The Blacklist (TV Series) Nicholas T. Moore (No. 110) (2018) User Reviews

Many plot holes

[gjenevieve · 6/10 · 6 May 2018]

So, supposedly there is a group of people who have been living for years in the middle of the woods far away from society. That is all well and good except, if they never interact with anyone in society and are completely isolated, where have the people been getting the glasses they are wearing? Where have they been getting their clothes? Where are they getting all of the stuff that they have been using this whole time. They do not want to interact with anyone else because supposedly there is a contagion and anyone not in their little group has this contagion. This also does not explain how they have someone who goes into society and finds any of the people who decide to try and leave their little group. How do they contact that person? How do they not catch this contagion from this person who is out in the world near all the "contagious" people?

The other person who wrote a review also made some good points about how the girl that had escaped and was in a hospital suddenly gets taken while the FBI is keeping an eye on her. And how an FBI agent who is trained manages to get herself captured.

Too many plot holes in this this one. The writers need to go back to school and learn how to write proper stories.

Samar In Danger

[ZegMaarJus · 8/10 · 3 August 2020]

This episode begins with a young girl and her father running in the snowy woods. The girl has been brought to the hospital, Liz visits her. The man in the first scene has been ubducted by Moore. Moore sets him on fire. Maybelle has been abducted by Devlin, when he tries to escape he also took Samar with him. Red found out that the bones are in Costa Rica. Red has a meeting with his daughter Jennifer, she wants to hear some answers from Red. Moore is offering Maybelle, on that moment the FBI attacks his camp Liz rescued Maybelle. Aram tells the real story to the camp, they are all turning against Moore. Moore shot down one of his soldiers, the FBI is raiding the camp. Aram didn't found Samar, she has been ubducted by Lawrence Dane Devlin he is the next name on The Blacklist. Solid episode of The Blacklist Season 5, a creepy colt is many episodes the main objective on this show i like it tho.

Too Many People/Too Little Space

[Hitchcoc · 6/10 · 28 November 2022]

The situation is so far beyond reality, it just isn't going to work. A nutcase has created a woodsy culture where people think they have to stay or be "contaminated." The leader then has them barbecued if they stray. A little girl's father is killed as she escapes (picked up by a trucker). These people think the world ended and they are what's left. When the leader finds out, he hires a guy to kidnap the little girl and bring her back to be burned alive. In addition to this, the agent who is with her gets thrown in the van and taken away. The captor is a looney tunes assassin. Meanwhile Red is continuing looking for his baggage.

I get where they're going, but this was a weaker episode

[foamythefearsome · 7/10 · 21 November 2022]

Throughout the series Ive noticed that I dont really like the cult-themed episodes about villages with weird people. The concept of the story was good and the revelation was clever (be it not original, but I dont mind them taking inspiration from other work), but it just felt uninteresting compared to the rest of the series.

There's plot progress, and they're putting Samar in jeopardy, which is not an issue per se (it's good to see that the antagonists sometimes manage to beat the taskforce), but the way this happened felt a bit cheap - it should never have been that easy for him to get the kid and to then get Samar.

Not bad, but a bit of a letdown after the preceding power-packed episode (and I guess just not really my thing)

Suspension of disbelief, suspended.

[steve-00758 · 3/10 · 23 May 2018]

This was a good premise, after all it has been done before, but the ridiculous plot twist involving a highly trained Mossad agent, gun drawn, is taken down by a fat, old guy. Lazy, sloppy, and completely unbelievable.

Show getting sloppy (spoiler)

[h0tel · 3/10 · 3 May 2018]

Previously this was a well written show but lately the writing has suffered.

Two experienced FBI agents allow an orderly (with no paperwork, no name tag, no hospital badge) take a Jane Doe little child, with a non-reason for doing so, and the FBI agents just watch. Then one of the agents confronts the abductor outside, with her gun drawn, BUT obviously way too close (despite years of FBI training) and gets taken down.

