I just added this section to the 🔴 Deep Background “page” of this blog. Thinking it would be “lost” otherwise and not noticed, I am also posting it here as a blog entry. I found out that most of the medical science exists or at least appears to be feasible, if anecdotally. My guess is that the show has access to experts in addition to what the writers come up with. Continue reading ‘🔴 Is TBL’s Med Sci Believable?’
Blurb: Monarch Douglas Bank, the preferred bank of the criminal elite, has been robbed – but no money was taken. Red’s ex-wife, Naomi Hyland, has been captured by Berlin who promises to send her back “piece by piece.”
Nothing bothers me more than snarky reviews. Or reviews that seem intended to show how knowledgable the reviewer is rather than tell me something insightful about the show. So I thought I’d turn the tables and review the reviewers. I found all The Blacklist season finale [2:22 Tom Connolly] reviews that showed up on the my first two Google pages and graded them for how helpful and insightful I thought they were.
Maybe even more useful, I took at look at their internet sites and graded those, too. Here, I was looking for functionality as well as for organization and interest. Continue reading ‘🔴 Review of Reviews’
Blurb: Convinced she can lead him to the Fulcrum, Luther Braxton has captured Liz and is going to use a doctor to retrieve her memories. Red is hot on his trail. He too wants to know what she remembers about a fire when she was 4 years old. Second part of two.
Blurb: Liz is being framed for the murder of a U.S. Senator as The Cabal tries to stir up trouble with Russia. Red does what he has threatened for 20 years and Cooper gets a new prognosis. The Season 2 Finale.
Blurb: Liz prevails on Red for information about the photo of the woman with the small girl she found in Red’s secret flat. Red captures a cabal member to get information on an upcoming attack and a smuggler of dead bodies reveals he’s just smuggled in one very much alive.
Blurb: A billionaire is funding research to lengthen human life, but the doctor in charge is taking the research in a very different direction. Tom is faced with threats to his life and seeks refuge.
Nan, who contributes generously to the WSJ Speakeasy blog, has (with the help of her talented sons) produced a high tech transcript of the argument Liz/Masha hears on the night of the fire during her dream recall session in 2:10 Luther Braxton, Part 2. This is a much more complete version than the other two versions I posted earlier http://wp.me/pDKwi-CD. It is very helpful in interpreting what happened on that fateful night. The link for this discussion is: http://on.wsj.com/1ydAfLs Continue reading ‘🔴 Analysis Memory Recall Session’
🔆 This❗️⋙ The “Clickable Tag Index” has been updated through Season 6. It includes character names, titles, locations, themes, key quotes and major plot points. This powerful tool gives you capabilities for searching this site that go beyond the “Search” button. But it is tricky. I’ve posted instructions here.
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🔴 Final Scene: Season 6
Brief (Where we’re at): Red has been abducted – by Katarina Rostova, Liz’s mother and notorious KGB/Cabal operative and femme fatale. Having found out that Ressler had stirred up Russian interest in her by his search for her, Red reached out to a friend (“mystery man”) who located Katarina living in Paris. Red found her walking alone along a dark Parisian street on a rainy night and called her name. She turned and recognized him, “Raymond.” She walked up to him and kissed him, deeply. “Are they watching?” she asked. “It’s not safe. You’re not safe,” he answered, followed by another deep kiss. Then she took out a hypodermic needle and jabbed him in the gut with it. He looked at the needle, then collapsed. A car drove up, two men got out of it, loaded Red into it and drove off. Katarina picked up his fedora and, twiddling it, walked on, smiling slightly.
Red has been friends with the mystery man since childhood. Not only did the mystery man cast doubt on the story Dom told to Liz about Ilya Koslov’s past with Katarina, he looks a little like an older Ilya himself. Not only do both he and Red know Dom, both refer to Liz as “Masha,” and both agree it was concerning that Dom told Liz “that story.” According to Dom’s account to Liz, Red was in fact Ilya Koslov before taking on the identity of Raymond Reddington. The reason Red gives for Dom’s story was that Dom wanted Liz to be able “to move on.” And in fact Liz has moved on, with her daughter Agnes, now about four, coming back home to live.
The Season 6 “plot against America” uncovered by former MI6 agent Christopher Miles turned out not to be a plot to assassinate the President at all but rather a plot by the President to assassinate the First Lady, who wanted him to come clean about a drunken car accident four years earlier that had killed a woman and her son. Liz and Ressler interrupted the shooting just in time to throw off Mr Sandquist’s shot, but Sandquist turned the tables and accused them of being the assassins, so they were arrested. (They had just earlier escaped from the Post Office along with Aram and Cooper in a break-out masterminded by Liz.) Red intervened by ramming the police wagon they were in and, after a shootout, Anna McMahon was just about to execute Red when Dembe(!) appeared and shot McMahon. So Dembe is back! “I said I needed to follow my own path. I did. It led me back to you.” But more trouble is in store. Dembe tells Red “Our friend in Miami says the Townsend Directive is in play,” so it’s possible being held captive by Katarina Rostova may not be the worst of Red’s problems.
