NCIS: New Orleans

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Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 23, 2014
Season #: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
55

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Sep 23, 2014
    60
    There’s a Crescent City flavor here. But in the larger picture, not much on this menu is unfamiliar.
  2. Hitfix
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Sep 22, 2014
    58
    Not an especially good first episode (the two-part backdoor pilot on "NCIS" last spring was better), but one I may return to on occasion, just like the original series, just to see the actors work.
  3. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Jason Hughes
    Sep 23, 2014
    50
    It's the strong sense of family within the team that's going to keep viewers coming back.
  5. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Sep 23, 2014
    50
    NCIS: NO is set and shot in Louisiana's signature city, providing a visual and cultural richness that will help set the show apart. More than the writing does, anyway, at least initially.
  6. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Myles McNutt
    Sep 23, 2014
    50
    Bakula is a strong anchor for a series like this one, and the supporting cast is likable and engaged.... However, based on the framework laid out by producers, NCIS: New Orleans is primarily concerned with continuing the franchise, at the expense of telling stories of the lived realities of its primary setting.
  7. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Sep 22, 2014
    50
    For some viewers this sameness will be like slipping on a comfy pair of slippers; for others NCIS: New Orleans might be too much the same.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Sep 22, 2014
    50
    NCIS: New Orleans bears a closer resemblance to “CSI: Miami” than anything else, simply in terms of trying to use a specific locale to differentiate a spinoff that otherwise doesn’t orbit far from the mother ship with a Big Easy vibe.
  9. The Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Kristi Turnquist
    Sep 19, 2014
    50
    The cast has easy chemistry, the New Orleans setting is colorful, and Pounder lends class to anything she does. The CBS procedural formula works, but that doesn't make it feel any less formulaic.
  10. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Sep 19, 2014
    50
    The title tells you all you need to know.... The rest is pretty much gumbo from a can.
  11. The Huffington Post
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    Sep 17, 2014
    50
    This iteration of the very successful "NCIS" franchise is, unsurprisingly, as competent as all the others, Bakula is typically good and it's nice that the show actually shot in New Orleans.
  12. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Sep 23, 2014
    40
    The plot of the pilot, which begins with the discovery of a severed leg in a load of shrimp, is clever enough and manages to fit a lot of locations into its 40-minute hour. That time is also filled with cornball dialogue, shameless sentimentality and B-movie displays of toughness.
  13. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    Sep 22, 2014
    40
    Despite all those [Louisiana] touches, the pacing is slower, the jokes more labored, the personalities more wooden.

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User Score
4.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 75 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 75
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 75
  3. Negative: 33 out of 75
  1. Tony1984
    Jul 9, 2018
    2
    Really poor, Just about everything in this show is substandard. The dialogue, the dumb plots, the bogus background shots, the God awfulReally poor, Just about everything in this show is substandard. The dialogue, the dumb plots, the bogus background shots, the God awful accents. But over and above all of them is Scott Bakula. He's useless. TV for vegetables… Full Review »
  2. annNOLA
    Mar 30, 2015
    1
    I have really enjoyed NCIS and NCIS LA. But this one is really poorly done. I grew up in New Orleans . . . and these people would NOT HAVE ANI have really enjoyed NCIS and NCIS LA. But this one is really poorly done. I grew up in New Orleans . . . and these people would NOT HAVE AN OFFICE in the French Quarter. The accents are awful. The frequent Quarter shoots are bogus. What the heck are they thinking? People who live in New Orleans come from all over. They would have done much better not to have these forced accents (oh, god how awful), and to use more of the city for location shoots. There are so many possible places. This comes off as less than two dimensional. Is it possible for there to be a one dimensional portrayal of something? Well, they've managed.… Full Review »
  3. OldGuy1
    Oct 8, 2014
    2
    This show has several faults beginning with the writing which is absolutely horrible. The dialogue reminds me of a grade school play. TheThis show has several faults beginning with the writing which is absolutely horrible. The dialogue reminds me of a grade school play. The actors are okay at best, but the accents are silly. The only things of merit are the plot lines which actually believable.

    Lucas Black repeatedly acts as if he has been caught by his Mom reading dirty books. Scott Bakula just does not portray an individual of authority as Agent in Charge. Zoe McLellan is the only one worth keeping, and should transfer to the D.C. unit to join Gibbs and Company.

    I'm done with New Orleans.    … Full Review »
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