The Blacklist

The Blacklist, NBC’s endlessly twisty procedural about criminal mastermind Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) and his elaborate plot to help the FBI catch most-wanted criminals in service of his own mysterious personal agenda, is one of the most consistently entertaining dramas left on broadcast TV. And now that Season 8 is nearly here (Friday, Nov.
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The Blacklist rarely gets credit for its weirdness, but maybe this episode, the Season 7 finale, will be the one to turn the tide. Much has been made (rightfully) about the quarantine-induced decision to complete the half-finished episode with “graphic novel”-style animation and accelerate some of the plot lines to function as a thrilling season
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Despite its intense focus on the “family” drama between Reddington (James Spader) and Liz (Megan Boone), The Blacklist has more successfully fleshed out supporting characters than in the early years. This is a function of being a long-running series with 22 hours to fill, but that reality doesn’t always dictate that detours from the main
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If last week’s midseason premiere of The Blacklist demonstrated how the show, like its main characters, can frustratingly avoid previous seismic events, this week’s suggested a way to alleviate that frustration: remove most of the cast altogether. Outside of a brief kicker at Agnes’ ballet performance, “Cornelius Ruck” jettisoned everyone in the main cast except
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The supporting character spotlight continues on The Blacklist. After Aram’s odyssey into the dark heart of one-percenter death parties in last week’s episode, “Kuwait” pushed Harold (Harry Lennix) to center stage with a quintessential story, told in a quintessential way. A colleague thought to be dead suddenly surfaced very much alive, and very much holding
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One of the purest pleasures of watching a long-running procedural is the episode that gives the spotlight to a supporting character. In the crime and espionage genres, this maneuver typically throws the tech experts — the nerds — into the field, where they’re fundamentally out of their element. Until they’re not, of course. Now seven
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At the Tribeca TV Festival on Thursday, film and TV great James Spader sat down with moderator Whoopi Goldberg for a conversation about his always-unpredictable, 40-plus-year career, from Sex, Lies, and Videotape to Boston Legal to his current role as cosmopolitan criminal mastermind Raymond “Red” Reddington on NBC’sThe Blacklist, which returns for its seventh season
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