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This show used to be a rather interesting show with compelling plot lines and multiple storylines woven together like an elaborate spy novel. Episodes like this feel like the product of a writer's strike. It is, sadly, a simplistic (and obvious) paint by numbers procedural cop drama. (Yawn). Hopefully there won't be many more "filler" episodes like this. It did nothing to advance the main story other than to introduce a new character whose condescending & ironic quips are an embarrassment for a show that has often been host to quirky, odd and amusing Reddington associates. - The oddball (different & unusual) friends of Reddington have often been the best bits. - Character actors who get the spot light for once. Mocking the "foosball playing lawyer" who takes care of his baby smacks of the same intolerance the show bends over backward to champion in other contexts. "He's weird but he's really good", is somehow allowed in THIS instance? ...Maybe tolerance should be afforded everyone? Not just those on in vogue? - Mock no one or mock everyone. But picking & choosing IS discrimination - However you justify it.
The only people being Gaslit are the audience.
Either no one researched it before writing the show or no one cared for the real details. HONESTLY. The show just seems like it was created so that writers could try to show how clever they were with ridiculously witty try-hard) dialogue.
I have been obsessed with Watergate since I was very young. I remember seeing Nixon on tv when I was 6 & sitting at my grandmother's house while the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities was broadcast daily on PBS. Later in 7th grade I did a book report on it and wrote a 10. Page poem of it for my English class. (Yes, I was that weird geeky kid!) - Now that we have the internet, those very congressional hearings are available to watch on the Library of Congress site. Needless to say, I have watched every hour of testimony multiple times and will admit that, while others may drift off to sleep while listening to music or audiobooks, I listen to the testimony to fall asleep.
One of my 'comfort movies' is "All The President's Men" and I've a hard cover version of the testimony published as " Special Prosecutor and Watergate Grand Jury Legislation. Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session on H. J. Res. 784". - It's obviously still relevant, Hollywood & the media still write about it.
Among the witnesses are; two of the plain cloths cops who responded to the Watergate call, Jim McCord, Dean, Butterfield, Halderman, Segretti, Magruder, Ehrlichman & the rest of the cast of characters.
The testimony was extensive & the cross examinations exhaustive. So It boggles my mind how they changed facts & detailed conversations to weave together this mediocre soap opera laced with boringly irrelevant relationship drama.
Jim McCord is characterized as an idiot who knows nothing about bugging or espionage when in fact he was a former FBI agent and an expert in physical security & electronic devices at the CIA.
There are hours of Jack Caufield's testimony related to the the initial revelation that men who gave false names were reported to have been arrested at Watergate. - All of it left out.
So so much more is just wrong or missing. It makes it unwatchable.
Either no one researched it before writing the show or no one cared for the real details. HONESTLY. The show just seems like it was created so that writers could try to show how clever they were with ridiculously witty try-hard) dialogue.
I have been obsessed with Watergate since I was very young. I remember seeing Nixon on tv when I was 6 & sitting at my grandmother's house while the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities was broadcast daily on PBS. Later in 7th grade I did a book report on it and wrote a 10. Page poem of it for my English class. (Yes, I was that weird geeky kid!) - Now that we have the internet, those very congressional hearings are available to watch on the Library of Congress site. Needless to say, I have watched every hour of testimony multiple times and will admit that, while others may drift off to sleep while listening to music or audiobooks, I listen to the testimony to fall asleep.
One of my 'comfort movies' is "All The President's Men" and I've a hard cover version of the testimony published as " Special Prosecutor and Watergate Grand Jury Legislation. Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session on H. J. Res. 784". - It's obviously still relevant, Hollywood & the media still write about it.
Among the witnesses are; two of the plain cloths cops who responded to the Watergate call, Jim McCord, Dean, Butterfield, Halderman, Segretti, Magruder, Ehrlichman & the rest of the cast of characters.
The testimony was extensive & the cross examinations exhaustive. So It boggles my mind how they changed facts & detailed conversations to weave together this mediocre soap opera laced with boringly irrelevant relationship drama.
Jim McCord is characterized as an idiot who knows nothing about bugging or espionage when in fact he was a former FBI agent and an expert in physical security & electronic devices at the CIA.
There are hours of Jack Caufield's testimony related to the the initial revelation that men who gave false names were reported to have been arrested at Watergate. - All of it left out.
So so much more is just wrong or missing. It makes it unwatchable.
What an absolutely RIDICULOUS EPISODE!!
Gone are the days when NCIS had multiple plots and story arcs. Now we have simplistic plots, goofy dialogue & one dimensional characters.
Honestly, if you're going to write a specialty episode just for a dumb side character, at least make it interesting. This "Casey is super amazing at everything" thread the show keeps pulling is LAME. (It's like making Urkle a super hero - DUMB!)
I've watched this show since the first episode & am about to pull the plug on it. I'd hoped that the addition of Gary Cole was going to bring something interesting to the show. But it feels like the show has been re-tooled as a kid's program.
The dialogue has become ridiculous, the plots have become ridiculous, the constant grade-school gossip circles are ridiculous, the lack of any REAL knowledge on how NCIS (and other criminal agencies) work is ridiculous.
When i was growing up LOTS of shows had adult characters behaving ad adults. Today all shows seem to have replaced their leads with 20-somethings or adults acting just as juvenile.
Sad that the producers of NCIS think their audience is too dumb for real adult plots, characters & dialogue.
Gone are the days when NCIS had multiple plots and story arcs. Now we have simplistic plots, goofy dialogue & one dimensional characters.
Honestly, if you're going to write a specialty episode just for a dumb side character, at least make it interesting. This "Casey is super amazing at everything" thread the show keeps pulling is LAME. (It's like making Urkle a super hero - DUMB!)
I've watched this show since the first episode & am about to pull the plug on it. I'd hoped that the addition of Gary Cole was going to bring something interesting to the show. But it feels like the show has been re-tooled as a kid's program.
The dialogue has become ridiculous, the plots have become ridiculous, the constant grade-school gossip circles are ridiculous, the lack of any REAL knowledge on how NCIS (and other criminal agencies) work is ridiculous.
When i was growing up LOTS of shows had adult characters behaving ad adults. Today all shows seem to have replaced their leads with 20-somethings or adults acting just as juvenile.
Sad that the producers of NCIS think their audience is too dumb for real adult plots, characters & dialogue.