The bad writing and poor direction and cinematography doesn’t help any either. I’m surprised that writer/producer Shane Brennan has done so much work with the original NCIS, because NCIS:LA has none of those solid character interactions that the original does. Then again, none of the cast has the same acting ability or cast leadership and mentoring that you get with Mark Harmon or David McCallum, surprising considering the original casting director for NCIS, Susan Bluestein, is the same one calling the casting shots on NCIS:LA.

The new show has too much of a ‘glam’ feel to it and is more Hollywood than military. They’ve taken a great concept and turned it into nothing more than another formula crime procedural with pretty people and pretty sets. If they wanted another one of those (aren’t there enough of these already on TV, particularly CBS?) , they shouldn’t have named it NCIS; the obvious problem there is that they don’t get all the benefits that come with that association and let’s face it, that’s really all that CBS wanted.