This is a fantastic series, but the set is a piece of garbage. Some seasons were in a plastic case and some in a case inside a sleeve, season 9 was NOT WRAPPED AND SEALED disc 6 of season 9 was badly scratched. This set looked like someone randomly grabbed one of each season and called it a set. I am not sure if some of the other seasons had been opened and resealed. I don't appreciate paying $187 for a bunch of mismatched DVD's with at least one damaged. I sent it back

A big fan of the NCIS Series as well as my wife and with a lot of garbage on TV now it's nice to watch some decent TV and Binge at the same time. We've purchased Seasons 1-8 thus far and each DVD has played flawlessly and looks great on out 65' Screen. All came in a plastic outer case in which the separate DVDs where themselves in a plastic case. Great protection. Highly recommend the entire set!!

The success of a program like "West Wing" depends upon the viewer's seeing the key players as a real team who know each other, care about each other, and work together in a real-world way. If the scripts are such that the actors cannot become that team, the show will fail, an event that almost took place on "West Wing" after Season 4, when Aaron Sorkin, the vision and writer of the show, left. A group of new writers with almost no history of participation in the show produced some scripts that nearly tore the original vision apart.

Happily, the vision, the team, and the excitement are at their best in Season 2, with the 2-part opener that not only deals with the attempted assassination of the president in the present, and how the team was formed in vignettes from the past. The shows only get better as the season progresses. (It is personally interesting to note the subtle differences between Seasons 2 and 3. It was before Season 3 began that the terrible events of 9-11 took place. After 9-11, the show became subtly different.)

The DVDs themselves are excellent in quality, although trying to read the minuscule print that identifies which season and which side of the DVD one wants is difficult unless you have the vision of a hawk! I bought the set because I wore out my first set. The only flaw in the packaging is that all the DVDs open up like an accordion fold, which makes them much harder to handle. I wish they could have done them as they did for Seasons 4 and following: put the set into book form, so it is easier to handle.

First of all, understand that I am not the most enthusiastic TV series viewer. I spent much of my adult life without watching any television and only recently began to watch TV regularly - mostly in response to very dark and very cold Alaskan windows. So, take what I say with that in mind.

I stumbled across NCIS during the 2014 season; intrigued, I bought Season 1 and I enjoyed it. There are two episodes in Season 2 that I have really enjoyed, Doppleganger (the parallel team idea was very entertaining), Chained (giving good play time to DiNozzo), and Witness (show casing McGee). Lt Jane Doe also was well thought out with few dangling plot devices.

But I am finding some things I don't like in Season 2 that are either a product of different writing or something about the game plan I didn't notice before. Tony and Caitlin, especially, come off as stupid, when Gibbs always knows the score, for example. Sasha Alexander's character is frequently reduced to nothing but snide comments on Tony much of the time (no wonder she wanted out of her contract). Then, there are the twist endings that aren't fully explained to my way of thinking. For example, in the episode title, Black Water, a car was pulled from a lake with decomposing skeletons and a bullet hole lodged in the door. The Twist at the end was the bullet hole was exposed to water for less time than the rest of the metal in the car. Question - how did the perpetrator fire the bullet into the side of the car - haul the car out, fire the bullet, then let it roll back into the pond? Did he somehow fire underwater? You see my point.

But, having said that - I still like series. Overall, I find it more entertaining than many and will probably keep buying the seasons right up to the most recent. It is a comfortable way to spend an evening.

