This week, as I watched LL Cool J and Scott Caan converse in a car on the BQE about how they're from Queens and Bay Ridge, respectively, and that everything's changed but it's still the greatest city in the world, I couldn't help but wonder: "NCIS: New York," what took you so long?
CBS's "NCIS" is one of network television's most popular and longest-running scripted/non-animated shows of all time, bested only by "Law & Order" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." Like those copaganda shows, it is about solving crimes and presents its law enforcement protagonists as heroes. But unlike those shows, it mostly forgoes attempts at gritty realism in favor of absolutely absurd situations and dialogue that transcend into camp.