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NCIS: New Orleans: See You Soon (2018)
How are these writers employed?!
I live NCIS NOLA and I live Pride - but this show doesn't make it easy. The first couple of seasons were great but this episode is one of the truely awful examples of how rubbish the script writing became in the second half of the series lifespan. I worked in healthcare for many years and I understand that real workings of hospitals aren't always as exciting as script writers need it to be . I also understand Scriptwriters may not have a great degree of medical knowledge. But, my God, it's so easy to find out the basics by a simple google search. A) pride would be amazingly lucky to make it to hospital after three point blank gunshots to the chest....but let's pretend it happened. B) Loretta at one point states both his lungs have collapsed yet he has no chest tubes in place to re-inflate them - until when they are loading him into the helicopter when 1 drain can be seen sitting at the same level as his chest....c) he would be in icu monitored 1:1, ventilated (definitely not just with nasal prong O2), and would have central lines and multiple iv lines....not just 1 peripheral iv line. 4) there is no way in hell Loretta and Rita could just remove his bed and wheel him away.....i mean, C'MON!! 5) the whole cpr thing. CPR is done on a flat surface. The bed lies flat and you jump on the bed and start pumping the chest. Not while they are sitting up. That's just the beginning - I could go on and on about the dream sequences and the general rubbish storyline. As I said at the beginning a lot of this just sloppy script writing. For the money they would be receiving, open an internet search engine and google what would happen if a person was shot once let alone 3 times in the chest and try to make it even a little realistic.
NCIS: New Orleans: Matthew 5:9 (2019)
Really poor script writing
I was always a big fan of NCIS NOLA but the last few seasons were really hard to keep going. The hospital scenes are woeful. Amongst the fact Lasalle would have had more than oxygen nasal prongs and a single IV peripheral cannula, there is no way in hell they would call time of death after a couple of minutes trying to revive him. They would work on him a LOT longer than that (said as someone who has worked on resus teams many, many times). And why do they even bother trying to add excitement by using the paddles and insist on saying someone's in VF and shock them when the monitor is clearly showing flatline? If you're not going to make the scenes remotely realistic then why bother. Lasalle was great though. I was sad to see him go. Sebastian is just annoying and there is no way he would make it into the REACT team. Tammy is fine but once they left the team with only Tammy, Sebastian, Hannah, carter and pride it was time to go. Not even Scott bakula could hold the dead weight the show had become.
NCIS: New Orleans: The River Styx, Part II (2019)
Completely unbelievable
First - Raymond Isler being locked in a metal coffin (which can only be assumed to be airtight) for the long flight back to New Orleans then turns out he was given a drug to make him appear dead and in a deep coma, but then miraculously wakes as if from a lovely sleep when injected (in the shoulder, no less!!) with adrenaline. No brain damage. No lasting effects. Can leap off the table and get back into action straight away. I mean....seriously.
Dwayne being held captive In a state of the art facility after being plucked from war torn Ossetia and plied full of drugs. Not to mention that the angel of death visions are back.
Now, I love this show. I'm a big fan of Scott Bakula. But, again.....SERIOUSLY. A 12 year old could write more believable scripts than this. It's so aggravating that a show with so much potential is being given such rubbish script writers. It's like the powers that be at CBS want this to fail.
NCIS: New Orleans: The River Styx, Part I (2019)
Not a bad episode
Getting a bit tired of the over the top storylines - particularly surrounding Apollyon - and kind of wishing they would get back to the basics like when the show first started. Also, as this is a barely believable storyline I'll let it slide, but are they supposed to be in Georgia, the country or Georgia, the US state - as there seems to be zero time difference. The New Orleans teams are talking to Pride and Lasalle and both appear to be in the middle of the day despite there being a 9 hour time difference between the two countries. So if its late afternoon in Georgia, its early morning in New Orleans and, if its mid afternoon in New Orleans then its in the middle of the night in Georgia. It's little things like that sort of lazy writing that irritates. But I love Scott Bakula and the character of Chris Lasalle is a sweetheart so I still enjoyed this episode overall.