New Season, same bad ass Red. Who’s he going to kill next? 
They really should have named this the Red Reddington show.
Wiki - with the major characters and plots from Season 1 Useful if you aren’t up on the show. Probably some spoilers for season 1, be careful what you click if you are behind on your tv watching. There are detailed episode recaps under Show, Episodes.
Starts Tonight, Sept 22 at 9 Central after the Voice. Pop some popcorn, and pull up a chair. Lets discuss afterward.
Here we go. After waiting 5 months, I’m hoping it’s good.
Wow, they certainly wrote a character that is an equal match for Reddington. Right now it seems like this guy is even more ruthless and better prepared than Red.
Best Blacklist episode that I’ve seen. The last two episodes of season one were very good, but this had me on the edge of my seat for the entire hour. I won’t spoil it for anyone tonight.
Still like this show, but it requires an effort of will to suspend disbelief at times.
Not sure enough time has passed since last season for Lizzie to get her marriage annulled. I assume she had to serve Tom by publication, and in my state that takes 30 days, + time to retain counsel, draft pleadings…even assuming the FBI found a way to influence the family court judge…
Still, for what it is, this is a fun show.
The writing on this show is always a bit far fetched. They aren’t good with believable details. Like the twin that needed a handler to turn her evil with a record player. That was the one stupid moment in this episode for me. It was so unnecessary. Evil twin should have been a separate person.
I’m very excited to see how the story develops with Red’s ex wife. You don’t cast Mary Louise Parker in a one off hostage victim role. Her character is supposed to be recurring this season. Somehow, she’ll avoid getting chopped into pieces by Berlin.
I’m liking the changes this season. Red isn’t in complete control like he was last season. Liz has a few secrets of her own. She’s not nearly the push over that she was last season.
The only major plot hole tonight was trusting all those account numbers to just one person. That’s pretty hard to swallow. All she had to do was choke on a tuna fish sandwich and that bank was totally screwed. You have to have redundant backups with that kind of data. People are too fragile and unpredictable to put that much trust in them and their loyalties.
I’m liking Mossad Girl, but confused about her storyline. Last week, she captured Red apparently as part of some personal issue, but was ordered to let him go. This week, she’s working for/with him? And now Lizzie has a secret ally? The plot thickens…
Sadly we may be the only two people watching this show here…
Three. I just don’t have much to say. Spader good. Rest of show uneven. :rolleyes:
I agree. I only watched two episodes or so and loved Spader, but the female lead was so incredibly unlikeable that I dropped the series.
I can’t argue with your analysis, but James Spader is so good here, I’m willing to overlook the fact that almost everything about the show is completely unrealistic. I think the sole purpose of the show is to provide just enough of a framework for Spader to work in, and in that it’s successful.
Next week’s episode should be really good.
http://www.tvguide.com/news/paul-reubens-blacklist-1087641.aspx
I am watching. I marathon-ed season one on Netflix last week so I would be ready for Season 2. I agree Spader is a delight, Megan Boone is pathetic and the plots are somewhat ridiculous. But Spader is a delight so I am in.
Since the plots are ridiculous I should not pose these questions; but here goes:
Why would Lizzie need an annulment when she is a widow?
If she wanted an annulment wouldn’t the fact that her husband lied about his identity make it easy to get one?
Why would Ressler be required to visit an FBI shrink and not Keene? She killed her husband, he lied to her, he was a spy for some as yet unknown entity, etc.
Has anyone else noticed a similarity to Alias during the beginning of Season 1?
Tom Keene’s “brother” “falls” out a window in the hotel where he was registered under his fake name Craig Keene. Yet his brother was not notified, nothing in the paper on the news?
In the ep where Lizzie and Tom renew their wedding vows Tom’s “brother” officiates and makes reference to having performed the original ceremony. This seems another excellent reason for Lizzie to be able to easily obtain an annulment.
Yes I realize I am over analyzing.
I haven’t watched Alias, but I’ve been watching Fringe on Netflix. Between The Blacklist and Fringe, I noticed that J.R. Orci is a producer and writer for both shows, and his IMDB entry shows he performed the same roles for Alias. That could explain it.
Going back to something from the Season 1 thread: I’m curious about the number of comments about Megan Boone’s wig. I saw similar criticisms in a few reviews on Netflix. I’m a bit puzzled by the criticisms, because A) The wig was not at all obvious to me, and B) Who cares? Aren’t wigs kind of a staple of the business? Some of the criticism I read seemed to depend upon meta-knowledge that the actress has short hair IRL.
Thank you I should have checked IMDB
I agree wigs are a staple for actors; however they should not look like a wig. IMO last seasons wig was so outrageously fake looking it was a distraction.
It would have been great if they worked it into the script.
Red, “Lizzie what is wrong with your head?”
Lizzie, “I was undercover as a skinhead and you know uh it required shaving my head.”
Red, “Let me buy one for you that doesn’t look so. . . obvious.”
Lizzie, “Hey! Stay out of my life!”
Another watcher, after catching up on season 1 on Netflix. Given the lack of good new fare this season, Blacklist has made it into my weekly rotation. And I agree, after Spader it’s a mixed bag of average, mediocre, and bad.
I have never seen a show that manages “so good” and “so bad it’s good” at the same time quite like this one does.
Red at his most devious tonight. First he goes after the organ donor doctor to ultimately kill off a official thats opposing a deal to lease a shipping port. Then he finds a weak link in his syndicate that is prepared to betray him.
Anyone else seeing the similarities between Vic in The Shield and Red? Both are frantically trying to stay ahead of escalating events that we know will ultimately destroy them. Both roles work because of the brilliant acting of Michael Chiklis and James Spader. Theres no series without them.
I have to nitpick the organ doctor. First he’s this evil monster that repossesses a beating heart? Then at the end he’s pleading to save a cute little girl’s life? That’s a bit too extreme for me to swallow.
Just to clarify. It’s only Red and Vic that I’m comparing. I see that same methodical and ruthless approach in dealing with outside forces that ultimately will bring them down. Otherwise, The Shield clearly had superior secondary characters and writing.
It seems to me that if Red is an MLB All-Star, Vic is in Class-A ball. But if a few things had broken his way, then Vic definitely could’ve evolved into Red.
I missed the first season but then watched the first ep and loved it. A month or so later I had the oportunity to watch more so I watched about five more.
I started loving it less… introducing and resolving a plot line each episode started to get too hokey for me. [Why do major network shows think they have to do that anyway?]
At this point I think I’ll start in on the second season and my wife can catch me up on the history I may have missed… whaddayathink?