After 8 seasons, I am going to tough it out to the end. I agree with many of the negative comments about MB, and the more recent ones regarding the Ressler and Boone storyline. However, I'm going to continue watching until the end, because, personally, I can't get enough of Reddington AND Dembe.
33 Reviews
Red's character is simply iconic
jon-2264329 May 2021
The episode was fast with the feeling of a movie thriller
The story of Liz and Resler makes no sense and feels too artificial, I would skip their entire storyline
I watch because I'm used to, and I like most characters, but I think this show can be much better with better writing, which for me is the weak part of the show.
Not a spoiler: Boone acting in this episode is dreadful
boy_afraid6 June 2021
I don't know how she does it, but her acting gets worse with every passing episode. Her whispering voice like a TV soap opera actress from the 60', her "wooden" face, everything about her is annoying.
Let's face it: the only moments that still make The Blacklist a decent TV show is when Spader takes the screen. We had a mastercalss on acting last chapter with the Bingo scene. BUT as soon as he leaves the screen, is like taking a Valium.
The FBI team makes Scooby Doo looks smart. Townsend is a joke. Everything is laughable except Spader and to some extent Dembe and Glen's Mother.
I do feel sorry for James Spader.
Let's face it: the only moments that still make The Blacklist a decent TV show is when Spader takes the screen. We had a mastercalss on acting last chapter with the Bingo scene. BUT as soon as he leaves the screen, is like taking a Valium.
The FBI team makes Scooby Doo looks smart. Townsend is a joke. Everything is laughable except Spader and to some extent Dembe and Glen's Mother.
I do feel sorry for James Spader.
Liz accepts no blame
mmonnin-860662 June 2021
Liz sits on her high horse claiming all the people Red killed. Yes he killed her adopted father who was suffering and he killed her mother who lied to Liz and didn't even tell her who she was for weeks before kidnapping Liz herself. Her mother also kidnapped Red and tortured him besides having Liz help her kidnap Dom. Liz claims Red killed Dom and Tom yet she was a crucial element in Dom dying when she kidnapped him. As for Tom, Red begged her not to go after the bones but was ignored and the end result was Tom dying. She also had Red put on death row and was minuted from being executed and he forgave her. She is a hypocrite who wants to blame Red for things she has either done or her actions led to people's deaths.
And when she kept Tom locked in a boat for months and didn't tell anyone was was ok but she can't respect Red's wanting to keep secrets. Again hypocritical.
And when she kept Tom locked in a boat for months and didn't tell anyone was was ok but she can't respect Red's wanting to keep secrets. Again hypocritical.
Great episode - but Liz?
jade-ov-arcc-159-5546365 October 2021
I am so sick of hearing Liz blame Reddington for every bad thing that's ever happened and every person who has died, without accepting ANY of the responsibility herself. In fact, I'm sick of Liz, period. However, I too, like reviewer 'Here until the end', I will stick it out because of Red and Dembe. They are too brilliant to leave behind.
OH PLEASE STOP with the silly Liz soliloquys!
jeersNcheers29 May 2021
Soliloquys last week and this week?! Oh my goodness, the writers could not have come up with a better way to showcase Boone's weakness as an actress.
I would have given this episode a 10 if not for Liz's major role. She just doesn't have the acting chops to pull off a major role. She belongs on Lifetime or Hallmark. Top notch acting on this episode, except for her. As usual.
I would have given this episode a 10 if not for Liz's major role. She just doesn't have the acting chops to pull off a major role. She belongs on Lifetime or Hallmark. Top notch acting on this episode, except for her. As usual.
Poorly acted filler episode
kstorma-8828329 May 2021
Surrounded by Townsend!
ZegMaarJus6 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This episode begins with Townsend, he hears that Rhys has been killed and Liz has been arrested by the Taskforce. Liz and Ressler their convoy got attacked, they crashed on a concrete block. Ressler is heavily wounded. Liz and Ressler go further on foot. Red arranged medical help for Ressler and a save place for Liz. Ressler is in surgery, he is stable but his lung isn't in good shape. Liz got ubducted by Bino. Red saved Liz, he shot Bino and his guards to death. Townsend arrives and surrounds Red, Liz and Dembe. Nice Episode of The Blacklist Season 8, again a good episode. Red saved Liz just in time. But now the battle with Townsend begins!
