NCIS: Los Angeles (TV Series) Blame It on Rio (2015) User Reviews

Hysterical

[tdfugere · 9/10 · 13 November 2015]

I'll preface this by saying that this is the only NCIS series I've seen, and have been binge watching it after seeing the cross-over episode with Hawaii Five-O. Therefore, DiNozzo was an unknown to me. So many of the episodes have been getting repetitive with the ultra-serious war on terror. It was great to have a little (lot) of levity. Comedy in a drama series can sometimes be hard to pull off, but this was done beautifully, upping Deeks's goofiness and Sam/G's banter. Kensi rarely has the opportunity to match Deeks's roving eye for the opposite sex, so her flirting with DiNozzo is a little payback at worst, and at best, keeping her "ship" with Deeks under wraps, since Deeks himself protested the "ship" to DiNozzo. Fun to have an episode where the bad guy wasn't really so bad, even if his over-the-top character was *way* over the top (which is why it was so funny). Favorite episode of the series, quite honestly. Enough that it prompted me to come here and write this!

I love this show...and this was terrible!

[balone21-189-943943 · 1/10 · 2 November 2015]

Let me preface this by saying, I LOVE both this show and the original NCIS. We heard, "wow, a crossover episode with DiNozzo! This'll be great! Instead, we got this episode... The opening scenes were great and left me hopeful, but from the time they left for Ops, it just went downhill. First of all, Tony DiNozzo has been a very special agent for a LONG time, but this episode made him seem naive and rather slow. Kenzi and Deeks have been doing fantastically relationship-wise, all season. All of a sudden, this episode, Kenzi massively flirts for most of the episode with Tony. The "bad guy" is like a cartoonish caricature of a North Korean guy, not at all anything of a serious seeming character in any sense. I don't know if the normal writers were on holiday or drunk or something, or if it was the winner from a high-school "write an episode!" contest, but it was REALLY uncharacteristically bad! My wife and I felt bad for the actors having to put up with such a horrid script, especially DiNozzo