Thursday, December 10th, 2009
05.30 NCIS
06.30 NCIS
07.30 White Collar
NCIS. Season 6, Episode 8. "Cloak" A fake war game exercise to expose the spy.
A superb change-of-pace episode that opens in the middle of the story, builds to a cliffhanger then doubles back a few days to set up the story in more detail. It's like a Hitchcock movie, with nobody telling anyone the full story and everybody (except Gibbs) in the dark about what is going on. Even the viewer doesn't know the full truth. Quite an impressive achievement.
And what's with Tony and Ziva???
NCIS. Season 6, Episode 9. "Dagger" The story of Agent Lee finally comes to a close.
Less complex than the previous episode, but even more tense. Instead of ten really good questions, the writers only give us one superb one: Is Lee telling the truth? And strings us out for the full hour as we, the viewers at home, are never sure what is coming next.
These two episodes are nothing like typical episodes of NCIS, but they maintain everything that is great about the show and may well be the two best episodes ever made.
White Collar. Episode 4. "Flip of the Coin" Friend framed for coin theft.
Great guest cast, but basic episode. Sarah Wynter and Garret Dillahunt are great, Susan Misner is underused, we get to see Peter and Mozzie on-screen together in a cool first meeting, but the overall story is a bit bland.
And some of it makes no sense. A guy walks in off the street and straight into an on-camera interview? Dumbest thing I've seen in a long while.
Highlight? NCIS (tense)
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