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NBC’s series The Blacklist starring James Spader and Megan Boone
Series created by: Jon Bokenkamp
Program air date: 2/11//2016 in the US
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Entertainment Weekly Recap: http://bit.ly/1TcxdE8
WSJ Summary: http://on.wsj.com/240Vcvm
Source: Raw Script from Forever Dreaming: http://bit.ly/1QciD0C (dump of captioning)
Continue reading ‘🔴 Script 3:14 Lady Ambrosia’
Last updated: 10/27/2017
⭕ “Who killed Nik?” (open)
⭕ “Who is Blacklister #1?” (open)
⭕ “What are your favorite James Spader films?” (open)
⭕ “Is Liz really dead?” (closed) (formerly: “What’s up with Liz?”)
⭕ “Who do you ‘ship?'” (closed)
⭕ “Megan is pregnant. Liz should – ?” (closed)
⭕ “Red hould hook up with – ?” (closed)
⭕ “Liz Should hook up with – ?” (closed)
⭕ “Is Red Liz’s father?” (closed)
NBC’s The Blacklist starring James Spader and Megan Boone
Last updated: 10/5/2015 7:10am CT, Program air date: 10/1/2015 in the US
Script Status = Final w music lyrics, Twitter photos
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Episode in Tweets: http://wp.me/pDKwi-4GW
Source: Raw Scripts from Springfield [UK]: http://bit.ly/1VtXhJ6 (dump of captioning)
Created by: Jon Bokenkamp
This poll is CLOSED as of about noon 10/1/2015 at 500 votes. Of these, 269 or 53.8% were from the United States. People from all over the world watch The Blacklist, often days or even a year or more after the show airs in the US. About 90 percent of the traffic on my blog comes from search engines rather than directly from sites like Twitter (only about one percent) or blogs.
Continue reading ‘🔴 Poll: Is Red Liz’s Father? Results’
¤ better than Season One
March 10, 2015
The glue that holds this show together is the mysterious relationship between Elizabeth “Liz” Keen and the enigmatic, irreverent Raymond, “Red” Reddington. The second season is better in many ways than the first. The bad guys are more realistic and the plot lines explore the realm of international politics and important domestic issues. The research into the background of the procedural aspects of the show holds up well, making it “educational TV” for an America naive about matters like neurobiological research, human trafficking, the “down” side of capitalism and the dangers of secret international agendas (electronic surveillance, the various threats to national sovereignty and insidious threats to security) that threaten democracy. Red’s values come into better focus as matters from his past turn out to have national and international implications.
Continue reading ‘🔴 Season Two Review’
Last updated: 6/6/2015 00:00 am, Program originally aired 2/19/2015 in the US
Script Status: FINAL with Twitter image links
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Slideshow Link: https://youtu.be/w-E_mY-RyHA (8/2/2015)
Raw Scripts from Springfield [UK]: http://bit.ly/1Do56Zu (dump of captioning)
NBC Episode Summary: http://bit.ly/1AOHsIM
Blurb: A religious survivalist sect which favors child marriage and polygamy, stores contraband on its grounds for criminals. Red follows up on the instructions Alan Fitch gave him to find a safe in St Peterburg. Red buys Liz an apartment.
Created by: Jon Bokenkamp
Director: David Platt
Writers: Jon Bokenkamp, Daniel Knauf, Vincent Angell
Continue reading ‘🔴 Script: 2:12 The Kenyon Family’
Feb 12, 2015
Daniel Knauf is a Co-Executive Producer and senior writer for The Blacklist. He answers questions about the show during and after it and is quite comfortable with Twitter. I don’t know a better way to re-capture Twitter (but I’ll try screenshots next time).
Below are his Tweets from 2:10 Luther Braxton-2. To find the original full interaction, do a search on Twitter using his handle @Daniel_Knauf followed by keywords from the Tweets below. A number of the early Tweets are comments on the episode action. You can see Knauf’s comic book work at play.
Here are my takeaways:
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@Belle My take on the return of the Stewmaker: Fitch had the Stewmaker send the picture to Red to make him let him know that someone (turns out, Berlin) would be coming after him for the supposed death of “the girl” (Zoë). It may have been that threat that prompted Red to leave Liz with Sam to protect her and to flee because he “believed his life was in danger.”
Continue reading ‘🔴 2:8 Decembrist: Red, The Stewmaker & Redemption’
Episode 1:22 Berlin (Conclusion) – 2013-2014 Season Finale:
1) Liz: You still haven’t told me how Sam was involved in this.
