AuthenticM
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I think Tom is behind that door. Liz kidnapped him and has been torturing him for info for months.
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The Blacklist - Mondays 10/9c on NBC
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Darth Pinche
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Big Papa Husker
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How long has he been chained up back there?
Megabyte117
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Really enjoyed tonight's episode. Loving this badass Liz, as always. Some great moments with Samar there as well. Goddamn, she's gorgeous. Hoping we'll get additional development with Cooper, sometime.
Finally, lovely twist. Spader has such wonderful delivery. And to anyone who grouses about the predictability of it, I just shake my head. Honestly, I don't see it as being predictable at all, specifically for the average show-watcher who isn't pouring over every line of dialogue/screenshot.
Just sad that after next week, the wait will be quite long for the latter half of the series. Also, would love some more friendly interactions between Liz and Red. Jesus Christ, those two are tense.
Finally, lovely twist. Spader has such wonderful delivery. And to anyone who grouses about the predictability of it, I just shake my head. Honestly, I don't see it as being predictable at all, specifically for the average show-watcher who isn't pouring over every line of dialogue/screenshot.
Just sad that after next week, the wait will be quite long for the latter half of the series. Also, would love some more friendly interactions between Liz and Red. Jesus Christ, those two are tense.
AuthenticM
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It's kind of convenient that a Mossad agent was added as a regular protagonist at the height of Israel hate in the west. The first season had a lot of consequentialist and conservative undertones, but this just makes it clear what kind of people are running this show.
I wanted to say this after last week's episode, but did they really try to pass off Tom in the locked room as a big secret that nobody could figure out?
what the fuck else could it be, the show is 1 season old, there ARE no other mysteries except that one. #lizziesecret lol
anyway, season is kinda meh so far, it needs more Red and less...everyone else. Liz is especially annoying these days, and I didnt even mind her in season 1
what the fuck else could it be, the show is 1 season old, there ARE no other mysteries except that one. #lizziesecret lol
anyway, season is kinda meh so far, it needs more Red and less...everyone else. Liz is especially annoying these days, and I didnt even mind her in season 1
AuthenticM
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The show needs more of Liz's butt.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
True story!
They really seem to have added a lot more to the show. Kinda weird.
Miles Quaritch
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Red takes down yet another super amazing and deadly assassin without breaking a sweat.
Come the fuck on. I feel like I'm watching only to watch at this point. I've pretty much lost all interest in the story and the characters....
Not even Red has been interesting so far, his effortlessly taking down the villain of the week is worn out and tired. Stormare is also being completely wasted as Berlin.
Not to mention Tom, a wildcard who had potential to be a real player, also being wasted....
Come the fuck on. I feel like I'm watching only to watch at this point. I've pretty much lost all interest in the story and the characters....
Not even Red has been interesting so far, his effortlessly taking down the villain of the week is worn out and tired. Stormare is also being completely wasted as Berlin.
Not to mention Tom, a wildcard who had potential to be a real player, also being wasted....
AuthenticM
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Yeah, they need to shake things up. And they are definitely wasting Stormare. The dude should have way more presence.
bodyboarder
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Hopefully Tom is gone for good.
I feel like not much changed through the first half of this season. Tom is still gone, Berlin has been replaced by another faceless threat. We still don't have any more information on the big mysteries. It's fun to watch, but not much in the way of progress.
All that's changed is more Liz butt.
All that's changed is more Liz butt.
We don't know at this time. It seemed like a quadruple cross just for the sake of it thus far.
I see. Just wasn't sure how much I was supposed to understand. Thank you!
Rafa=FedKilla
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That ass is a wig brah.
Miles Quaritch
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Berlin. What a complete and utter waste of time.
Seriously, they did absolutely nothing of note with this guy. What the fuck was the point of even getting Stormare only to completely waste him?
Seriously, they did absolutely nothing of note with this guy. What the fuck was the point of even getting Stormare only to completely waste him?
Rambaldi47
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Are we to believe that Red and Tom have been working togther all the time now then? But what about in the first series where they sat and spoke as if they didn't know each other? Why would they act this way when no one was watching?
It's all gone to pot really. An interesting show to begin with but it has quickly become ridiculous. Spader looks bored now. Can't see it lasting much longer.
It's all gone to pot really. An interesting show to begin with but it has quickly become ridiculous. Spader looks bored now. Can't see it lasting much longer.
Big Papa Husker
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It's still getting really high ratings. I bet it will be back next year.
Miles Quaritch
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This was a completely ridiculous twist, but it's seem par the course with this show.
