NCIS (TV Series) House Divided (2017) User Reviews

House Divided

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 2 October 2017]

Is this show going to give us any groundbreaking episodes? Maybe not, but this was a good start to the season. It felt special, it was a tad edgy at times, and it gave Bishop and Torres the "urgent" material their characters needed to shine.

Sean Murray's acting wasn't quite up to par in the show, but overall good episode, and good to have NCIS back for Season 15.

Enjoyable, but far from shows best.

[harrykivi · 6/10 · 12 March 2020]

I've been a NCIS fanatic for many years, but I finally have confidence to write what I truly think of this wonderful show. There is no doubt that how the team works at NCIS is phenomenal, but in my experience the show has not been the same since Ziva left.

After her departure, the stories and characters of the show unfortunately tend to be watchable, though not as great or complicated as they previously where. I enjoyed the 12th, 13th series, but the 14th season was in my mind the most unimpressive of the show with its same old plot points we have seen over hundreds of times before.

The 15th season though starts decent with "House divided". Let's look at positives first.

. The story here is quite compelling. There are good action scenes, twists that work and feel well done.

. The acting is usually wonderful. I absolutely adore Mark Harmon as Gibbs, Sean Murray, Emily Wickersham and Wilmer Valderrama are also good.

. There are some tense moments and feel of dread in this episode, which helped the scenery a lot.

Overall, "House Divided" is very watchable, but there are things to be said about the problems.

.My biggest issue with this episode is the fact that it just doesn't fit as the premiere of the 15th season. In my opinion, "House divided" could have easily been at the end of the previous series. It would have made a lot more sense too in terms of the themes of fatherhood with Tim and gruesome torture.

. Also, there are couple of moments, where the humor (which I normally don't criticise- being a person whose jokes no one laughs at,except myself) does come of quite inappropriate. Especially the one about payphones- I mean: what was that about :)

. To end it all, the final twist of who is supposed to be the killer, feels bit weak ( I did suspect that person very early on.) When we are going to stop with a twist in which turns out that once innocent looking bystander committed the murder?

Overall, a fine watch, but the writing can come of bit sloppy at times.

6/10 HK

What Utter Nonsense!

[Man99204 · 3/10 · 27 September 2017]

Let me preface this review by saying that I have been a loyal NCIS viewer for the past fourteen years. It has been one of my favorite programs for over a decade.

The Season Opener for season fourteen is one of the most preposterous plot points I have seen on any CBS television series. The NCIS field team is stranded somewhere in the jungles of South America. The GPS on their cell phone is not working, so they are saved by .....loading a dating App onto the phone. Mererly by knowning the number of miles away they are able to immediately find the precise point in the Jungle to send the rescue team. What utter nonsense. What incredibly lazy writing.

This episode better not be indicative of the quality of upcoming episodes for this venerable series -- or it won't make it to Season 16.

Worst NCIS episode ever.

[jdonalds-5 · 4/10 · 30 September 2017]

I can't expect every episode of our favorite show to be top-notch, but this one is the worst we've ever seen.

The whole episode seems to have been written and directed by the "B" team of writers. Way too much unbelievable action. Cheap thrills.

I hope this isn't a harbinger of the rest of the season.