Yes, NCIS is comfort TV for me, too. I really just sort of like the characters; a lot of the arcs are lost on me, because I've watched so much in syndication.

This last ep, though, I was stunned by how much that dude looked like Abby! I need to go check and see whether they're related. It was spooky.

Oddly, he was played by her ex-boyfriend. Um, I follow her on Twitter. Which, sadly, does not tell me how to get my skin to look as good as hers.

Yeah, they really did look similar. I was really surprised.

I was stunned by how much that dude looked like Abby

Wrod! I thought "Good lord, is that CGI? Does she have a brother who acts?"

I'm sort of hoping Abby turns out to be the daughter of someone a little creepy so we can have some nice "Is my spookiness due to heredity, and if so, should I be worried?"

But how cute was it that Abby's brother rescues puppies?

Oddly, he was played by her ex-boyfriend.

That's wild!

But how cute was it that Abby's brother rescues puppies?

Positively adorable.

USA is having a McGee NCIS marathon, and there are some really good eps, including the usual McGee-centric eps ("Witness," "Probie," "Twisted Sister," and "Cover Story"), but also a few that feature others ("Grace Period," where Paula Cassidy's team is killed by a suicide bomber, and "Smoked," with the serial killer found smoked in the school chimneystack).

I'm surprised they're not doing the one where McGee is trapped in the women's prison.

I think that's on next.

Castle just made me miss White Collar.

Castle was fun. Also, I was trying to place the actrees who played the artist who found the body, and I'm pretty sure that it's the woman Angel was talking to in She who asked him if he wanted to dance.