The NCIS writing team is just absolutely brilliant. After 12 seasons and so many episodes it really makes you wonder if they are always going to be able to come up with something new and of really high quality. I think this episode really explored some avenues we wouldn't usually associate with NCIS. The reference to Star Trek was brilliant. Just thinking of a no win situation really makes a viewer critically think. Putting McGee in Gibbs place was brilliant. Bringing in the Coast Guard Investigative Services was brilliant. Every time I think NCIS is getting repetitive, expected, in no way intending mundane by the way, the writers and creative team throws a change up such as this episode which totally maintains respect of the shows ability to always stay high concept. In this case it was just an episode of being great versus the really good we come to know and expect.
Reviews
6 Reviews
Hope It Continues
22 October 2014
It's hard to say that the Marry Me team has a consistent, spot on, high concept, high quality product with only two episodes aired. However it has been a really long time since a comedy of this quality has come along. As I'm watching, I'm thinking, this is the next iconic representative sitcom of the modern day. I think and hope it has the potential that others will notice and as time passes they rate it right up there with King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond. The creators really have something here. So many people in the writing community have called for the non-cliché' and this show above all else seems to really have payed attention to what not only those in the creative community have pleaded for but also captured and engaged the viewing audience of America. I for one hope the consistency, high concept, originality and just pure funniness are maintained and become a staple for the creative and viewing communities.
Marry Me
(2014–2015)
Already Engaged To The Show
14 October 2014
I'm already hooked. I Can't remember the last time I seen a "pilot" or regular episode opening that funny in a long time. This show is so non-cliché' and refreshing in todays world of television. The writing is brilliantly gravely smooth and the actors deliver quite well. The content, pacing and timing if it remains the same will never be a half hour wasted. Already a big fan and any writer would be so pleased with the opportunity to work on such a refreshing endeavor as this show. I hope others get engaged as viewers and writers get envious. I also hope the show becomes contagious making others seek out the freshness needed in television. Don't let this one go stale.
'The Pendulum Effect" Has Run It's Course?
22 April 2014
This show is a very intense psychological thriller. Red and Tom really keep you guessing. This show is written very well and elaborately with all it's twists and turns. The writers have really taken the predictability factor away from the audience. With all the highlights and good aspects to this wonderfully written show the "Pendulum Effect" of the swing of antagonist and protagonist of the story is getting old. I believe the writers need to pick a track and reveal it all the way before reintroducing "The Pendulum Effect" again. The writers have something good here but I believe if a focus of good or evil is not chosen soon the audience will lose interest. The swing back and forth can in itself get old losing the shows uniqueness. As a whole this show is still very entertaining.
Audience Draw
31 March 2014
Well The plot as always seems to thicken. What a weaved web of deception. Every answer seems to lead to more questions. I never knew or experienced a show more like a game of chess. Is Red the grand deceiver? Is Lizzy just being sucked in by Red? Was Tom the facilitator? What twists and turns will this show take? Is my contemplation just a reflection of what the writers want the audience to perceive? Will I solve the master mystery? I truly never have a experienced a more convoluted plot in all my years of watching television. The writers are superb yet I wonder if I should just take the show at face value as the characters many times must do. Will Red be the hero the good guy or is he truly the most evil one in the history of evil? Perhaps Tom truly is the evil one? Does anybody know want to know or should we just watch? Your guess is as good as mine.
NCIS: New Orleans
(2014–2021)
Bellisario Does it Again. NCIS New Orleans is spectacular.
25 March 2014
Donald P. Bellisario does it again. Beautifully done. NCIS New Orleans makes me want to watch and see what happens next. Nice introduction and expansion of new characters as well as the expansion of existing known characters. As always doesn't disappoint with the history of characters and their development within the NCIS. I think this show displays only the best in screen writing. NCIS New Orleans really expands and broadens character area and ext. screenwriter's aspect. NCIS New Orleans is so worth any high budget external location filming endeavor. Brings us back int. to what we expect and know out of existing locations and characters. NCIS New Orleans also is developing a pretty awesome int. view aspect of a NCIS New Orleans office. While I have no idea of future intent of the producers; I'm hopeful the producers expand this show to an NCIS New Orleans full season. I want to see more.
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