T Wrenn

Have to leave one star because I can’t leave 0. This show doesn’t rise to the level of “knock-off”; it’s just a bad copy of the NCIS franchise. The original NCIS has been on for 19 seasons because the scripts, characters, etc., have been unique, the pivotal character is Gibbs and the book runners, network management and audience knows this. The copies aren’t needed, frankly. I couldn’t stand New Orleans, not crazy about LA and won’t be watching anymore episodes of this Hawaii mess. If the network is trying to mash 5-0 and NCIS together? Well, they have and it’s confusing bordering on silly. Also, moving NCIS off its 18-year Tuesday time slot is an absolute confirmation that Hawaii needs NCIS as its lead-in or it won’t make the cut. What’s going to happen instead, is that neither show will survive Monday. Then, CBS will either move NCIS again to get the audience back, or the 70 year old Harmon will throw in the towel and NCIS will end up in Autopsy in May 2022. Hawaii will fade quietly into the sunset, as CBS promotes other new shows during “ratings sweeps”. Like Pauley Perrette’s “Dollars” vanished. Hawaii’s characters that are like able, aren’t smart. The characters that are promoted as smart, are arrogant and instantly unlikeable. NCIS is CBS’s renovated Gunsmoke. There are parallel characters, some of whom left and new replacements filled in. But the one character around whom the show mattered and turned, was James Arness’s Matt Dillon. It went 20 seasons, but I think NCIS is going to fall short. But Gunsmoke never had spin-offs and it lives in syndication today. And that’s how I’ll be watching NCIS. On WE, Oxy and Sundance. And the cast can connect residuals from those.