Two of the most terrible people in the world, Isaak Sidorov and Marcel Janvier, both returned to wreak havoc in the NCIS: Los Angeles season finale. When criminal masterminds like those two are involved, it's dangerous to let your guard down even for a second.
In "Descent," that's exactly what happened... with tragic results.
Before I get into the core of the NCIS plan and where it all went wrong, I have to complain and complain Loudly to the writers and producers of NCIS: La. I don't mind cliffhangers throughout a season and I don't even mind them in finales. Television is a serial storytelling format, so it's understandable for there to be unresolved questions. If done well, cliffhangers create an emotional connection for viewers with the characters and with the show.
That is not how NCIS:la season 4 ended though. Instead, the finale was the first half of a story.
In "Descent," that's exactly what happened... with tragic results.
Before I get into the core of the NCIS plan and where it all went wrong, I have to complain and complain Loudly to the writers and producers of NCIS: La. I don't mind cliffhangers throughout a season and I don't even mind them in finales. Television is a serial storytelling format, so it's understandable for there to be unresolved questions. If done well, cliffhangers create an emotional connection for viewers with the characters and with the show.
That is not how NCIS:la season 4 ended though. Instead, the finale was the first half of a story.
- 5/15/2013
- by carla@tvfanatic.com (Carla Day)
- TVfanatic
The NCIS: Los Angeles Season 4 premiere proved again why it's one of CBS' - and maybe even TV's - best crime dramas. The underrated NCIS spinoff never ceases to impress with plot complexities uncommon in a procedural.
Like the Season 3 finale that preceded it, "Endgame" was a multi-layered thriller, but one that wasn't overly reliant on the huge explosions and fast-paced action executive producer Shane Brennan usually provides.
Instead, what we watched unfold was an installment based on an increasingly tangled web of lies, international espionage and murder, culminating in the mother of all twists. That one was up there with The Sixth Sense!
Okay, maybe not. But it was still good.
While the elaborate masquerade orchestrated by the CIA and NCIS made for a relatively fast and drama-free conclusion to the Season 4 premiere, it probably fooled more than a few fans along the way.
The deliberate misdirection still had...
Like the Season 3 finale that preceded it, "Endgame" was a multi-layered thriller, but one that wasn't overly reliant on the huge explosions and fast-paced action executive producer Shane Brennan usually provides.
Instead, what we watched unfold was an installment based on an increasingly tangled web of lies, international espionage and murder, culminating in the mother of all twists. That one was up there with The Sixth Sense!
Okay, maybe not. But it was still good.
While the elaborate masquerade orchestrated by the CIA and NCIS made for a relatively fast and drama-free conclusion to the Season 4 premiere, it probably fooled more than a few fans along the way.
The deliberate misdirection still had...
- 9/26/2012
- by steve@iscribelimited.com (Steve Marsi)
- TVfanatic
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