal followers of every NCIS show included in the franchise since day one. That being said, we also recognize things change over time. Gibbs is gone, Ziva is gone (maybe?), Abby is gone, and for this series Hetty is gone (again maybe?).

This particular episode was okay even without the key characters. After all, we had Deeks' (Eric Christian Olson) real brother David Paul Olson (Tom Olson), who in real life is married to Daniela Ruah (Kensi Blye). Confused yet?

In addition we saw (again) Bill Goldberg (Lance Hamilton) helping out the crew capture the bad guys. Do I miss the key players? Of course, but I also understand in some cases variety is helpful.

Now that I have that behind me, how do we get Hetty and Gibbs back?

Unfortunately, this episode screams for better sound editing. The scenes in the mountains with the helicopter and Paul Drake are virtually unintelligible. Not sure what the production crew was thinking when they put two characters in the cockpit of a helicopter and have them conversing on a variety of subjects while the sounds of the helicopter are screaming in the background and foreground! Any comprehension of their dialog is completely lost and without a script in hand, viewers have absolutely zero idea of what they were saying!

To make things worse, background music was added only to make things worse!

Then, the characters land and get out of the copter all the while the racket continues.

There will be a reveal here, so if you didn't watch the episode, better stop now.

That being said, it starts with Sam and Dad. There seems to be just a tiny bit of trust lacking, but there will be more on it at the end of the episode. As a Dad and a Son, it brought a smile and a little chuckle to me.

Back to the primary episode, we are provided some evidence Hetti is in trouble in Syria. Well, it might be more than trouble and we will find the truth later. After a fair amount of search and a bit of humor we find the bad guy and of course, he gives up readily. Body count is minimal thanks to a clean shot provided by trustworthy sniper Kensi.

At the ending McRaney offers Callen a scotch, which is not s gracefully declined. Thankfully the scotch is not wasted c/o the Admiral.

An above average episode and I can't wait for next week.

Glad to get this out of the way! So, we are at the turn of a new NCIS, and everyone should be excited, correct? Mark Harmon will certainly be missed, much like when we lost other primary characters. I won't list them here, because if you are long term fans like my wife and me, you know who they are.

Today, we are hunting for Agent Parker, who left under suspicious circumstances at the end of season 19. A cliffhanger, not as powerful as when who shot JR, but it is what it is. What disturbs us is why did we need to import a couple key players from the new NCIS Hawaii? Unless, this new series is on thin ice?

Stay tuned folks, there is still more to come from the old standby NCIS. Just don't hold your breath for Gibbs.

But amazing it was so easy to break into Hoover Dam. I have been there and on pretty much any given day, especially a bright sunny afternoon, there are hundreds of visitors, not to mention dozens of support personnel. Of course, this is just fantasy, isn't it?

Let's see, Nolan's step brother appears out of nowhere, and I mean nowhere! Then we have a doppelgänger for Bradford which is unusual in any situation; and low and behold, another twin shows up for Chen!

So by any chance was Stephen King involved in the writing... or maybe Rod Serling?

Anyway, it was an entertaining episode for a change. My wife and I enjoyed it, we hope you did too.