The show is good - but Liz is annoying
girlonyork8 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I've given Liz a very wide berth and I've tried to be very understanding of her situation.
But she's acting like such a petulant child. After Townsend effectively turned against her, she didn't once stop and think that perhaps things aren't as straightforward as it seems?
The fact that Red risked his life to save her yet again after all that has happened doesn't seem to matter to her. Also, I hate the way she's corrupted the once straight-and-narrow Ressler.
Remove her or change the storyline, make her repent for all that she's done and maybe she'll be back in the viewers' good graces.
But she's acting like such a petulant child. After Townsend effectively turned against her, she didn't once stop and think that perhaps things aren't as straightforward as it seems?
The fact that Red risked his life to save her yet again after all that has happened doesn't seem to matter to her. Also, I hate the way she's corrupted the once straight-and-narrow Ressler.
Remove her or change the storyline, make her repent for all that she's done and maybe she'll be back in the viewers' good graces.
overall a pretty good episode, except liz
paoloeuvrard27 July 2021
Good ol' nice and entertaining episodes, dark and suspenseful. But Elizabeth « whining » Keen is insufferable, will someone please shoot her soon? That would be a great relief, as her stupidity is taking the serie down a big notch.
When will she understand a simple thing?
dattaakash-3705510 August 2021
She got really no iq. Reddington trying again and again save her, she got no idea that this man is friend. Saying over and over that a secret might put a life in danger. Ok, if i were her, i would have looked into the secrets, try to get them from reddington, but never believe a woman, whom i thought died a long ago, says a bunch of things that i can't verify. Atleast i won't resist when he is trying to save me from a chess shop.
Lukas Reiter is King!
stephmctitans29 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Absolutely amazing episode! This is what I've longed for, Liz and Ressler were beautiful! She loves him, already knew it! Ressler was amazing, love him. Love the genuine feelings from Liz, she was so pure! This needed to happen to bring her back. Can't wait for more. Love Ressler is the bridge to bring Liz and red back together like family! Thank you the blacklist!!!!
Keen, time to choose your side!
cjonesas16 February 2022
Episode 19: A filler episode with good acting, mildly romantic two-sided and one-sided scenes, suspenseful though a little artificial flow and the feel of dragging that is still there, stretching Keen's journey thin, who's basically taking Reddington down with her. That's the feel of the episode.
Three more left and because of the writers' poor job, the outcome is foggy.
That is not a true The Blacklist episode (because of Keen and her situation), which have extended to the entirety of this season up to now.
Three more left and because of the writers' poor job, the outcome is foggy.
That is not a true The Blacklist episode (because of Keen and her situation), which have extended to the entirety of this season up to now.
Not sure how much more of Liz I can stomach
LodgeDweller29 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
If you're pro-Liz or looking for Keenler stuff, you'll probably enjoy this one. If that sounds like you, save yourself the stress of reading this week's little rant-view.
After a mostly fun episode last week that rid us of Skip, Esi, and the lingering under developed, shoe horned in half sister, this week is a bland adventure. Starring Elizabeth "Red joyfully murdered everyone I love and everything bad is his fault" Keen, and Donald "I have no self respect or personality outside of longing for Liz" Ressler. Yipee.
This is another episode that I have no desire to ever watch again. I can honestly say before season 8, there were zero episodes that I would skip over in a rewatch. Each one felt integral in some way, be it plot developments, character building, or various fun stuff. This was another season 8 dud. Liz wines about Red and blames him for murdering people who were either killed trying to protect her, or were killed by Townsend because she was stupid enough to get involved with him and drag those people with her. If I have to hear her cry about what a good person Esi was one more time, I might scream. Say she was a good FRIEND, I can live with that. Liz seems to be forgetting about Skip already, and I will happily do the same. Anyway, Ressler gets shot (by the almighty Townsend's people) while trying to transport Liz into custody. The most interesting thing about this is he appears to be bleeding out a rust color substance. So we have a character that has been assassinated to the point of losing all sympathy with a good chunk of the audience trying to save a character they have barely given any personality to over the course of eight seasons. I'd rather watch Aram and Agnes make paper airplanes, Park have another violent breakdown, or Cooper get an eye exam.
