Like the rest of the NCIS franchise LA has taken a nosedive since COVID began and the premier of the new season was no different. From being an edgy espionage thriller this is becoming yet another kitchen sink soap opera (or should that be dope opera) guilty of resorting to sanctimonious moralistic preaching to hide the hollow and uninspiring storylines. The script is pedestrian and superficial, the acting wooden and the characterizations stale and one dimensional. There is little chance of a spoilers because there is no story in this show worth spoiling anymore.
If anything it's desperately in need of the drama of killing off one of the main characters (and no not Hetty) but one of the 6 agents and the creation of a serious villain to actually challenge them and give us a break from Sam 'Wokerman' Hannah's (spandex optional) interminable proselytizing, the near endless hand-wringing of the now diminished Deeks and Blye and the increasingly infantile witterings of Namazi and Roundtree.
Its lost its humour, its excitement and its intrigue and replaced it with dull tedium and identity tokenism. Its hard to see how it can carry on. Even the Hetty and 'G' narratives have become prosaic.
Ultimately I fear the NCIS franchise as a whole is done at least for the time being. It needs a break to revitalise and reinvent itself because none of the current shows are much good anymore.