So I guess my readers are all eager to know how I liked the NCIS:RED launch seeing how annoyed I was with the initial descriptions of the characters. Well, I needed to eat up my own words as I was very pleasantly surprised with the way it turned out. I mean very surprised but it caught my interest and I want to see more of it.
So here´s in bulleting points what I liked about the show
-Kim Raver - First of all I was completely surprised with Kim Raver´s performance. I don´t know her as an actress and I was very impressed with her! She did a great job as Paris and I thought she was very believable. She gave Paris a nuance and made her feel realistic. I thoroughly enjoyed her performance!
-Gillian Alexy - Another actress I did not know but she impressed me as well. She has an awesome Australian accent and she carried herself with great confidence, even swagger which I enjoyed a lot.
-Scott Grimes - I enjoyed him a lot. He definitely pulled out the funniest performance!
-Paris Summerskill - The character was actually very well realized and you got heaps of interesting back story about her. She´s even part French! I was impressed with how realistic and well nuanced she was straight from the beginning. And I really want to see more of her.
-Claire Keats - She was my favorite! She was so self confident, sarcastic (which I bloody loved), enthusiastic, had a bit of a swagger, nicely weird and obviously very smart. I loved her in her scenes with Sam where she was so enthusiastic and just very genuine in her behavior. And her accent was so wonderful to listen to.
-The humour - Scott Grimes kept me laughing with his cooking prowess, his commentary on vegetarians and vegans (I totally recognized that being the long suffering sister of a strict vegetarian), his comment on the socks Keats gave him and adorable awkwardness. He was like Eric Beale and I enjoyed that.
-The storyline - I was actually really intrigued by the storyline and thought the twists and turns were fun. It certainly kept me on my toes and I did NOT expect the ending
-The spark between Paris and Callen - I adored it. The actors pulled well off the atmosphere of cautious but wondering curiosity and they were very earnest with each other. I thought it was lovely to see them and Callen deserves to have someone.
-The clothes - can I just say that I thought they were wonderful. I want all of Paris´s and Claire´s outfits already.
-The fact that there is a woman in charge - seeing how the TV world works today I loved that and it's a step up for CBS to actually have a TV series with a woman in charge (aside from Hetty maybe)
What I did not like
-The shoes the actresses were - minor detail but still, you do NOT wear shoes with heels when fighting someone/playing an agent
-Roy Haines - somehow he didn't quite get to me as a character. He was just a bit too... annoying and he did not seem to listen to Paris. But he can definitely improve
-Kai Ashe´s accent - this sounds extremely petty and mean but when I first heard his accent I was lost and couldn't grasp properly what he was saying. I had to listen a few times to get it. It did put me off.
But once I got used to it, it was much easier to listen to. I have excellent auditory English skills but sometimes I cannot hear properly what the actors say and it does throw me off to have to listen to a clip several times just to get the words.
Best scenes
-Claire and Dave sharing the chocolate bar. It was such a fun scene. They seemed so comfortable with each other sharing it and it was so normal for them. That did it for me. I laughed my head off when I saw it
-Dave talking about the socks that Claire gave him
-Dave worrying about allergies
-Callen and Paris discussing calling her P
-Hetty checking in on everyone
-Claire being over excited in the coffee house with Sam
-Dave trying to speak Spanish - what a wonderful scene it was!
Overall I thought it was a nice introduction to a new series and I am happy that a lot of my earlier misgivings proved untrue. I was apprehensive about it but now I do hope it´ll be put to a series. It definitely has potential and could turn out to be really really good. It's also allow for more overlap with NCIS:LA which would be fun. I do want to see Kensi and Deeks visit the Red team and Nell and Eric too.
So CBS you got me, please put it to series!
But I still stand by what I said when I first read the descriptions of the characters - they were terrible but thank goodness you improved.
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