14): Conclusion’ found time to incorporate the series’ central question surrounding what it means to cross an ethical boundary, in the name of what one feels is a moral obligation. Despite everything that was coming to a head, ‘Alexander Kirk (No. One of the things The Blacklist has always been good at, is managing to never take its eye off the central theme of right and wrong, guilt or innocence and justice vs. Now we know why he barely shed a tear at her funeral and did not hesitate to be as flirty with his marks. THE BLACKLIST - Season: 3 - Pictured: James Spader as Raymond ‘Red’ Reddington - (Photo by: Sandro/NBC)Įver since Liz “died”, Tom’s behavior has run absolutely counter to how one would a expect a heartbroken widow, turned overnight single father, to be. #2 Red’s Connection to Liz Revealed: Another season finale has come and gone with no pertinent information that puts us any closer to learning the true reason Red stepped into Liz’s life.
Whether that actually happened or not, still remains a mystery.
#3 A Status Update on Liz’s Ex-Boyfriend/Doctor: Via flashback it was revealed how Nik (Peter Marek) helped orchestrate the faking of Liz’s death and that he foretold Red would kill him for “failing” Lizzie. Two of the five wishes that did not come true, were also two of the most pivotal. #4 The Top 5 Wishes that Were Not Granted Kaplan (Susan Blommaert) colluded to fake her death. #1 The Return of Liz: Towards the end of the episode, Liz (Megan Boone) was revealed to be alive and well. Disagree or agree with his tactics, he was pretty much restored to his season 1 self.
#4 Red’s Full Return to Power: For the first time in a long time, Red (James Spader) was back in complete control. How The Blacklist: Redemption will aim to resolve why he would not be able to eventually escape his captors and reunite with his family, is still up for viewer speculation. While the mechanics of Tom’s (Ryan Eggold) abduction were questionable, his exit makes sense. #5 A Reasonable Explanation for Tom’s Exit: This was 97% achieved so we are counting it. In Blacklist there is humour, excitement, action, drama, and in Spader just utterly compelling acting, with honourable mentions for the co-stars, particularly Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison, Mozhan Marnò and Susan Blommaert.Out of the Top 5 things we wanted to see in the finale, three of them came true. When Red remarks in S3 E10 to the excellent baddie David Strathairn that he would be the first American official ever to be tried for war crimes - this is a true statement.And when Strathairn as the head of a fictious section of the CIA states that they have brought down governments in less than 3 hours, this is also likely to be true. Spader speaks for the outsider, the rest of the world as it looks on at America. only if you have watched from the very beginning, a sort of reward for wading through all that c***). I think what has happened is that Spader has given such a stellar set of performances from S1E1 that the other actors have upped their respective games, as well as the script-writers, and the rest of the production team, to the extent that this is now compulsive viewing (i.e.