{"id":21883,"date":"2019-08-31T23:39:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T06:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=21883"},"modified":"2019-08-31T23:41:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T06:41:57","slug":"review-ncis-no-s5-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2019\/08\/review-ncis-no-s5-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"NCIS: New Orleans: The Fifth Season DVD Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Having watched Quantum Leap<\/em> growing up, I\u2019m a fan of Scott Bakula where he was pretty goof in the much maligned Enterprise<\/em> series, but now five seasons in, with a few exceptions, NCIS: New Orleans<\/em><\/strong> really is need of some fresh blood within the writers\u2019 room or something.<\/p>\n

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NCIS: New Orleans: The Fifth Season<\/span>
\n(2018-19)<\/span>
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Genre(s): <\/strong>Action, Drama, Crime<\/span>
\nParamount | NR \u2013 1003 min. \u2013 $55.98 | August 20, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Date Published:<\/strong> 08\/31\/2019 | Author:<\/strong> The Movieman<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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SEASON INFO:
\n<\/u><\/strong>Directed by: <\/strong>Various
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Gary Glasberg (created by)
\nCast: <\/strong>Scott Bakula, Lucas Black, Vanessa Ferlito, Necar Zadegan, Rob Kerkovich, Daryl \u201cChill\u201d Mitchell, CCH Pounder<\/span><\/p>\n
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DISC INFO:
\n<\/u><\/strong>Features: <\/strong>Featurettes
\nSlip Cover: <\/strong>Yes
\nDigital Copy: <\/strong>No
\nFormats Included: <\/strong>DVD
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>1<\/span><\/p>\n
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Audio: <\/strong>English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
\nVideo: <\/strong>Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>English SDH, Spanish
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>1<\/span><\/p>\n
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THE SEASON \u2014 2.5\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Season Synopsis: <\/strong>Special Agent Dwayne Cassius Pride (SCOTT BAKULA) leads an elite team of agents and specialists \u2014 Senior Field Agent Christopher LaSalle (LUCAS BLACK), Special Agent Tammy Gregorio (VANESSA FERLITO), Forensics Specialist Sebastian Lund (ROB KERKOVICH), Computer Specialist Patton Plame (DARYL MITCHELL) and Medical Examiner Loretta Wade (CCH POUNDER) \u2014 as they take on assassins, conspiracies, and mysteries years in the making, all while recruiting some new blood into the squad, namely SSA Hannah Khoury (NECAR ZADEGAN).<\/p>\n

Quick Hit Review: <\/strong>I really enjoy the flagship series, NCIS<\/em>. I also find myself entertained by NCIS: Los Angeles<\/em> even when the writing isn\u2019t always top-notch and the plot lines can get outlandish with intrigue and espionage. NCIS: New Orleans<\/em><\/strong> for me is the black sheep of the franchise, the acting never was the best but worse, the writing has been, at best, inconsistent. This fifth season opens with Pride having been shop no less than three times by an ex-CIA assassin (ELLEN HOLLMAN), and in part the episode finds Pride resisting death (as portrayed by AMY RUTBERG, whose CIA agent character was killed off in season four); these sequences were rather bad, both in terms of the writing and acting, not that the A storyline was any better with the team hunting the assassin down, and missing the mark at every turn.<\/p>\n

I knew this would be a chore of a season just from that opening episode and while it never got quite that bad, though Bakula\u2019s Pride certainly took another front and center role once again, I still find this series to be, if I\u2019m being kind, middling. I suppose it\u2019s okay if you have nothing else to watch (find that hard to believe with the amount of content out there), but after five seasons, kind of have to give it up this will get any better. On the plus side, even though she doesn\u2019t get a whole lot to do, Vanessa Ferlito still looks good, so there\u2019s that.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 2.75\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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As with the previous season sets, this 6-disc release comes housed in a clear DVD case, with the episode list printed on the interior covers.<\/p>\n

King Cake: The 100th Episode (11:03)<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 This featurette looks at the episode \u2018In the Blood\u2019 and a new twist for Pride. Of course.<\/p>\n

Cast and Creole: A Look at Season 5 (23:33)<\/u><\/strong> breaks down some of the storylines and character developments over the course of this fifth season.<\/p>\n

Who Dat?: Hannah Khoury (10:54)<\/u><\/strong> is an introduction to the newest series regular and her character.<\/p>\n

Off Subject<\/u><\/strong> are a series of short featurettes where the cast talk about various subjects, such as what would they be doing if they hadn\u2019t become an actor or talking about turning down roles.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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VIDEO \u2013 4.5\/5, AUDIO \u2013 3.75\/5
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(Both copied from my season 1 review)<\/p>\n

Paramount releases NCIS: New Orleans<\/em><\/strong> in its original televised anamorphic 1.78 widescreen aspect ratio and the show looks pretty darn good taking advantage of the bright colors of the Crescent City. There\u2019s some minor aliasing but nothing terrible and detail for standard def is decent.<\/p>\n

Each episode is accompanied by a Dolby Digital 5.1 track which more than gets the job done offering clear dialogue while the more action-centric scenes as well as the occasional explosion provides some depth, though it\u2019s not entirely robust but for a lossy track, it\u2019s above average.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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OVERALL \u2013 2.5\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Having watched Quantum Leap<\/em> growing up, I\u2019m a fan of Scott Bakula where he was pretty goof in the much maligned Enterprise<\/em> series, but now five seasons in, with a few exceptions, NCIS: New Orleans<\/em><\/strong> really is need of some fresh blood within the writers\u2019 room or something, as these scripts are serving Bakula, and the entire supporting cast, no help. This season is more of the same like the last.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having watched Quantum Leap growing up, I\u2019m a fan of Scott Bakula where he was pretty goof in the much maligned Enterprise series, but now five seasons in, with a few exceptions, NCIS: New Orleans really is need of some fresh blood within the writers\u2019 room or something.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,970],"tags":[2555,6503,3977,409,6502,5486,2048,5485],"class_list":["post-21883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd-reviews","category-quick-hit-reviews","tag-cch-pounder","tag-daryl-chill-mitchell","tag-lucas-black","tag-ncis","tag-necar-zadegan","tag-rob-kerkovich","tag-scott-bakula","tag-vanessa-ferlito"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21886,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883\/revisions\/21886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}