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Date Posted: 13:06:20 10/06/11 Thu
Author: Islandgirl
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Something odd on "NCIS" (vague spoilers for 10/4 ep)

What did everybody think of Lily Tomlin as McGee's grandmother in the recent ep of "NCIS"? I thought she did a good job, but I just thought she was *WAY* too young to be cast as the grandmother of a man in his 30s. (Sean Murray, the actor who plays McGee, is 33; will turn 34 next month. And I assume the character is supposed to be about the same age, as he's been on the show for nearly a decade, and was an adult when he began.)

This is the opposite of the problem I usually have with "grandmother" casting. Usually they have a woman who looks like she's about 80 cast as the grandmother of a preschooler, which I think is absurd. But I also think it's unlikely that a woman in her early 70s would have a grandson in his mid-30s.

Lily Tomlin is 72. So I'm not saying it would be biologically impossible for a woman that age to have a 33-year-old grandson. If the grandmother and mother had both been only about 19 when they had their first child (and if we presume this particular grandchild is the oldest one), it could happen. It just seemed jarring.

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