Disappointing

[fmperiset · 4/10 · 16 July 2020]

After the astonishing 'Ian Garvey: Conclusion', 'Nicholas T. Moore' is a clear letdown. Although the premise is intriguing, the episode as a whole is uninteresting and feels excessively long and hard to watch. These 40 minutes do little to push the plot forward and sadly we are left with uninspired pieces of dialogue, a conventional plot where clichés abound and a frustrating lack of tension. Having said that, the episode does have some virtues, most of which have to do with the development of Red's subplot. Overall, however, the result is uneven and flawed.

Grade: 4.2 / 10

What did I just watch? What happened to the show?

[zmos99 · 1/10 · 10 October 2020]

Highly trained agent Samar is overpowered in three seconds by an old fat guy when she foolishly points a rifle 3 inches away from his face. Right.

Science-fiction writer creates an isolationist cult based on the plot of one of his own bookS. Ok.

When people escape from the cult they are considered to be infected. Yet for some incomprehensible reason, these infected cult members must be kidnapped and brought back to the cult compound! Huh?

Both times the cult tries to kill an infected member in the woods, we hear an inexplicable Christian chorus playing in the background. It almost sounds like there are speakers attached it to the trees in the forest. It's like though the shows producer is trying so hard to connect deadly cults with Christianity. Disgusting.

Blacklist, you had a lot to offer. But not anymore.

No real Mossad agent would fall into that trap

[regemadorate · 2/10 · 4 September 2020]

I find it very hard to believe that Samir as a former Mossad agent is so easily taken captive. She should how know to keep your distance to your suspect while pointing a gun. And it is not the first time the Mossafd screws an arrest. To hard to see.

Too many plot holes!

[nohash82 · 1/10 · 1 January 2020]

How come in season 2/3 Red made sure Naomi his ex wife and her other husband leave to Canada and they were put under his protection! Now in this episode, he suddenly has no recollection of meeting her or protecting her, and now she is dead and he has no idea!!!!!

Village Ripoff

[jdbeck-42281 · 4/10 · 13 May 2018]

Ripping off M. night Shaymalan's the village and doing a bad job at it... also putting 'Village' cleaners was a sad attempt to give the movie a compliment.

Huge spoilers. Tread carefully.

[Sibiriak_com · 5/10 · 17 April 2024]

I suppose in the beginning of writing a season they have enough time and every season always starts well-balanced and the characters are calculated. But closer the deadline the less inspired the writing crew gets.

Ok. So they thought, we have to get rid of her so let the time do it for us. For some reason, Reddington doesn't care for Samar, neither did Ressler nor Elizabeth. Every dumb film and show including The Blacklist they always interrogate a suspect on a spot when their own is in trouble. And they are not letting Aram to simply ask Moore about the fixer. What? It's like watching a different film with the same actors. And apparently they just went to sleep or what? And the next day they gathered for the classical TV crime drama briefing. If they pressed Moore right away, he would tell about the fi[er and Reddington would have find the lead in the next hour.

I always say in reviews that I am extremely tolerating audience member but sometimes, just... Ok. After that, a wrench stubbing Samar by itself. Have you ever used a wrench like this? First of it's not sharp, second of all even if there was a knife laying around it would not have break the clothes and skin just by falling onto a person, let alone a crude wrench. And if it wasn't enough. She broke the wrench in a half. By trying to bend the cage. WHAT? Even a cheap wrench like this is designed to unscrew the rusty bolts and nuts to change a tire. Ok, then Samar calls Aram and says I'm in the water. For all this seasons they showed us how this smart Aram starts "triangulating the area" (whatever that means) as soon as he hears "water" or "forest" or "mountains" or "waterfall" (exactly in the previous episode it was the waterfall). And I understand he is under stress but all he need to do is to say it into intercom. And don't get me started on why they don't have a chopper. I'm watching these not-so-special agents and it's like they are playing the writers who are thinking "well, we already decided to get rid of this character so let's do nothing". Even their voices sound lazy.

There is a technicality flaw after that, which could be forgiven if not for the all the rest. On 33:37 Samar is trying to open the cage and it's showing as if the water has reached the roof. But when Aram is trying to open the cage you can see how there is space in the corner. And obviously at this point the van has stopped drowning because it's a flat river and the van is near the shore. So she could have waited breathing in this corner. Again, I usually don't hang up on the technicality like this. But in the bunch it's only making it worse.