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8/10
A good start
neverenoughgold11 October 2022
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There will be a reveal here, so if you didn't watch the episode, better stop now.

That being said, it starts with Sam and Dad. There seems to be just a tiny bit of trust lacking, but there will be more on it at the end of the episode. As a Dad and a Son, it brought a smile and a little chuckle to me.

Back to the primary episode, we are provided some evidence Hetti is in trouble in Syria. Well, it might be more than trouble and we will find the truth later. After a fair amount of search and a bit of humor we find the bad guy and of course, he gives up readily. Body count is minimal thanks to a clean shot provided by trustworthy sniper Kensi.

At the ending McRaney offers Callen a scotch, which is not s gracefully declined. Thankfully the scotch is not wasted c/o the Admiral.

An above average episode and I can't wait for next week.
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8/10
"Game of Drones"
allmoviesfan28 September 2023
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The final season of NCIS Los Angeles begins with a bang. Literally, when a security guard is in the middle of a big explosion at a company responsible for building unmanned aerial vehicles.

That might be the least of the team's problem, after bad news reaches Kilbride and Callen about an American body uncovered in Syria, whose name is one of the aliases the mysterious and missing Hetty Lange uses. Hard to believe that Hetty might be dead - she has always seemed destructible.

Elsewhere, Kensi and Deeks are settling in to being parents, Sam is trying to get his reluctant father to go to an activity centre (the back and forth is brilliant) and Fatima asks Callen if he wants some help planning his upcoming wedding to Anna Kolchek. The "fantasy" wedding that Fatima jokingly suggests would probably be the funniest NCIS Los Angeles scenes ever.

A strong start to the new season. Good to see the entertaining ensemble cast - Fatima, Kilbride and Rountree have fit in seamlessly in recent seasons, but I still miss Beale and Nell - back on the screen for their last hurrah season.
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6/10
Hyphenated Americans. Do-They-Care?
JasonSterling2910 October 2022
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Qasem Soleimani was murdered by America in January 2020 and his murder had real life repercussions for service members of the U. S. Military and bigwigs of the intelligence community. They were reports of Traumatic Brain Injury(TBI) as a result of Iran bombing a U. S. Military 'base' and hits were put out on the bigwigs.

This episode was based on retribution by Iran on American soil. I don't know any Americans in real life or Iranian-Americans for that matter but I want to know to do hyphenated Americans of America's enemy countries care for the anti(Iran, Russia, etc) sentiments in Hollywood or is it a big joke because there are real "oppression" and human rights violations in those countries?

It will be intriguing to see what happens to Fatima because of what happened to Mahsa Amini and if she stops covering her hair in episodes that are written after what happened to Mahsa.

Will this season's political message of this season be targeted at Iran's theocracy?
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6/10
Game of Drones
bobcobb30127 February 2023
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"Game of Drones" was a pretty uneventful season premiere for NCIS: Los Angeles. The show has settled into a fairly decent groove at this point and has cemented its place of that procedural your mother could have on in the background, but as long-time viewers we expect a bit more.

This episode followed the formula that the CBS procedural has utilized for a decade plus down to a tee from the uninspiring cold opening to a chase scene to the big climax at the off-site. The show remains an easy one to watch, but this was not something that you will remember, which is never a good thing with a season premiere.
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3/10
Game Of "Drones" Is About Right
anonamause12 October 2022
Like the rest of the NCIS franchise LA has taken a nosedive since COVID began and the premier of the new season was no different. From being an edgy espionage thriller this is becoming yet another kitchen sink soap opera (or should that be dope opera) guilty of resorting to sanctimonious moralistic preaching to hide the hollow and uninspiring storylines. The script is pedestrian and superficial, the acting wooden and the characterizations stale and one dimensional. There is little chance of a spoilers because there is no story in this show worth spoiling anymore.

If anything it's desperately in need of the drama of killing off one of the main characters (and no not Hetty) but one of the 6 agents and the creation of a serious villain to actually challenge them and give us a break from Sam 'Wokerman' Hannah's (spandex optional) interminable proselytizing, the near endless hand-wringing of the now diminished Deeks and Blye and the increasingly infantile witterings of Namazi and Roundtree.

Its lost its humour, its excitement and its intrigue and replaced it with dull tedium and identity tokenism. Its hard to see how it can carry on. Even the Hetty and 'G' narratives have become prosaic.

Ultimately I fear the NCIS franchise as a whole is done at least for the time being. It needs a break to revitalise and reinvent itself because none of the current shows are much good anymore.
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