A spin-off of NCIS (2003) about the local field office of NCIS that investigates criminal cases involving military personnel in The Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment and decadence. This colorful city that harbors a dark side is a magnet for service personnel on leave, and when overindulgence is followed by trouble, Special Agent Dwayne Pride's team is at its best.
Creator:
Gary Glasberg
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I get that money runs the world but NCIS:NO... is the one they shouldn't have done.
The NCIS RED attempts was a sign that you couldn't just brand anything with NCIS and it would simply work.
OK so how about New Orleans ? well, i was excited mainly because of Scott Bakula of course, but my oh my, he tries too hard to be NO's Gibbs. He just doesn't make it there and that's a shame because he could (should) not have to be.
See, in NCIS:LA, they knew no one could be a leader as charismatic as Gibbs, they didn't try to make a similar build-up. And the same goes for the series : it's a procedural but for a long time NCIS:LA gave us a plot about G's past mainly. That gave NCIS:LA another dimension, a different flavor.
Now NCIS:NO simply tries too hard, on every aspect, to replicate the original NCIS in a new setting and falls short : the theme song, Bakula that keeps trying to be the most caring federal agent in the world, Lucas Black's stare (seriously, just pay attention to it, it becomes funny) and Zoe McLellan's acting (or direction ?), the office just doesn't make you want to believe it could be a federal agency one.
To be fair to McLellan; she doesn't have what Cote de Pable or Sasha Alexander used to bring to the original series or even Daniela Ruah (Kensi) and Renée Felice Smith (Nell) bring NCIS:LA.
On another aspect, the jokes are almost unbearable, as if their was a sign "please laugh now" while the punch lines are delivered. (And you see them coming from 3 miles away too.)
The only thing going though my mind after watching 5 minutes of the show's second episode is that the producers want you to like it more than you may be willing to. And that just doesn't make me wan't to keep watching that show.
(Apollogies for some English mistakes, not my native language)