@ncisverseupdate - 8 years ago today, October 19th 2015, NCIS: LA episode 7x05, titled "Blame it on Rio", aired! The episode guest starred Michael Weatherly as NCIS Agent Tony DiNozzo, who seeks help from the LA team in finding an escaped prisoner! #NCISLA
this is one of the comfort series that I watch and that feels like i’m a part of the family. the first time i watched it I was a little girl, recently I wanted to watch it again because I wanted to understand better the events and connect the dots. so here’s the review!
possible spoilers of NCIS: Los Angeles
the plot is one of my favorite, all the investigations are solved by a two persons-team formed by Special Agent G. Callen and Special Agent Sam Hanna, an ex navy-seal. The other team is formed, for the first season, by Special Agent Kensi Blye and Dominic Vail, a young operative agent who is killed in action during the first season, leaving Kensi Blye without a teammate and full of feelings of guilt. the spot is taken, in season 2, by Detective Marty Deeks, who make a liaison between LAPD and NCIS. He holds this position until departmental reforms in season 12 end up terminating it, after which he completes FLETC training and officially joins NCIS as an Investigator. Henrietta Lange is the leader of this office. In OSP, the team is completed by Operational Psychologist Nate Getz, and Technical Operator Eric Beale. Nate is assigned, after season 1, to different operations by Hetty, and returns only for occasional guest appearances. During the second season, Intelligent Analyst Nelly Jones joins the team, and forms an amazing team with Eric, until eventually the two of them become closer. during the remaining seasons a lot of people appears in the series, like Assistant Director Owen Granger, assigned to the team as oversight whit Hetty, who dies in season 8 after discovering he was ill with cancer (it coincide with real-life battle of the actor, Miguel Ferrer, who was ill with cancer and died). In season 9 Hetty goes to Vietnam on a personal mission, and her place is taken by Executive Assistant Director Pacific Shay Mosley, who is basically in search for revenge and almost get the entire team killed during a non-authorized operation. Later she sends the team and her trusted assistant, Special Agent Harley Hidoko, to Mexico, to rescue her son from her criminal ex-husband. the operation ends well, but her assistant remains killed during the op. The OSP is put under investigation and, at the beginning of the tenth season, Shay Mosley resigns. During season 11/12 Nell and Eric depart for the private sector, so the OSP recruited two rookies: Agents Fatima Namazi and Agent Devin Roundtree. Hetty leaves again so Admiral Hollace Killbride is assigned as Director of Special Operations in season 13. The series ends with Callen married to Anna, Kensi married to Deeks and finally pregnant, and Callen and Sam taking a side project mission to find and rescue Hetty, supported by a new team, including old teammates Nelly and Nate.
During the series:
Callen wants to figure out who his family was, because he grew up in foster homes. At some point he finds his father and his half sister, but their relationship is difficult.
Sam has to deal with the death of his wife, killed during a joined operation with CIA, leaving him with two children and a sense of guilt that never goes away.
Kensi and Deeks decide to adopt a girl from Mexico, and later they find out that Kensi is pregnant.
Hetty faces the difficulties of a life spent undercover.
In my opinion this series is one of the most tricky and challenging series i’ve ever watched. you want to watch episode after episode to discover what is going on. i literally devoured it, i liked it a lot. it’s worth the time you spend to watch it.
thank you so much for reading this review, i hope you like it and i hope you liked this series as i did!
it doesn’t matter that hetty took callen out of the program or that she eventually felt guilty for what she subjected him to as a child and you know why? because she literally handed a child over to a sadistic, psychopath who tortured and emotionally, psychologically and physically abused callen. her actions left callen with scars that took him decades to recover from. she cared more about her vision for callen and his potential as an operative than she cared about his life and wellbeing and was responsible for destroying his chance at a normal life and even as an adult, she is still manipulating him. she’s still playing all sorts of games with him. still trying to mould him into who she wants him to be rather than who he actually is. her horrific treatment of callen never stopped, it just took a different form which involved hetty continuing to control callen’s agency instead of letting him live his life and saying she saw him as a son doesn’t change anything. the fact that she stayed in close contact with the man who tortured and abused callen as a child also says everything about how little she obviously cared about what he did to him. not to mention, she didn’t do anything to get callen the proper help he needed after that nor did she do anything to shut down the program and ensure that no other child would ever go through that.
just finished ncis la and what the fuck was that? There was some cute moments between the characters but it didn’t feel like the end of the series because there was no sense of closure and most of the characters stories didn’t seem complete. and sam and callen going to Morocco at the end made it even worse, especially since there’s no spin off carrying on with that storyline