TL;DR – It is time for NCIS Down Under to discover our wildlife kills.

Disclosure – I paid for the Paramount+ service that viewed this series.

NCIS: Sydney Review –

It would be best to amplify the oddnesses when you get into the weeds of collaborative work. It is here where the humour can be found, and why set something in Australia if you do not make the most of it? And I think we started to see some of that today.  

So to set the scene, along Cowen Creek in New South Wales, Australia, a couple of fishermen cast their lines until one catches a big one. A scuffle occurs until they land in the creek and discover a floating body under a tree branch. That body belonged to a staff sergeant running one of the most significant military depots in the southern hemisphere who found himself on the wrong side of a snake. But not a snake from this area. We will be looking at the episode as a whole from here, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.    

After the slight awkwardness of last week in Gone Fission, it makes sense that they would be a bit more further down the bonding path. On that front, I did like that they all brought drinks for each other. That is something that I can entirely see happening. This week, we once again get the pair up between the cast with Michelle Mackey (Olivia Swann) and Jim “JD” Dempsey (Todd Lasance) taking the lead, DeShawn (Sean Sagar) and Evie (Tuuli Narkle) running the leads down, with Blue (Mavournee Hazel) and Roy (William McInnes) staying back at base.  

In this week’s episode, Australia’s fauna takes the front face with one of the few times that you will see a kookaburra and see a kookaburra correctly at the same time. Americans might actually be familiar with the sound of kookaburras because they are part of the generic jungle sounds backing track. We also get a blue-tongued lizard, a galah, and, of course, the titular snake, the inland taipan. This is combined with a crime scenario that makes logical sense, which helps. Though we get it, that gait technology would crack the case, which was apparent from the first second it appeared on the screen.  

For some reason, this tension written in the show between Blue and Mackey does not make sense in the show’s context. Also, it felt like some characters in the depot were not generally represented. However, I got a good belly laugh when a character got on the wrong side of the car. Years of me doing the reverse felt slightly vindicated in the moment.

In the end, do we recommend NCIS: Sydney Snakes in the Grass? There are still some frustrating aspects of the show. But it is good to see two episodes in that we are starting to see them find their groove.

By Brian MacNamara: You can follow Brian on Twitter Here, when he’s not chatting about Movies and TV, he’ll be talking about International Relations, or the Solar System.

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Credits – All images were created by the cast, crew, and production companies of NCIS: Sydney
Directed by – Shawn Seet
Written by – Stuart Page, Michael Miller & Morgan O’Neill
Created by – Morgan O’Neill
Based On – JAG created by Donald P. Bellisario & NCIS by Donald P. Bellisario & Don McGill
Production/Distribution Companies – EndemolShine Australia, CBS Studios & Paramount+
Starring – Olivia Swann, Todd Lasance, Sean Sagar, Tuuli Narkle, Mavournee Hazel & William McInnes and Steve Vella, Mick Davies, Dean Povic, Romy Bartz, Nicholas Brown, Gerick Leora, Dorian Nkono, Lucas Fatches & Bradley Flett