The Blacklist Declassified

This is kind of exciting. I knew Megan Boone had a write-up in CapitolFile (with stunning photographs). But what she says about social media and The Blacklist writing staff is relevant to what is done here and on other blogs. What I mostly inferred in my earlier post (the 12:49pm 11/19 one, after the gay part), she confirms:

“Q: Can you give us any hints or insight about this season? I’m sure you know there are message boards and superfans rewatching and dissecting every part of the show.

“A: I know! Well, there’s a big secret that’s going to be revealed about Elizabeth Keen; she has a source for information and that source is going to be revealed. Also, you will see we’re going to have everything disbanded by the end of the season. I think we’re going to lose the structure of the tactical unit being a unit, but I say that with hesitance. Not because it’s too big of a spoiler, but because it’s subject to change; our writers are so responsive to social media.

“Q: How does the process work? I noticed last season that current events were woven in and references added to the dialogue to make it very timely.

⋙ “A: I really think that social media has changed the medium of television in a huge way. We are in the golden age of television. The interesting thing about network TV is that we are developing and shooting episodes at a much faster rate (than cable or streaming), so that means our air date and our wrap date are very close. When we get a response from our fans, we’re able to almost instantly respond to that within our story. Within a couple of episodes, fans will see something play out that they wished for, or something that they noticed will be somehow woven into the story.”

[Cross-posted at WSJ Speakeasy]
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@MeganBoone is quite active on Twitter. The show makes sure many of the actors and sometimes the producers and writers are active on Twitter during the nights of the broadcasts. To avoid the spam that can crop up at busy times, I’ve set up a Twitter list. It’s always a good place to go for new material – finds different activity than Google – though people are posting on a lot of other things during the hiatus. You can sign up (“subscribe,” though it’s free), follow this link https://twitter.com/Auriandra/lists/nbc-blacklist, or just look it up on my list of lists by searching under @Auriandra.

[not blogged at WSJ Speakeasy]