The entire hook of this series has been that eventually we, both the audience and Liz, will find out who Reddington really is. Megan Boone, the actress who played her, decided to leave the show and I don't blame her one bit for abandoning this ship. She went from a likable co-lead to a poorly written mess. Are you kidding me? Look I hated her character as much as everyone else. But the answer we still didn't ultimately get for sure is who this current Reddington played by James Spader that we know and love is.Īnd then in the season finale, Liz fucking dies. We got answers about the fire, the real Reddington, etc. The old bag we thought was Katarina was a fake. Basically we found out that the blacklist was used to create a criminal empire that could keep Liz safe and keep her mother Katarina in hiding. We finally got some answers about the past. The penultimate episode of the season was particularly good. It felt like the old Blacklist in some respects. I will admit there were some very good episodes. So while I was home last week, I spent a couple days binge watching the last half of the season. My dad watches the show too and without spoiling anything, he said we did finally get some answers. The season ended in late June and I was seeing tweets about how we might finally get answers. I figured I'd catch up eventually but I just couldn't keep up every single week any longer. It was the same shit week after week and as the world opened back up and the weather got nicer, I could no longer justify an hour worth of torture to myself every week.

I continued to watch every week for another month or so, but eventually I just couldn't do it anymore. That perfectly summed up how I felt about the show in February. They know that anyone who is still watching will keep watching, so the ratings won't go anywhere. I'll wait it out and keep watching this shitty show until it finally ends and they put us out of our misery. You can say it's sunk cost/time, but at this point I'm not going anywhere. They can make 20 seasons, and I'll watch every single season. But you think I'm going to stop watching and risk the next episode revealing who Red really is? Nope. Just an absolute grind to get through every episode. I've invested eight years of my life into this. They firmly have me by the balls like a total sucker. This is not the first time I've banged the keyboard to complain about 'The Blacklist.' Back in February, I wrote that the creators of the NBC show should be arrested for stealing years of our lives.

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