NCIS: Los Angeles (premiering tonight at 9 p.m. ET on CBS) is an ensemble drama. But let’s get real: It stars Chris O’Donnell and LL Cool J, and the show’s success is going to depend on their chemistry (at least in the early weeks). If the video below, shot at our Fall TV Preview issue photo shoot, is any indication, the boys are on their way to a beautiful friendship. Note LL’s superior giggle when Chris confesses that he’s still addicted to Survivor (LL prefers The Tudors). Look at Chris, showing more personality than I would have given him credit for and retroactively validating the crush I had on him circa 1995, cracking a joke about how LL’s been blaring the Loggins and Messina. (Click here, LL, to find out who they are).
Are we psyched for NCIS: Los Angeles? (Not sarcasm: I’m DVRing.)
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You’re right. It looks like they’re gonna be good buds.
I can’t wait to see the show. It’s #1 on my new shows to watch list, so I’m very excited for tonight.
It’s also well known that both are big family guys, so I’m sure that gives them something extra to bond over, even though they come from such different backgrounds.
Great show but background music overpowers the dialog to the point that the story line is hard to follow.
Loved it, first 2 shows AWESOME!!!
@W T Gaut: Thank you! I thought it was just us. My wife and I love the show but have decided we can’t watch it any longer. We have to keep rewinding and straining to hear the dialog over the music. Whatever happened to the days when music set the mood and didn’t interfere with the dialog?
Terrible show. Chris O’Donnell is so bad it’s unintelligible. His face tells us nothing. He can’t act, and I do not understand how we wound up as a star on this show. Really bad.