Ryan Eggold

This week the confrontation between the Keen couple finally occurred and with that came answers to a long gestating mystery. The Pavlovich Brothers who kidnapped the daughter of a general in the pilot of the show make a return to kidnap a woman involved in a chemical weapons project called White Fog. Both plotlines help to remind us how far Lizzie and Red have come in their partnership and also spotlight how much they rely on each other.

The Blacklist is still a far from perfect show, but it seems to understand the groove it has made of itself and it seems to working. Hopefully it can keep this up going forward.

“The Judge” satisfies, but the foundation of the episode crumbles the more that time and thought are weighted against it.

The Blacklist, Season 1, Episode 9: “General Ludd” Written by Amanda Kate Shuman Directed by Stephen Surjik Airs Mondays on NBC at 10pm ET “General Ludd” can be chalked up as one of The Blacklist‘s more sub-par episodes. There is nothing remarkable or terrible about the episode as a whole. It settles for being merely serviceable, …