The ten seasons of the Blacklist have provided a decent escape for around 22 evenings a year, in a TV show that is not a masterpiece by any stretch of the term, but not bad either. How will it end on the July 13, 2023 final double episode?
The Morgana Logistics Corporation episode on June 8, 2023 has confirmed that not only Red is winding down and closing-up everything to do with his professional life of crime and his life's work, but he is doing so by offering himself as a blacklister for the Task Force to go after without them knowing the crime organization(s) they are taking down is actually his this time, not one of an enemy or competitor of his.
But the real answer The Blacklist owes to its viewers of ten years is the one it's always been: Who is Red? Elizabeth Keen's departure from the show two seasons ago threw a monkey wrench into the narrative that was leading to that answer. The showrunners may have hoped that the last two seasons changed direction enough for the viewers to have forgotten that question. But we haven't.
If Red disappears, retires, dies or whatever without answering the question of who and what Elizabeth Keen was to him, and who is he, where did he come from? Not revealing why did he do anything and all that he did in the first eight seasons will be a great disappointment if not an insult to the viewers.
Who was Red to Elisabeth Keene? Who was Elizabeth Keen for Red? That's the only reason I am watching the last episodes and I fear we will not get that answer. I don't know that the showrunners have even come up with an answer!
The Morgana Logistics Corporation episode on June 8, 2023 has confirmed that not only Red is winding down and closing-up everything to do with his professional life of crime and his life's work, but he is doing so by offering himself as a blacklister for the Task Force to go after without them knowing the crime organization(s) they are taking down is actually his this time, not one of an enemy or competitor of his.
But the real answer The Blacklist owes to its viewers of ten years is the one it's always been: Who is Red? Elizabeth Keen's departure from the show two seasons ago threw a monkey wrench into the narrative that was leading to that answer. The showrunners may have hoped that the last two seasons changed direction enough for the viewers to have forgotten that question. But we haven't.
If Red disappears, retires, dies or whatever without answering the question of who and what Elizabeth Keen was to him, and who is he, where did he come from? Not revealing why did he do anything and all that he did in the first eight seasons will be a great disappointment if not an insult to the viewers.
Who was Red to Elisabeth Keene? Who was Elizabeth Keen for Red? That's the only reason I am watching the last episodes and I fear we will not get that answer. I don't know that the showrunners have even come up with an answer!
