I didn’t recap the episode from last week because it was gross. Like stewmaker gross. Only this time crazy people were hunting other people for sport and stuffing them and arranging them into little villages. Or something. I could barely pay attention. Plus we have come to the part of the season where no one really cares anymore about the people on the blacklist that get caught by the task force every week. This week was pretty much the same but more boring than gross.
All I really care about is the storyline with Red, Liz, and Tom (with a side of Liz and Ressler). During that gross hunting episode we met the girl who Red has been looking for, for years. She works on a food truck. He goes to stalk her. They have wistful moments. We are led to believe that this is Red’s long-lost daughter. Was I the only one watching them eat and discuss anchovies looking at her very weird eyes thinking she looks not a thing like Red. I mean even being half Asian could not have made her look like a possible biological child. As it turns out it isn’t his daughter, it’s Berlins! All this time Berlin has hated Red and been after him because he thought he killed his daughter. But he didn’t he was apparently set up!
Meanwhile Liz has Tom in the belly of a ship somewhere and has been playing hard ball with him. She is thinking about killing him. But now that Berlin is not after Red anymore (we think they make up) doesn’t that let Tom off the hook? Can’t Tom now tell Liz everything if he wants to?
The previews for next week essentially say everything we think we know about The Blacklist is wrong. We’ve been duped. Next week everything changes. So will we find out that Tom is really the one on Liz’s side and that Red is the bad guy? That Liz is not Red’s daughter at all? Maybe LIZ is really Berlin’s daughter? What?
I am growing wearing now, after two seasons of no answers. I don’t have a very long attention span. I find the front burner storylines of catching a bad guy or two every week less and less interesting. I’m starting not to care about Red or Liz anymore. I’ll keep tuning in, but I am certainly not going to waste hours recapping the minutiae.
My twitter buddy who I call GNG was super excited about the last episode. I’m hoping she will come over here and explain to me what was so great about it. I’m getting bored.
I tried to watch it, but it was too gross. Then went to read a recap and couldn’t even get through that. Thanks a lot for this because you wrote about the parts I wanted to know. Not sure I can hang in with this one, it’s kinda just the same thing every week trying to make it more outlandish than the last with a few interesting pieces here and there.
Thanks Lindy. I’m glad I’m not the only one. I don’t need to see all the gross crap. Especially when it doesn’t advance the major storyline at all.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I keep forgetting to watch this. And the last 2 time I DID watch, I fell asleep. I do like the show, though.
I am so glad to see you!
I think Tom in the basement was a good twist, but the plot meanders. Please stay on point Blacklist.
Agreed.
Just a thought I don’t have prior seasons. Remember Red took a photo from the stewmakers photo album. Can’t remember who. Do you?
I think it was the girl from the food truck. Berlin’s daughter. He’s been looking for her forever and used his one peek into the secret CIA files to find her. IIRC, I think she has a police record.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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My theory is that Liz is actually Red’s sister.
I enjoyed the last episode a lot. I enjoy the task force’s weekly crime solving. It didn’t gross me out either but I read similar type books.
If all or most of Reds secrets are answered how would the show be interesting to you then? It’s only season two, way to early to answer the major questions, at least for me.
There are still characters that were introduced in the first season that have been left hanging also. Remember the woman that stole Reds painting?
How would Tom know, being caged, that Berlin was no longer after Red?
Oooo, good catch Calipatti. How did Tom know about Berlin
The gross stuff was all a prelude to explaining Dembe and Red’s relationship. I think they do go all around the mulberry bush to get us to the ah-ha moment but I like trying to make the associations. The reveal of the girl as Berlin’s daughter when most thought she was Red’s was an excellent way to transition to establishing a relationship between Red and Berlin that should be an interesting cliffhanger for the finale. Who is the bad guy? Maybe it really is Tom and we have been duped again. Fascinating because you know in the real world, the blacklist exists with all the human, drug and money trafficking. This shows storylines can be cumbersome at times but I love the way they tie things together and make me say ah-ha by the end of the show.
Vonnie ~~ very week explained. I enjoy the mind games the writers are doing also. I want to guess and go ah-ha also.
OOPS – very “well” NOT week
I am giving director Cooper a serious side eye. He mentioned about Bethesda having the best neurology team?? Liz didn’t mention anything about a head injury not that I recall. hmmmm. I hope Ressler gets help because he is becoming helpless and useless, and I have to admit Berlin finding out his daughter is actually alive was a big WOW. All this time he was wanted to kill Red on a Lie and to think of how many people were collateral damage along the way. I’m wondering what will a happen between Liz (Tom) but I find myself fast forwarding their scenes.
I have been giving him the side eye since RED alluded to the fact that he has info on him in order to get Cooper to come back. There is something going on with him we don’t know yet. #lovetheblacklist
They had better answer some questions soon, or I’m out. It’s starting to remind me of the first season of the show “The Killing”, where I went through the whole season and they STILL didn’t reveal the killer.
In the Killing, it took two seasons to find one murderer to one murder (the aunt did it). The third season, they had two to three killings an episode and on the last episode they revealed who did it. (her boss she was having an affair with). Speeding things up, came too late in the killing. There are six more episodes for those of us who stuck with the series on Netflix. I have yet to sit an binge watch it yet, but it is on my to do list.
I really hope that the blacklist learns from the killing. Speed things up (but not too much) tie up storylines on each season and don’t tease for too long or people lose interest. So yes, they NEED to tell us what the real relationship is between Red and Liz, or there will be a mass exodus of watchers soon…
Amen, couldn’t have said it better myself. I need to watch the last season also.
The last episode of The Killing (on Netfix) turns out to be the best. Keep watching.
This was a favorite show for me last season. I bitched about the writing but still found it interesting. I have the last 3 episodes saved on DVR, just in no hurry to watch. It seems to me this season the weekly chases have been dry and boring with no advancement of information I still care about.
Covert Affairs is starting back up. It doesn’t seem as good as it used to be, but at least it still has me watching into it’s fifth year.
As the AHS seasons are inter- connected with clues and characters, they seem to have a master plan. The Blacklist seems poorly made up on the fly. Every once in a while they remember to throw in something of possible significance, maybe. Will we ever know anything for sure? How are the ratings? Will it be canceled before the key relationships are revealed?
Ratings are great.
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I loved the daughter reveal in the last episode then I remembered last season when Liz came to the conclusion that Red was using the taskforce to find out who was ruining his business. So how did Red know to look for Berlin’s daughter during the Stewmaker episode when he supposedly did not know that it was Berlin who was after him or why?
Is Liz’s bodyguard gone from the show? He wasn’t bad I the chemistry department.
I will continue to read the recaps until there is some reason to actually watch the show. Tried to catch up by watching season one through Netflix. I watched up until episode 8, then I realized that it is the same show every time, Red reveals someone to chase… the Feds chase and catch, Liz gets mad and is confused, show over. The chase is never of a kingpin of the underworld which Red promised in the beginning when the alliance with the Feds was made…. one target was a currier, the stew maker, etc. The target is always someone that furthers the cause of Red.
Because Liz’s hair grew two feet in a couple of episodes I figured that was suppose to show a lot of time had passed but no…….Tom at one point in episode 6 or 7 mentioned that only a few weeks had passed since Liz had started her new job. The hair growth is a mystery, to me anyway.
And Red, oh Red, what happened to you. He looked familiar, alas he was thehottest teen idol ever……………..now not so much (but a great actor with a great/somewhat great character to play).
The viewers mocked the wig Liz wore in season one so much they relented and let her quit wearing it for season two. 🙂
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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