I'm never a fan of these "hunt the terrorist" episodes as NCIS completely changes for, in this case, 4 episodes. The trademark humour is suddenly absent and all we get are bad guy caricatures. The terrorist kids plot was just overly melodramatic and much of it I found unbelievable. At one point in one of the episodes Vance says they have recruited children in every branch of government, or something to that effect. What is this ? Children of the Corn ?! Also now we're torturing suspects ? Apart from dodgy plot elements and writing there's still some good performances from the cast but its inconsistent. Look, I know the writers have to make an effort to keep viewers and get into that next season but this all lacks the usual sophistication of the series. I don't know maybe that's the point to bring in an emotive zero sum game but judging by the quality of the writing in other episodes they can do better than this.
Review of Troll
