I’d always just assumed that NCIS was my generation’s Matlock. It stayed on TV only because a very devoted, older set of viewers watched even though it never got any awards or even got mentioned during award season. Then I come to find out that NCIS is big with the 18 to 49 demographic and huge with the 18 to 24 demographic and suddenly, for no reason I can actually articulate, I feel much, much better about being addicted to it.