The season premiere of Navy:NCIS is on tonight. For my money it is the best of the crime scene investigation/ missing persons/legal shows. It's even better than Without a Trace which is heads and shoulders above any of the three CSI shows (the New York series utterly failed to impress me last week).
What's so great about NCIS? The cast and the writing. CSI's stories might be great but the dialogue is so bad and so cheesy (especially for the lead characters) it's ridiculous. NCIS takes itself slightly less seriously and in doing so has a whole lot more fun. It's not as dark as CSI can be but it still has its serious moments. On top of that the mix of characters is great. Mark Hammon as Gibbs is everything that William L Peterson and David Caruso aren't as Gil Grissom and Horatio Caine. He's witty, sarcastic and strict without being cheesy or an ass. As Gibbs' underlings the characters of Todd and DiNozzo are fantastic and the interplay between them and Gibbs blows away anything on any CSI series. Throw in Pauley Perrette as a goth lab tech and David McCallum as the oddball bowtie-wearing Scottish ME, Dr. 'Ducky' Mallard and you have an incredible ensemble cast.
Check it out tonight on CBS. It just means you'll have to tape Degrassi: The Next Generation.
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