Critic’s Score: 3.95 / 5.0
3.95
It’s not fairly often we get a Kasie-centric NCIS episode, so this was a deal with.
And I’m even on board with the truth that it’s linked to a foolish “adults enjoying some model of Dungeons and Dragons” storyline.
That’s not a diss on adults who play such video games; it’s a diss on how the media portrays them.
Anybody who’s into role-playing video games at all times turns into a joke within the leisure world, however would the world actually be worse off if extra individuals obtained collectively to play video games, whether or not Dungeons and Dragons, Ferrets and Pheasants, Yahtzee, or Monopoly?
It’s obtained to be quite a bit higher than sitting round in a bunch together with your faces buried in your cellphone, ignoring each other. Hell, carry on recreation night time!
McGee can be within the scorching seat on NCIS Season 22 Episode 12 as a result of the following Tom E Gemcity ebook has leaked. Now, I understand that among the punch can be misplaced if individuals in search of info have been calling his mobile phone, however would the lots actually have a direct line to NCIS?
These little issues that fall into tropes don’t matter throughout “Enjoyable and Video games” as a result of the writers had a lot enjoyable with the dialogue. What started as giggles quickly became tear-inducing laughter, and what might be higher than that?
The case of the week started merely sufficient, and everybody jumped on board with the gaming facet. Seeing people wearing odd garb can try this to you.
Parker: I’m wondering if somebody took issues a bit of too significantly.
Torres: Judging by the outfit, I’d say the reply is sure.
Parker: I used to be speaking in regards to the killer.
Think about the staff’s shock when, after they’ve been making enjoyable of the man with nicknames like Conan the Barbarian, Kasie reveals up, admitting she threw the social gathering the place everybody had been enjoying the sport.
They have been all forensic scientists, too. Parker joked they weren’t the individuals you’d need to play Clue with, and he’s proper.
Kasie wasn’t anticipating extra guests and definitely didn’t need her home to be thought of a criminal offense scene. For her, it’s the worst-case state of affairs — her home is an absolute mess to the purpose you’ll be able to’t simply move it off on final night time’s festivities.
Truthfully, I really feel for the lady. A minimum of she has buddies. I’ve a home stuffed with vogue dolls and by no means have friends. However after I do… oy, it’s a lot to attempt to clarify. I should identify one Ernesto as a result of introducing one thing with a reputation was fairly cool.
All of her buddies are on the hook for Victor’s dying, and one, Max, even went as far as to ship a flavorful electronic mail about precisely how he’d kill Victor if he might.
As they get dragged in one after the other, the staff can’t assist however tease one another about it.
It’s like watching an episode of America’s Subsequent Prime Nerd.
— Torres
McGee’s ebook leak provides one other degree of goofiness to an already goofy episode. His drawback is that he wrote one thing a bit of too reasonable, and the Division of Protection is after him. I’ve learn that story one too many instances, however on this case, it’s plausible.
How laborious wouldn’t it be to put in writing one thing completely off the cuff if you truly do have entry to inside info? Even the slightest reference might change into too near the reality.
Ultimately, he’s freed of any wrongdoing, however within the meantime, the staff had extra laughs with the surprisingly spicy materials.
Whether or not Torres makes a casual comment about studying McGee’s ebook and is straight away assigned a ebook report or Parker needs to know what occurred with Agent Tibbs, it was foolish at its finest.
Because the case continued, it was found {that a} lacking mate named Craig had additionally been murdered by a present of fondu. However not earlier than they puzzled: How do you even ship fondu? I imply, who even mentions fondu today? That’s a Seventies delicacy that hardly ever will get the highlight anymore.
But, it was fondu that hit my humorous bone. I needed to rewind and watch the phase with the next change a couple of instances as a result of it landed so completely.
Jimmy: Time of dying was earlier than the get collectively at Kasie’s that I wasn’t invited to.
Parker: Which makes Craig right here our first sufferer. The killer will need to have strangled him after which despatched the fondu. As one does.
Folks usually argue over casting adjustments when a present has been on so long as NCIS. Nevertheless, watching Jimmy and Parker riff about totally different subjects that match collectively superbly proves that NCIS nonetheless has the magic we’d like for the present to outlive.
It was laborious saying goodbye to Mark Harmon and his stoic Gibbs, however Alden Parker isn’t a alternative for Gibbs, and Gary Cole took full benefit of that by making Parker so refreshingly humorous.
His comedic timing has at all times been impeccable, and he makes coping with homicide extra enjoyable than it ought to be.
Kasie and her forensic buddies all had the identical professor in class, Shari Belafonte’s Annabelle David. When the staff centered on photochemistry via the collodium course of, Kasie knew she had to herald Annabelle for her experience.
In spite of everything, they have been now below the impression that Craig wasn’t investigating a criminal offense however committing one. (All hail McGee’s poisonous gasoline detector utilizing Hazard Zone by Kenny Loggins because the warning sign.)
However simply when it appeared that they have been onto one thing, the case zig-zagged in one other course.
Craig was making printing plates, akin to the type you might use to make counterfeit cash, however it’s not cash he’s messing with.
Both I’m proper or Craig is the luckiest man alive. Other than, you realize, the truth that he’s lifeless.
— Jimmy
He was creating counterfeit Mecha Ferret playing cards that went for $10 grand a pop.
However simply once we thought that was that, the story twisted, and Craig WAS investigating another person, however within the course of, needed to learn to make the counterfeits.
He was caught when he entered a recreation trying like a Temu model of Neo from The Matrix.
However even that wasn’t the tip of it. In spite of everything, there aren’t any coincidences in casting.
A minor talking half and walk-on function turns into rather more when the character interacts the principle stars. To that finish, a child named Winston had been despatched to jail on proof Annabelle had offered.
Shari Belafonte wasn’t going to return onto NCIS simply so her character might hug Kasie and reminisce in regards to the outdated days. They needed to no less than do her the glory of being part of the case.
The look on her face when she fell to the bottom in her classroom made me consider that she was the perpetrator. Annabelle thought she was smarter than the scholars she taught, which was the worst.
Besides she wasn’t the dangerous man they have been in search of. She was simply a part of the larger image.
With Victor’s dying, the staff uncovered a counterfeit buying and selling card crime, however the true crime was tied on to Professor Davis, who put away Winston on bogus proof.
What I didn’t perceive at first was why recreation night time was focused.
Winston wasn’t the one one who had been let down by Professor Davis. Kasie and the others actually appeared as much as her, and every thing they believed about her can be undone together with her crime.
However Kasie was proper that that they had one thing particular with the professor, and Winston thought that since she took every thing away from him, he might take these she cared about most away from her.
However how did Winston know the way shut all of them have been? She will need to have spent quite a lot of time speaking about that group to new college students if he had put collectively that they have been the individuals Professor Davis cared about probably the most.
Kasie was extremely disenchanted to have been referred to as one of many good ones by somebody who turned out to be dangerous. The staff pulled collectively and pulled her out of her doldrums with extra meals than they might eat and a bonus maid service.
This was a fantastic episode about staff camaraderie and the ability of humor on NCIS. When the episode started, I groaned. One other have a look at a unusual group of Dungeons and Dragons gamers? Haven’t we seen that sufficient?
After which NCIS jogged my memory about why it’s been on the air for 22 seasons. They will write a trope-filled story and make it completely fulfilling. Rating one other one for the NCIS staff!
What did you consider “Enjoyable and Video games”? Did you get the giggles like I did?
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