Of course Red has a solution to help, but even his go-to guy for this, is terrified of the great and powerful Townsend. I've been over Townsend since his second appearance, but if he kills Liz and then Red spends the next season or 2 hunting him down, I can live with that. Alas, that seems about as likely as Ressler suddenly getting a personality, or Liz taking responsibility for some of the screwed up things in her life.
Liz's confession of something she interprets as love to an unconscious Ressler had no warmth or sincerity to it. It sounded more like someone confessing something along the lines of having broken a toy when they were kids, or having been the one to scratch the car door. There is no romantic chemistry between them. I get that in a way, once upon a time, they could/would have made sense, but with the lack of chemistry and Liz's continued reckless stunts, nothing about this rings true. It feels gross and cheap. It feels like a disservice to Ressler to have him roped into a relationship with this delusional fugitive who has used and fooled him repeatedly all season. There could have been a better way to get them together it wouldn't have made my skin crawl, but instead Liz has been trashed because "Mommy said that Reddington man is bad. Mommy who was supposed to be dead, appeared from nowhere and lied to my face for weeks. She can be trusted!"
No one's saying anyone on this show has to be a saint, that would be dull. It is a deeply gray world on The Blacklist. But they went overboard on having Liz go rogue in this one sided feud with Red. It would be one thing if she took an ounce of responsibility or acknowledged some of this is her own doing, but she continues to blame Red and even name dropped poor dead Tom -at this point I'm glad he and Samar are free of the wonky writing on this show- tonight, mentioning people in her life not being as they appear. I wonder if this is foreshadowing that Liz herself isn't what she appears and doesn't even know it. Perhaps Liz is N-13! And Red is the Easter Bunny! Cooper is Santa, and Ressler is Pinocchio!
Not enough of Red and Dembe to distract away from the tragedy that is Liz and Ressler. Needed more Aram too. Last week's episode felt big and important, this felt like a weird time for filler and awkward fan service for the Keenler shippers. I thought you had to care about both characters in these ships people obsess over. If these people really cared about Ressler they'd want him to have some dignity and self respect. I'd think they'd want him to stand up against Liz's bullcrap instead of "put them together no matter what it takes". Season 3 Ressler was a pain but he had guts! Season 8 Ressler is a sap and a schmuck. It's sad. This season is so uneven it's disheartening. Still can't bring myself to go lower than a 5.
Join me next week as I vent about the answers Red says he's finally giving Liz! We are Charlie Brown, the writers are Lucy, and answers are the football. I'm not even trying to kick anymore, I just enjoy the good and come here to have cathartic rants about the not so good. I likely won't tune out unless they kill off Red or Dembe, but Liz is seriously testing my will to watch without fast forwarding.
After a mostly fun episode last week that rid us of Skip, Esi, and the lingering under developed, shoe horned in half sister, this week is a bland adventure. Starring Elizabeth "Red joyfully murdered everyone I love and everything bad is his fault" Keen, and Donald "I have no self respect or personality outside of longing for Liz" Ressler. Yipee.
This is another episode that I have no desire to ever watch again. I can honestly say before season 8, there were zero episodes that I would skip over in a rewatch. Each one felt integral in some way, be it plot developments, character building, or various fun stuff. This was another season 8 dud. Liz wines about Red and blames him for murdering people who were either killed trying to protect her, or were killed by Townsend because she was stupid enough to get involved with him and drag those people with her. If I have to hear her cry about what a good person Esi was one more time, I might scream. Say she was a good FRIEND, I can live with that. Liz seems to be forgetting about Skip already, and I will happily do the same. Anyway, Ressler gets shot (by the almighty Townsend's people) while trying to transport Liz into custody. The most interesting thing about this is he appears to be bleeding out a rust color substance. So we have a character that has been assassinated to the point of losing all sympathy with a good chunk of the audience trying to save a character they have barely given any personality to over the course of eight seasons. I'd rather watch Aram and Agnes make paper airplanes, Park have another violent breakdown, or Cooper get an eye exam.
Of course Red has a solution to help, but even his go-to guy for this, is terrified of the great and powerful Townsend. I've been over Townsend since his second appearance, but if he kills Liz and then Red spends the next season or 2 hunting him down, I can live with that. Alas, that seems about as likely as Ressler suddenly getting a personality, or Liz taking responsibility for some of the screwed up things in her life.