🔆 This❗️⋙ The next episode of The Blacklist likely airs September 2019 in the US, at 7pm CT.
*Note: Twitter “Moments” are stories told in series of Tweets. I’m now using them for the Episode Tweets I send out on Twitter the afternoon before each new show. They read like a photo comic book of each episode.
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New‼️ ⋙ If you’re a Lizzington fan – or even if you’re not – check out Φαιη Βλαχογιαννη’s analysis ⭕ “Beyond Lizzington”.
⋙ The “NBC Blacklist” Twitter List has passed 1100 members‼️ http://bit.ly/1E7TeLy It’s tweeps who use #TheBlacklist in their Bio, Header Photo or Avatar @NBCBlacklist @BlacklistRoom (under my other acct @Auriandra) ~ You can subscribe if you have a Twitter account. If not, just follow this link: https://twitter.com/Auriandra/lists/nbc-blacklist
⋙ Note: This “Clues” page is updated for Season 6. If you are looking for something no longer on this page, you may still be able to find it in the Attic.
Episode 5:16 Highlight: Red’s warning to Garvey (2mins 17secs)
Episode 5:10 Highlight: Sins should be buried (1min 25secs)
Episode 5:9 Highlight: Don’t mess with Liz (3mins 48secs)
Stay with Me (“Sound of Silence” segment from 5:8 Ian Garvey) (4:37 mins)
Last Scene 5:8 Ian Garvey – Liz Loses Everything (3:11 mins)
Andra Day sings “Rise Up” at the Global Citizens Festival NYC 9/23/2017 This Song from 3:10 The Director – Conclusion, is my favorite song of the series so far. It really captures Red & Liz’s on-again off-again relationship.
There is an “Cast and Crew” Twitter list set up by NBC. Instructions on how to follow my Twitter List “NBC Blacklist” are below.
A Twitter List allows you to see all the Tweets of those who are “members” of the list.
For “NBC Blacklist” this includes:
1. Everyone on NBC’s Blacklist “Cast and Crew” Twitter List,
2. Many magazines and blogs following The Blacklist, and
3. Many fans who feature The Blacklist in their Twitter handle, avatar, Twitter bio or header photo.
Alternatively, you could follow the hashtag #TheBlacklist or NBC’s Twitter accounts @NBCBlacklist or @BlacklistRoom (Blacklist Writers), but people don’t always include these in their Tweets.
Especially around the time the show airs, a lot of people will be Tweeting about the show and following along on Twitter puts you in the middle of the action.
To subscribe, you need a Twitter account. Log in, then find @Auriandra and “Subscribe” to “NBC Blacklist” under “Lists.” Then select “Tweets” (vs “Members”) to see the Tweets of the 1000✛ people on the list. Caution: They are from all over the world and in many languages! ♡ ི•̮͡• ᤢ ྀ ♡
Note: Although my Blacklist-oriented Twitter account is @BlacklistDCd, I set up my Blacklist Twitter List before I created that account, so the Twitter List is still under my general Twitter account @Auriandra.
I looked up Reddington’s birthday on the on-screen display of the female security guard in the very first scene of the pilot: Feb 7, 1960, same as James Spader (enhanced screenshot: http://bit.ly/1zkNgXZ ). If he “graduated at 24 from the Naval Academy,” that would have been in the spring of 1984 (simple date arithmetic). My husband was on the Honor Committee at West Point and every single time cadets went off base, when they came back they had to sign a statement saying they were “unmarried, … and have no incurred obligations of parenthood” http://1.usa.gov/105GExy. If that signed statement was found to be false, they could be kicked out.
🏵 Below are links to Each Individual Script,* including cast list, lyrics and YouTube videos for songs, photos and Twitter links. “Episode in Tweets” includes links to all the photos (with narration) I post on Twitter.
🏵 Or you can select the “Easy Search” option, which includes all scripts for a season, stripped-down for easy searching.
🏵 Finally, the “Storybook” (Seasons 3, 4 and 5) provides recaps of episodes, based on the scripts themselves, with photos. For Seasons 1 and 2, there are “Highlights” with photos along with selected quotes. In addition, there are slideshows with captions of entire episodes and, for Season 1, of special scenes.
*Exception: There are no individual full scripts for Season 1 (with the exception of the Pilot), as I only began watching the show in Season 2. Instead, the links below take you to the right script in the Easy-Scripts file for Season 1.
🔴 S2 Unanswered Questions
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🔴 S2 Unanswered Questions
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