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‘The Blacklist’ Season 6 Review: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Season 6 of The Blacklist was a wild ride from start to finish. We had the fallout from Liz’s big betrayal of Red, a new government conspiracy leading all the way up to the President, Mozhan Marno’s exit from the…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×21 Review: ‘Anna McMahon’

The Blacklist came in hot with the penultimate episode of season 6, and it’s all leading to an explosive season finale. Red and the Task Force finally uncovered the plot against the United States orchestrated by Anna McMahon, taking possession…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×20 Review: Something Straight Out of ‘The X Files’

The Blacklist‘s “Guillermo Rizal” went all sci-fi, complete with a mad scientist and kidnapped groups of triplets who’s DNA had been modified to create a race of superior humans. Sounds like a new era episode of The X Files right?…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×18 and 19 Review: The Truth Revealed

So it finally happened. We now know Red’s true identity and why he’s been keeping it from Liz for all these years. The Red we’ve always known is really a man named Ilya, Katarina Rostova’s lover. Ilya changed his identity…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×17 Review: “The Third Estate”

In The Blacklist‘s “The Third Estate” the Task Force took on a group of criminals going after the children of America’s richest families, but there was a bit of a plot twist. The children of these families weren’t actually being…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×16 Review: ‘Lady Luck’

When Red gets betrayed by someone close to him he reacts violently, and unfortunately Smokey Putnam was on the receiving end of his wrath. Smokey, played by Michael Aronov, has been one of the best recurring side characters on The…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×13 and 14 Review: The Osterman Umbrella Company

Not a single fan of The Blacklist ever wants to see Aram hurting, but man did it make for one of the best episodes The Blacklist has had in years. The first hour was a lighthearted treasure hunt lead by…

‘The Blacklist’ Renewed for Season 7!

Well Blacklisters, we can all stop wondering now that we’ve heard the news, The Blacklist has been renewed for season 7! The original cast is set to return, so a whole new series of Red’s antics with the Task Force…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×12 Review: ‘Bastien Moreau: Conclusion (No.20)’

So the “will Red be executed on death row” fiasco is finally over, and The Blacklist can finally get back to Red and The Task Force taking down criminals together, which is the reason we all watch. It turns out…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×11 Review: “Bastien Moreau (No. 20)”

I’ve tried to keep the intensity of my personal feelings about the events of this season out of these posts, but I can’t do it anymore. This episode was the final nail in the coffin. I am absolutely furious with…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×10 Review: The Escape Plan

Well, for one minute there it looked like Red might have finally saved himself, almost flawlessly executing a brilliant prison escape plan, but leave it to Liz to mess that up too. Steps away from Dembe’s helicopter and freedom, Red…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×08 and 6×09 Review: The truth comes out, well…sort of

A lot happened in this 2 hour The Blacklist event, so we’re going to have to unpack all of it one piece at a time. There were some big revelations that finally shed some light on all the secrets that…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×07 Review: Entomophobia, the Fear of Bugs

This week’s episode of The Blacklist, titled “General Shiro,” was one of the weakest the show has produced in its six season run. The story barely moved forward, we had to suffer another appearance from Glenn the DMV employee (one of…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×06 Review: Lies, lies, and more lies

We’ve seen Liz lie to the Task Force plenty of times, but she went way beyond what she’s ever done before this time. Instead of just asking for their help, Liz told the Task Force that Red had given them…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×05 Review: The smoking gun

So Red’s trial is over, and surprise surprise the court didn’t rule in his favor. Red is now facing the death penalty, all thanks to Liz. What’s so cold blooded about this is that Liz knew exactly what to point…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×04 Review: “The Pawnbrokers”

Never has it been more apparent than in The Blacklist episode “The Pawnbrokers” that James Spader is the driving force behind the show. It was an incredibly engaging episode and that’s all thanks to him. There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×03 Review: Trial of the Century

I think we were all hoping there would be some loophole to get Red out of police custody without something catastrophic happening, but it’s looking more and more like that won’t be the case. For a minute it seemed like…

‘The Blacklist’ 6×01 and 6×02 Review: Betrayal

The season 5 finale reveal that the Red we know isn’t actually the real Raymond Reddington left no room for doubt that it would be a serious game changer. Personally, I still don’t understand why Red’s true identity is such…

‘The Blacklist’ 5×22 Review: ‘Sutton Ross’

The identity of the bones in the duffle bag was finally revealed in the season 5 finale, “Sutton Ross,” and it’s definitely a game changer, albeit one that the fans called ages ago. The Raymond Reddington we’ve known since the…

‘The Blacklist’ 5×21 Review’: ‘Lawrence Dane Devlin’

The last episode before the season finale, “Lawrence Dane Devlin” was an action packed one, and it came with a lot of consequences. The Task Force (Aram specifically) was able to rescue Samar just in the nick of time, but…

‘The Blacklist’ 5×20 Review: Nicholas T. Moore

This week’s Blacklist, “Nicholas T. Moore” was definitely a strange one. It was a Blacklist meets The X Files type of episode. The cult that kidnapped Samar was an incredibly creepy and violent one who labelled anyone outside their community as…