Team NCIS has been a vertable staple in Our Home.From "Yankee White" to The Cliff Hanger of Season 8's Ending.Mark Harmon is as Self~Effacing as They Get.Pauley Perette, a Doll.Michael Weatherly as good an "Ad Libber" in Decades of Cinema.Sean Murray is So Cute! The "double Lives" of an Alter~Ego w/o a Super~Ego.Cote De Pablo winning Us All after Sasha Alexander's abrupt leaving to "Rizzoli and Isles".David McCallum,Brian Dietzen and Rockey Carroll are the Best Second String off a Football Field in Ions.Honorable mentions to Lauren Holly and Muse Watson for the "Best Fight Out" since the "OK Coral scene in Tombstone", w/Kurt Russell,et tal.Those Behind the Scenes make All look Effortless. Really Do Not Believe William Webb as Lead of Photography gets enough accolades. Diamond Farnsworth or Larry Fuentes either.So Many make this Show the Number 1 on the "Tiffany Network" every Tuesday night for now going on their 9th Season.Watch when Bored,Sad,Happy. Many, Hunny has not seen,so allow to view w/o giving Anything Away! Oh I have to nibble my bottom lip.The Veritable Whose Who on Screen All the Time.The Second String are Never seen Enough,yet when We see Them,Boy We Never Forget! Hope a Long Run with All Actresses/Actors on Now and as Guests.Thank You to Everyone that has made Our Viewing Pleasure Beyond a Tuesday Night! CBS,NCIS,Amazon and the Many Partners that Sold these individually to Us~Thank You!!!

This is a show that continually surprises and pleases. What Don Bellisario has created with this series defies genre at times. It's either an action series with great humor (bawdy at times) or a comedy with action and mystery; all brought together by a wonderful ensemble...that gets turned over in "Twilight".

But I digress. What we see in Season 2 is the continued development of the characters; getting to know them a little more--seeing their quirks, and their little secrets. We begin to see a little more of Mark Harmon's Gibbs--going beyond the coffee and his ex-wives, finding more of his backstory. The relationship between Tony and Kate--the friendly rivalry that they have (Of course, Tony finding the picture in Florida of Kate in the wet t-shirt gets him even for his kissing the transvestite in Season 1...). Bringing Sean Murray into the fold, and watching the subtleties as Tim McGee somehow combines his nerdiness with learning to work the field. There's always Pauley Perrette's Abby--an absolute scream for her smarts and energy--and the great David McCallum's Ducky. Plus, getting to meet Ducky's mother in "The Meat Puzzle" (Somehow, Nina Foch's line to Sasha Alexander--"Let me see your knickers"--is going to stick with me for a lot of the wrong reasons)was a treat.

But the last two episodes--"SWAK", and especially the magnificent "Twilight"--shook the series. "SWAK" sets up the possibility of mortality on the team; "Twilight" follows through. The return of Rudolph Martin's unstable Mossad double agent, Ari Haswari, was always kept open through the second half of Season 1, and was brought back to the viewer's mind in "An Eye For An Eye". But the death of Kate--stunning as it was--was a good precursor for setting up how Season 3 played out.

If I were Bellisario and I wanted to change something in Season 2, I would have brought Jessica Steen's Paula Cassidy into play more. The Guantanamo NCIS agent who left DiNozzo "interested" (All viewers at once--"WHAT WOMAN DOESN'T??!?")should probably have seen more than one episode ("Heart Break")--if only to watch Tony moon over her.

As Season 1's finale led to the underlying tone and eventuality of Season 2, the finale of Season 2 led into how Season 3 played out. But THAT's another story...

they were bought from dffrent reputable sellers & some arrived in shrink wrap brand-new even !.., have managed to get all 9 seasons used & new now for around $100 or so & " that includes shipping ".., & havent even started watching the 2nd batch that arrived here today: july 15th, 2013 .., only lack seasons 10 & 11 which i dont think are out yet on dvd - but i cud be wrong on that part.., the only other thing i wonder about is if " cbs will be able to have a season 12 or not ?? " ..

one cast member is alredy leaving the show & the bulletin didnt say if that person wud finish-out filming of season 11 or not OR if their' character gets killed-off in some way or just retires from their role on the show & if there is to be a season 12.., wud they go on w/o them or find someone-else to replace that person for that one season or not..

I've only watched one or two partial episodes in the past. No idea why since Mark Harmon is awesome, but there it is. Began watching season 2, and could not stop! Cop-style drama, action, and lots of humor (dry and sarcastic just like I like). I could go on and on about all the many things I like about this show, but I won't because I don't have the time and there are many other reviews on here that have done or will do that. I'm just going to say watch the show, enjoy it, and watch more. The cast in this season is awesome (did I mention Mark Harmon). I'm not surprised that it's one of the highest rated and most watched shows out there. Oh, and did I mention that it's not full of smut and language. Yep, awesome.