NCIS: Tony & Ziva Recent Casting Update Promises Even More Personal Drama for the Leads

NCIS: Tony & Ziva is set to arrive pretty soon, and the recent announcement regarding the spinoff’s cast gave fans a whole new reason to count days until the show is dropped on the streaming this fall.

Finding its characters in Europe several years after their separation, NCIS: Tony & Ziva will dive deeper into Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David’s professional and personal intertwined paths, especially since they now have their preteen daughter Tali as a number one priority.

The future series is yet to show how exactly Tony and Ziva’s relationships altered since they were forced to spend some time apart, and the casting update suggests there may indeed be some space for a big personal drama on the screen.

According to a big report dropped by Deadline last week, NCIS: Tony & Ziva added a bunch of new characters to its story, finally unveiling some more details about those whose roles were promised to have a lot to do with the leads’ job hardships.

Aside from revealing the truth about Tali’s British bodyguard and a mysterious Russian hacker, the report also suggested that a therapist would show up at some point.

According to the description, Terence Maynard is set to portray “a deeply experienced therapist, gentle and probing, Dr. Lang treats patients with severe traumas and helps them find comfort and agency.”

Before the news making it all pretty clear came around, NCIS: Tony & Ziva spent a long time hinting at a possibility of some trust issues that the reunited family would have to face sometime in the show.

Several weeks earlier, Ziva’s actress Cote de Pablo admitted that nothing would be that nice and easy for both Ziva and her daughter Tali since the latter had spent years away from her mother, convinced that she was dead, and by now would surely be pretty cautious once she realized that Ziva had (unintentionally, but still) lied to her.

The fact that the couple is likely to opt for therapy sessions with Dr. Lard may come as a confirmation that Tali’s trust issues, and probably Tony and Ziva’s personal problems too, are just too much to handle on their own and thus suggest that a third party’s intervention is about to bring more intriguing twists and turns into the plot line.

NCIS: Tony & Ziva will be released on Paramount+ this fall.