Liz's confession of something she interprets as love to an unconscious Ressler had no warmth or sincerity to it. It sounded more like someone confessing something along the lines of having broken a toy when they were kids, or having been the one to scratch the car door. There is no romantic chemistry between them. I get that in a way, once upon a time, they could/would have made sense, but with the lack of chemistry and Liz's continued reckless stunts, nothing about this rings true. It feels gross and cheap. It feels like a disservice to Ressler to have him roped into a relationship with this delusional fugitive who has used and fooled him repeatedly all season. There could have been a better way to get them together it wouldn't have made my skin crawl, but instead Liz has been trashed because "Mommy said that Reddington man is bad. Mommy who was supposed to be dead, appeared from nowhere and lied to my face for weeks. She can be trusted!"
No one's saying anyone on this show has to be a saint, that would be dull. It is a deeply gray world on The Blacklist. But they went overboard on having Liz go rogue in this one sided feud with Red. It would be one thing if she took an ounce of responsibility or acknowledged some of this is her own doing, but she continues to blame Red and even name dropped poor dead Tom -at this point I'm glad he and Samar are free of the wonky writing on this show- tonight, mentioning people in her life not being as they appear. I wonder if this is foreshadowing that Liz herself isn't what she appears and doesn't even know it. Perhaps Liz is N-13! And Red is the Easter Bunny! Cooper is Santa, and Ressler is Pinocchio!
Not enough of Red and Dembe to distract away from the tragedy that is Liz and Ressler. Needed more Aram too. Last week's episode felt big and important, this felt like a weird time for filler and awkward fan service for the Keenler shippers. I thought you had to care about both characters in these ships people obsess over. If these people really cared about Ressler they'd want him to have some dignity and self respect. I'd think they'd want him to stand up against Liz's bullcrap instead of "put them together no matter what it takes". Season 3 Ressler was a pain but he had guts! Season 8 Ressler is a sap and a schmuck. It's sad. This season is so uneven it's disheartening. Still can't bring myself to go lower than a 5.
Join me next week as I vent about the answers Red says he's finally giving Liz! We are Charlie Brown, the writers are Lucy, and answers are the football. I'm not even trying to kick anymore, I just enjoy the good and come here to have cathartic rants about the not so good. I likely won't tune out unless they kill off Red or Dembe, but Liz is seriously testing my will to watch without fast forwarding.
Excellent
barbaraprowse2 June 2021
I had enough of Liz!!
happylife-0108019 November 2022
I get to understand that they're making way for Megan's exit from the serie but I had enough of her character !!
Blaming Red for everything despite she's the reason behind the death of "her beloved ones" because of her stupidity.
Allying with Townsend and trusting him, who she bearly knows against Red who did everything to protect her!! I try hard to empathize with her but I can't! And this is maybe because the poorly writing of her character, she became unbearable, stubborn and pro-hate to Red, refuse to hear anything from him and dedicating her life, her career to kill Raymond Reddington!!
And for keenler, I'm sorry but I can't feel the chemistry between them at all.
Blaming Red for everything despite she's the reason behind the death of "her beloved ones" because of her stupidity.
Allying with Townsend and trusting him, who she bearly knows against Red who did everything to protect her!! I try hard to empathize with her but I can't! And this is maybe because the poorly writing of her character, she became unbearable, stubborn and pro-hate to Red, refuse to hear anything from him and dedicating her life, her career to kill Raymond Reddington!!
And for keenler, I'm sorry but I can't feel the chemistry between them at all.
Said It All Before
Hitchcoc12 December 2022
It doesn't matter what Red says to Elizabeth. She has a mental illness. As much as Townsend does to her, she ignores him and blames Reddington for everything wrong with the world. She has no evidence about his being part of the Russian spy network except for what her mother told her--that tight faced virago. It is obvious now that she is not capable of being saved from herself. The FBI seems to have all they need as well, but won't do anything, giving her even more chances to screw things up. Of course, as always, the writers make her more and more superhuman. She is just an ordinary person, but within a few weeks she becomes an international mastermind. How about we get rid of Townsend. Talk about your pure nuts.
