NCIS: The Sixteenth Season

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Writers did a good job of fitting Kasie in. She’s not Abby, but she’s good – deal with it!! There were several very strong episodes in Season 16 and the writers did not disappoint in setting up the finale – and what a finale it was!! Thankfully, season 17 starts in a few days and we get to see the return of you-know-who

– Experienced at life

f one word could be used to describe the overall mood of CBS’ NCIS during its sixteenth season, it would be “emotional.” More so than in recent seasons, the episodes this year tap into a wellspring of deep-seated emotions for many of the characters in the network’s long-running and top-rated dramatic procedural. It helps that the cast of regulars is stable and secure this season with no additions or deletions to the very familiar roster of actors making the viewers’ identification with these longtime characters paramount.

Once the ridiculous season fifteen cliffhanger is resolved in the season’s first episode “Destiny’s Child,” the characters are off and running on another very good season of cases. The four-person team is led by Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) with senior field agent Timothy McGee (Sean Murray) now fully grown into his position of leadership for the squad when Gibbs is away. Ellie Bishop (Emily Wickersham) and Nick Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) complete the line-up. The latter two seem to have inherited the will-they-or-won’t-they vibe from previous seasons’ flirty agents DiNozzo and David with the couple’s closeness particularly noticeable through prolonged glances, inside jokes between the two, and occasional squabbling, a sure sign of a potential relationship in the offing in upcoming seasons. Dr. Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) graduates to chief medical examiner during the season when longtime M.E. Dr. “Ducky” Mallard (David McCallum) segues into a new position as NCIS historian which will allow the elderly actor to recur through the season without having to appear in every episode. Added at the end of season fifteen is Diona Reasonover playing amiably fizzy forensic scientist Kasie Hines who immediately fits into the NCIS family as if she had always been there. Also playing an important role for the team this season is house forensic psychologist Dr. Jacqueline Sloane (Maria Bello) who, particularly in the Christmas episode “What Child Is This?” seems to be headed toward a potential relationship with Gibbs in future seasons.

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Actors: Maria Bello, Rocky Carroll, Brian Dietzen, Mark Harmon, David McCallum
Format: Subtitled, NTSC
Number of discs: 6
Rated: NR-Not Rated
Studio: Paramount
ASIN: B07SWQ1Z6T