I’m starting to think other than Red, the writers just may not be any good at writing characters. She seemed to exist only as Red’s personal mood ring, while all of the other characters seemed more deeply, but narrowly drawn. While Janssen seems like an excellent addition to the cast, the other members of the ensemble radically and unexpectedly devolved.īefore she was knocked off the show, Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) served as the series worst-written character. In a way, she seems like an agglomeration of Red’s unflappability and intelligence and Tom Keen’s (Ryan Eggold) laid back but confident seduction ability. Having her dress in a short tight red dress and offering plenty shots of her long legs, her sex appeal will certainly be part of her character. While not as overtly sexualized as Barbara Stanwyck’s Phyllis Dietrichson in Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity or Sharon Stone’s Catherine Tramell in Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct, Janssen does play off her sexuality. Both Spader and Janssen hit the nail on the head, with Janssen playing the role of crime lord Hargrave as an older femme fatale. The casting department does an equal good job of getting first-rate actors to play them. The writers are very good at crafting complicated, endearing sociopaths like Red. While the series was able to gain its action mojo, it’s still plagued by uneven character development. Like always, there were a great many elements of the episode that couldn’t stand more than a few seconds of attention. I was hoping for a more dramatic entrance,” to keep the viewer’s mind engaged and entertained. The island, certainly not the shorts,” and “God, that door was slow. Director Andrew McCarthy paces the action fast enough and the writers include the needed quota of Red quips, “I once spent part of a summer in Bermuda. The episode’s plot is another baroque and convoluted collection of false leads and double crosses that lead in the end to a confrontation, all of which leads to the Red and Hargrave meeting. 18)” was to start the post-Keen era of The Blacklist. The episode opens with new blacklister Susan Hargrave (Famke Janssen) walking through a collection of corpses and blood splatter to find a note from “R” asking for a meeting. Lots of shootouts, action, and main character Raymond “Red” Reddington, (James Spader) being his charming, supercilious, and sociopathic self. After two weeks of soy lecithin, maltodextrin, modified corn starch, and torula yeast, The Blacklist has finally got back to meat of the series.
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