Liz is on the run, Red is back from
playing Ultron and the black guy is branching out! #TheBlacklist #NBC
#PremiereWeek #DVRRewind
All pictures courtesy of NBC
Boy was Thursday a crowded night for
TV. If you weren’t watching something spectacular amongst the
offerings, then you missed out on a hell of a lot of good
programming. In the nine o’clock hour alone we had Scandal, The
Blacklist (#TheBlacklist) and Sleepy Hollow, not to mention CBS’s
Thursday night gridiron showdown between the Ravens and the Steelers.
But if you don’t like football, don’t like a good romance, don’t
like political drama, hate the paranormal and otherworldly and just
plain old despise TV, chances are you might be dead. That’s OK.
There’s a show called Walking Dead that I heard helps dead people
rehabilitate their legs and basic motor functions. If you do like TV,
then keep reading for my recap of The Blacklist.
When last we left off Elizabeth Keen
had shot and killed one of the powerful white men who not only lied
to her boss about him being deathly ill but concocted a plan that had
her looking like a Russian spy because of who her mother was--a
Russian spy. Forget the fact that she grew up in America her entire
life and barely remembered her mother from her youth, according to
him she had somehow been trained and placed within this secret
division on purpose. This was further backed by the fact that Red
asked to speak only with her when first turning himself in as he was
fingered as an accomplice to her spying. For Red it didn’t much
matter as he was already deemed a traitor long ago but for Elizabeth
the accusation, coupled with the fact that she knew her ex-husband
was alive and kept him prisoner on a boat where an innocent man died
and underwent a trial because of it, threw her entire life out of
order. Now, she had to go on the run.
Picking up with her and Red in
mid-flee, he used his long list of contacts to procure them a safe
exit from the city. The plan: find a good hiding place, stay there
for two or three weeks, visit a man that could safely get them out
after such a duration and escape out of the country. That plan was
ruined.
With old by-the-book Ressler getting
the promotion from her partner to the temporary mobilized head of
this secret task force, he went after her with gusto. Why he wanted
to find her so bad is partially explored as he was also one of the
people complicit in letting her escape hours prior. His so-so change
of heart only came after she actually killed the evil Attorney
General, a crime which doesn’t seem too bad since her old boss also
let her escape (even telling her to run), her hacker coworker hates
the manhunt put out on her and even her other Middle Eastern coworker
(I swear I’m going to learn her name one day) isn’t thrilled
about searching for her. Nevertheless, with Ressler at the helm they
plan on finding her.
And find her they do. Venturing to a
safe house of a man he thought he could trust, Red’s weeks of
safety he planned to spend with Liz turned into minutes when the
guy’s sister called the FBI on them. They ran to the Troll
Farmer—the guy who is supposed to get them out—to have him create
a social media buzz of tip-line sightings and location tweets all
across the city. He even had a woman and man dress like Liz and Red
and roam the city so traffic cams could take pictures of them in
various places. The city harboring a Russian spy on the run, D.C. naturally goes into lock-down until her capture.
While Red makes it past the last
checkpoint, Liz just misses it when Ressler solves their ruse and
catches her transport vehicle. A traitor until the end, Red gives
Ressler the name of the Troll Farmer as the guy says he doesn’t
ever want to work for Red again after the difficult rush job. The
name is gifted to Ressler as a sign of good faith to treat Liz with
respect because both men know she’s not what people are saying she
is. In a genius move, Liz adopts the accusatory story of her
espionage against the US, runs to the Russian embassy and scales the
fence to beg for diplomatic protection as a Russian spy.
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| Mufasa AKA Demba |
Doing a good job at setting up two hot
story arcs for the season, the second one involved African Black guy
and long time Red collaborator Mufasa (not his actual character name
but I like to call him that) dealing with a kidnapping of his
granddaughter by another sinister evil black guy. The man returns the
baby when Mufasa agrees to meet him but he says Mufasa has to breathe
in a strange vapor before the mysterious group the evil guy works for
gives the baby the antidote to the slow-acting poison they gave her.
The big twist? The evil black guy belongs to the same organization
that set Lizzy up and outranks the head of the FBI in this secret
society. What mischief will he bring to the show? Only time will
tell.
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| Mr. Solomon |
For a show competing with Scandal for
viewers, Blacklist gave us a strong initial showing for its season
premiere and set up so many story strands that can change the entire
outlook of the show that viewers have to be salivating to learn what
happens next?
What do you think? Did you find the
episode just as good as Scandal’s “Yes”? Are you excited to see
what the heck will happen to Liz next? And where do you think that
side-story with the black guy is going? Let
me know what you think in the comments below.
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always, check out my books on Amazon (if you’re looking for
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Until next time, “there are no
strings on me. ”
P.S. OK, seriously I know probably half
of you thought about Pinnochio first, which, seeing as how Ultron was
completely obsessed with the character, I can see your reasoning. But
was anyone else a little disappointed in how they used James Spader?
He was so cheesy in that movie.
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