I've had enough, I'll see out the rest of the season and then be on my merry way.
poppabk
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Yeah the whole Berlin character was completely pointless and basically served as a way to build tension at the end of season one so they could avoid explaining a single thing that was going on.
AngmarsKing701
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Spader is awesome. He covers sloppy writing.
Ya I thought it was a really good episode, can't go wrong with having Perlman as your villain.
hobblygobbly
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What keeps me coming back to this show is James Spader's antics as Reddington. Love him. He carries this show all the way.
No Lizzie..do not listen to this man.
Leave them open....it is the only way.
Good, I was hoping it was not going to repeat Sunday's
New episode's about to start! They're rerunning the last one, and holy shit that part during the final sequence when Red storms the room Braxton is in with Liz is still soooooo good.
I have a feeling that this episode is going to be a massive exposition dump... or a massive tease, again.
I have a feeling that this episode is going to be a massive exposition dump... or a massive tease, again.
Sunavabitch just when they're about to reveal something, they end the episode. I think it's pretty obvious now (as it has been from the start) that Red is Liz's father, yeah? He's got burns all over his back, he was present at the fire, Liz thinks her father died in the fire, and her memory was tempered with to "switch roles around". He's. Her. Father.
I wish they'd just be out with it already and stop dancing around it.
I wish they'd just be out with it already and stop dancing around it.
I'm gonna go with him saving her from her father. There's too much at stake for there to be no vindication.
Oh yeah, that's what I was thinking when she heard the gun shot; forgot about that, thanks.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Part of me wants to have that if Liz is Reddington's daughter, Reddington basically didn't 'lie' when he said he wasn't Liz's father, as it was her foster-dad who filled that role in her life.
The other half things she's the only other way to access some mysterious information, i.e. Red keeps mentioning some file/network with the Blacklist, among other things. Red cares, in a paternal manner even, but...it'd be so obvious that there really isn't any way they could pull it off as a twist.
It's a toss-up, honestly.
Edit: Plus, Luther seemed in the know, and last episode, it seemed more like he was implying that Red came to the house for some reason other than to save Liz, initially.
The other half things she's the only other way to access some mysterious information, i.e. Red keeps mentioning some file/network with the Blacklist, among other things. Red cares, in a paternal manner even, but...it'd be so obvious that there really isn't any way they could pull it off as a twist.
It's a toss-up, honestly.
Edit: Plus, Luther seemed in the know, and last episode, it seemed more like he was implying that Red came to the house for some reason other than to save Liz, initially.
Maybe he originally went to the house to get the Fulcrum and ended up saving Liz from the people that started the fire instead?
Which reminds me, was that thing that Liz pulled out of the teddy bear at the end supposed to be the Fulcrum?
Yeah, if he isn't her father, then he definitely either saved her from her father or from the people retrieving the Fulcrum, who had maybe already killed her father.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Well, as of having finished the latest episode Red's definitely one of two people.
Either
Or
Both have bald patches, and Liz's hypnotherapy and drug cocktail aren't exactly reliable, much less being a 4 year old.
Red looks so sad at the end of the last interrogation scene as Liz storms off.
Also, the tech-guy/Israeli agent romance is hilariously awkward, and I can't get over how Liz keeps flip-flopping. She hates Reddington at the end of one episode, and is back to working with him at the next one.
Either
The guy going after the fulcrum/the guy in plaid, escorting his thugs out of the building, and then turning around to get Liz (which could be supported if either of the other two guys in the scene match Liz's foster dad
Or
the father who was shot, who manages to rouse himself, and the 'you were there' is a redirection. This hints more at the out-of-the-way manner in which Red goes to protect her, and why he hasn't just kidnapped her and gotten the information out. Also lent credence by the burns on Red's back, when it looks like the other, plaid-wearing man got out before the flames went up.
Both have bald patches, and Liz's hypnotherapy and drug cocktail aren't exactly reliable, much less being a 4 year old.
Red looks so sad at the end of the last interrogation scene as Liz storms off.
Also, if Liz's Father had the fulcrum, and if Red, as he implies at the end with the guy who hired Luthor, actually has it....add that to the memory expert section at the end, and...yeah. Though I can't quite see Red not knowing that the bunny had what is inferred to be the fulcrum inside of it, and took it from Liz, unless it was his back-up/insurance.
Also, the tech-guy/Israeli agent romance is hilariously awkward, and I can't get over how Liz keeps flip-flopping. She hates Reddington at the end of one episode, and is back to working with him at the next one.
a secret-boss
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The last shot of Liz in memory dream seemed like Red and Liz kissing