Victoria Fenberg (No. 137)

Ressler and Keen share secrets. I don't care. Mom is still alive. I don't care. Aram is sleeping with a woman who intubated husband is in the next room. I only care because it is disgusting and distracting. I've grown tired of his schtick as the shy, uncertain guy who has trouble keeping his pants on. Oh, check out John Glenn's space capsule. The heist plot is really lame. Red wants some valuable little metal boxes and goes to a young woman who has been trading copies of valuable art pieces to finance some kid who got sick. I'm sorry. Lost interest in that one as well. I didn't mind that they spent more time on the separate plot and less on old Katarina, but it was just kind of dull.

I liked this episode only because it served as a minor distraction from the horrible subplot (now main plot, it seems) surrounding Liz's gullibility being written into the ground along with this obnoxious character who clearly isn't her mother. The Kate Bornstein cameo was really cool.

They said the tone would be lighter. The first 10 minutes were great. Most of the middle of the episode was really boring. It starts with a lot of reddington in the first 10 minutes so it looks like it will be that way and then reddington basically only has a few scenes in the episode until the last 10 minutes. And for some reason the episode ends with a scene with Aram and a eledy. I think it should have ended with red arriving on the island he will be on in the next episode. This just felt like set up for the next episode. Not the best mid season premiere . I hate inconsistant episodes that start out featuring Red prominantly and then don't be consistant the whole episode. This starts out looking like it's going to be like the episode smokey putnum. Greyson Blaise. Or Robert vesco Then it abruotly turns into a snooze fest Then reddington finally meets the blavklister in the last ten minutes. When he had only had a sparse two or three scenes in the middle of the episode. And that after he appeared in almost the whole beginning teaser of the episode. Please writers if your going to do that be cobsistant. It's starts out focusing completely on reddington and then drops off and becomes boring. I am trying to make a list of top 50 episodes. And also doing utube reviews. This is not a top 50 candidate And seriously only one actual scene with spader and Boone? And a phone call? What's going on? The show has been like that for a while The two "co stars" are barely in any scenes together. Some thing going on we should know about?

I knew this was going to be a lighter tone episode... that I didn't mind at all, but this episode was a little bit on the poor side. The scene structure of this epsiode was god awful, having seven minutes of straight Reddington at the start and then like five other scenes for the rest of the episode.

Secondly no fight scenes or ACTION sequences, even if it is a lighter tone episode it is a CRIME DRAMA MYSTERY - there should be some action.

The writing at times is god awful.. certain instances where there is a random reason added for Red to explain something to another character so that the audience can understand what the hell is happening... that happened quite a few times in this episode and the next one which I just sent a review on.. an example is 'oh your cornelius ruck..' how the hell did Red know that, why was that just randomly introduced...?

The ending was like a meme..? Aram and Elodie were talking and then for 10 seconds it showed them in bed hearing the ventator.. I mean was that a Joke or something ..........?

Some good scenes (not a lot) Dembes Birthday, Ukraine was interesting. Waffle Scene and Good Fashion (for once) the cast had some good clothing and not something sloppy.

I'm giving this episode a firm and unequivocal ONE. First of all, Boone is still in it. When Restler told her to "play dumb", the first thing that came to my mind was, "She doesn't have to play". Second, the my-mommy-is-a-Russian-spy degenerate saga continues and doesn't seem to be on the way out. It's time to bury this whole Katarina Rostova nonsence and concentrate entirely on the magnificent Reddington. And I REALLY don't care about Aram's hopping from foot to foot with the moral aspects of his love life. Once and for all, sleeping with a woman when her husband is dying on ventilator in the next room is BAD. Asking if it is is like asking whether it's okay to steel family silver from your friend's house. I'm adding one more point for the amazing James Spader. He is the only actor still keeping this show floating, but he can't do it forever. If dear Misters Creators want to have another season, they need to make changes FAST.