Red: The way Sam told the story was that one night, an old friend showed up at his door scared. The friend told Sam he was leaving town, that he was in danger and that he needed someone to care for a little girl that her father had died that night in a fire. So Sam took the little girl in, and he raised her as his own always sheltering her from the truth about her biological father.
2) Red: Lizzy, there’s something I want you to understand about your father Sam. That night when he took you in–– without hesitation–– Sam made a difficult choice that changed the course of his life. And that’s where you find yourself now. You can turn away and run from it. You can hide from it. And if you choose to do that, I’ll fly away. Or you can face it and confront it engage it. And maybe–– maybe you prevail and rise above it. <<>> I understand. I’ll be on a plane tonight.
Continue reading ‘2:8 Decembrist: Sam & Liz and Red & Liz Parallels (11/25/2014)’
@A.M. @Belle The long post I did on “what happened Red’s family?” (Nov 23 at 3:00 am!) also reached the conclusion that the year of “Bloody Christmas” may have been earlier, perhaps 1987 when Liz was four. I also speculated that Naomi might have had something to do with it and that the memory of “Bloody Christmas” may been why Red didn’t show up in 1990. Remember when he told Madeline Pratt that it was “the reason I haven’t shown up a lot of places over the years.” I’m glad we’re independently reaching the the same general idea. It still doesn’t synch with the age of the little ballet dancer. Who she is remains a mystery. Military academy attendees are not allowed to be married or have dependents. But the writers may not have known that.
Continue reading ‘2:8 Decembrist: Stories, Dreams & Spoilers (11/24/2014)’
What happened to Red’s family? Here’s what I know.
⋙ Diane Fowler: I know the truth, Red, about that night – about what happened to your family. Do you want to know the truth?
Red: More than anything in the world. But if you know the truth, Diane, then somebody else does, too. [shoots her several times] http://bit.ly/1HzBdsu
The biggest overarching question in the story is what tragedy happened to Red’s family, and also, importantly, who that ‘family’ was. It can’t be Naomi & Jennifer – they’re alive. Did Red marry Naomi later? Was the second marriage a ‘cover’?
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12:00 pm November 8, 2014
Rough transcript of interview with James Spader on Season 2 and the mid season finale [possible spoilers] Yahoo http://yhoo.it/1sjniM3
‘The stakes are higher right from the jump. Everybody, every character on the show is facing greater adversity and is in disarray and the show’s opened up… There’s a resolution of sorts but any resolution on our show opens up another door and the resolution is always going to be painful and bittersweet.
‘It started out where people were asking me wanting to know the true relationship between Elizabeth Keen and Raymond Reddington… People are still curious about that, which is good to sustain. I think it’s the burden is on us to sustain that. But I think the thing that I like is that no matter what the past is the nature of the relationship now[!] has become as compelling, and it should be.
‘I think that the journey is more important than the destination and in this case the destination is backwards, going into the past, what those characters are going through in the relationships and the nature of those relationships.’
2:00 pm November 7, 2014
From: IBTimes: Episode 8 Spoilers: The Decembrist http://bit.ly/1E51gD8
Note Spoilers! From an interview with Amir Arison: “A lot goes down in [episodes 8 and 9]…there will be some huge, huge events that will change the direction of the show,” Amir Arison, who plays C.I.A. analyst Amar Mojtabai, explained. Arison added that the crux of the surprises coming might hinge on the relationship between Red [James Spader] and Liz [Megan Boone] saying, “It’s exciting to watch Red and Liz with their own agendas that intersect and may support or not support each other.“
Could be anything. Could be nothing. Liz, it appears, has turned to Ressler for help with Tom. Liz now knows a lot about Berlin’s operation. My guess is she will try to kill him or have Tom do it.
What are the “huge, huge events that will change the direction of the show?” Any ideas?
[Cross-Posted at WSJ Speakeasy]
Why I thought “the girl” could not be Red’s daughter & why that may be wrong (dates, dates, dates):
Continue reading ‘2:6 Mombasa: Is Red Zoë’s father? – reconsidered (10/27/2014)’
I posted a photo montage to Twitter. Here’s the link http://pic.twitter.com/B1dc4lLWV0 It shows the photo from the Stewmaker’s album, the photo in Berlin’s watch and the photo Red gave to Aram (very fuzzy). To me, they all look like the same girl. Red told the guy at the DMV that finding “the Girl” was crucial to [resolving?] his “war with Berlin.” I did not see the photo Red gave to DMV-guy, but I assume Red gave DMV-guy and Aram the same photo.
Continue reading ‘2:6 Mombasa: Zoë, Berlin & Stewmaker (10/27/2014)’
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🔴 Whose “Intentions” Matter?
October 6, 2015
Essay on Artists’ Intentions: 3:2 The Troll Farmer
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