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The Blacklist Ep. 1.18 “Milton Bobbit”: Ensuring Life Goes On After Death
The fascinating thing about The Blacklist this week was watching Elizabeth Keene slowly learn more about who her husband really is. Just like last week believing in something or doing something with conviction was the theme and it made for a really solid episode. Milton Bobbit’s scheme was to get terminally ill people to kill important people via suicide attempt. This act involves killing someone and yourself along with them. In return for their suicide, the family of the terminally ill individual would be provided for after their death. More
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The Blacklist Ep. 1.17 “Ivan No. 88” Not Quite Off the Tracks
The scene viewers have been begging to see play out finally occurs this week- Elizabeth Keen finally finds her husband’s secret spy shed and learns that he has been lying from the beginning about who he really is. While that scene may have been the payoff for viewers who wanted confrontation between the two newlyweds, Red’s mission to discover copycat Ivan’s plans for a tech device is what keeps this episode from going off the rails. More
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The Blacklist Ep. 1.16 “Mako Tanida” finally brings the show into focus
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. More
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The Blacklist, Ep. 1.15 “The Judge” satisfies, but barely
“The Judge” satisfies, but the foundation of the episode crumbles the more that time and thought are weighted against it. More
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The Blacklist, Ep. 1.14 “Madeline Pratt” looks towards Keen’s past
Another episode of The Blacklist come and gone and it’s certainly improving in some ways, but the show still doesn’t feel like substantial or noteworthy television that anyone should be devoting time to. More
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The Blacklist, Ep. 1.13 “The Cyprus Agency” continues to frustrate
The most essential and important part of a television show is having characters that the viewer inherently cares about and whose interests or concerns they care about as much as the characters themselves do. Without that, the show becomes a house of cards that grows evermore unstable as time goes on. Sure, the story drives the episodes from one point to another, but emotional connections aren’t made with the story or, if they are, it’s to a much lesser degree. No connections are made with characters and The Blacklist has created a story that is adequate with characters that, outside of James Spader’s Red, are completely weak and as close to one-dimensional as it gets. More
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The Blacklist, Ep. 3.12: “The Alchemist” continues its bad streak
If ever there was one word to sum up The Blacklist, that word would have to be frustrating. It’s not frustrating for the fact that it’s bad; that would be understandable and even acceptable. No, The Blacklist is frustrating because it is occasionally good and even when it’s bad, glimpses of how the show could be good shine through and that might be worse. It’s almost as if the producers are taunting its audience with a look at how things on the show could be, but probably never will. More
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The Blacklist Ep. 1.11, “The Good Samaritan Killer” frustratingly shows promise
When the new shows for fall 2013 were being announced, it seemed all but guaranteed that The Blacklist would the standout from the bunch. It had a great lead in the form of James Spader and a solid episodic premise that just might border on intrigue, but instead, The Blacklist proved to be consistent at one thing among others: disappointment. That was true for the first half of the season, at least. Could this new year mean a better, more improved show? It doesn’t seem likely. More
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The Blacklist, Ep. 1.10, “Anslo Garrick, Part 2”
This first half of The Blacklist’s first season has been, at best, rough. It’s had some ups, it’s had a lot of downs, but, by the end, the best that can be said is: “It’s growing on me”. Growing like a piece of fungus, but growing, nonetheless. More
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The Blacklist, Ep. 3.09, “Anslo Garrick, Part 1” is exciting, but feels like a stall
In the first of two parts, “Anslo Garrick, Part 1” has everyone’s favorite international criminal Red (James Spader) in need of protection from Anslo Garrick, a spurned colleague from Red’s past. Garrick ,somehow, knows that Red is working with the FBI and knows precisely what they’d do with Red if word got out that someone wanted Red’s head on a silver platter. More
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The Blacklist, Ep. 1.08, “General Ludd” falters with an unexplored villain
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, […] More
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The Blacklist, Ep. 1.07, “Frederick Barnes” shows the series’ inconsistencies
The Blacklist has proven over seven episodes that it excels at being consistently inconsistent from week to week. Some episodes make the show look like it’s a lost cause that should never be viewed by anyone ever. If that’s all the show would ever be, not a problem. Just pack it in and move on to the next thing. The problem is that The Blacklist reaches moments of actual excellence. It somehow tricks the viewer into thinking that they’re watching something of value until the next episode, where the show will likely spin around and smack you for thinking such silly thoughts. That’s just the way it is with The Blacklist: some reach pretty high on the quality scale and others fall well below that mark. More
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