Beyond Stupid
d-robold31 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I think we're done. Tired of Elizabeth's whining and Poor Me attitude. Tired of her blaming Red for everything, especially since it's her blind obsession that caused most of it. Tired of this stupid storyline where everyone spouts Poor Liz and wants to save her. At least Red is what he always has been. Townsend is a cartoon character. Liz does not love ANYONE, least of all Donald, and someone needs to get her daughter into a real family somewhere in a place far away and hidden from everyone on this show.
So very disappointed.
So very disappointed.
Liz: "If you die, I will kill you"
lhodges-3048229 May 2021
Die Keen and take Ressler with you please
sonerayanlar29 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The whole show has become just to protect Keen who is responsible FBI agents, good people and now Keen and Ressler show no remorse as the driver got killed Man its absolutely bs all over anyway you screwed up the whole season because of glorifying Liz and making her a criminal master She is useless so is Ressler That bullsht romance god it hurts to watch.
Get Keen out pls
kaffash9929 May 2021
Ridiculous from beginning to end
ak20208 June 2021
Experienced FBI agents not knowing how to transport a fugitive safely from A to B safely
Subsequent actions sequences amateurish
Acting poor
A silly monologue by Keen
And an ending that defies belief
I really don't understand how reviewers can give this episode a high rating.
I really don't understand how reviewers can give this episode a high rating.
Authors do whatever we like liz!
siminsalaris30 May 2021
If the authors want to explain why the attack on Liz is wrong and why she is right. They are wrong to say that we have a gender distinction between Liz and Red, or that she has a right to know the truth about herself.
We do not hate Liz because she is a woman, either because she wants the truth, or because she has committed a crime.
We hate Liz's character.
Liz problem instability and acceptance responsibility. For example, when she works smart, she actually looks wild. The sudden killing of Conley, the imprisonment of Tom, the escape to Cuba, the imprisonment of Red, the explosion in the hospital, the abuse of the Dembe girl It's all disgusting and brutal.
She wants to be rejected and she complains all the time that he has entered my life and destroyed my life. She runs away from him and then happily works with him again. She throws him in jail and then tells him i I love you. She tries to kill him with explosives, but instead of firing a gun, she sprays it and bites it.
Whenever it is in his favor, he is kind to red, but he easily bites him on the back and makes fun of him.
Jump to resler and cooper why you have no problem with Red works.
But she's really just saying why don't you kill him because he killed the woman who tortured him and killed at least two FBI agents (agents who happened to be taking care of her). While before that she always said that the good things about working with Red have its bad values!
The problem is that she is a trained FBI agent and a woman in her forties, but she behaves like a child.
But, Red does not matter how bad everything he does. Even kill Kate. He makes a decision and accepts his responsibility to the end. It does not matter if it is the decision to kill Kate and Katherine or to pass over the death of Anne or to love Liz.
We do not hate Liz because she is a woman, either because she wants the truth, or because she has committed a crime.
We hate Liz's character.
Liz problem instability and acceptance responsibility. For example, when she works smart, she actually looks wild. The sudden killing of Conley, the imprisonment of Tom, the escape to Cuba, the imprisonment of Red, the explosion in the hospital, the abuse of the Dembe girl It's all disgusting and brutal.
She wants to be rejected and she complains all the time that he has entered my life and destroyed my life. She runs away from him and then happily works with him again. She throws him in jail and then tells him i I love you. She tries to kill him with explosives, but instead of firing a gun, she sprays it and bites it.
Whenever it is in his favor, he is kind to red, but he easily bites him on the back and makes fun of him.
Jump to resler and cooper why you have no problem with Red works.
But she's really just saying why don't you kill him because he killed the woman who tortured him and killed at least two FBI agents (agents who happened to be taking care of her). While before that she always said that the good things about working with Red have its bad values!
The problem is that she is a trained FBI agent and a woman in her forties, but she behaves like a child.
But, Red does not matter how bad everything he does. Even kill Kate. He makes a decision and accepts his responsibility to the end. It does not matter if it is the decision to kill Kate and Katherine or to pass over the death of Anne or to love Liz.
What the...
andreolimarco6 July 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The episode opens with a huge problem, imho: FBI veichles without bulletproof windows and body? Are you serious? This is a huge hole in the script: obviously they had to justify Ressler and Keen running off on foot, he is also seriously wounded... but come on!
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