by Pat, creator of Sports Slam
On Monday Nights at 10 pm on NBC the show, “The Black List” appears. The main characters on the show are Raymond “Red’ Reddington, who is played by James Spader, and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Keane, who is played by Megan Boone.
The preface of the show is Raymond Reddington has evaded authorities for decades and decides to finally turn himself in randomly. When he turns himself in, he compromises a deal with the United States Government to give them a list of names or terrorist organizations, black market names, names that they have no idea existed in exchange for immunity for all of his crimes. The only condition is that Reddington must talk to new Agent Elizabeth Keane who is not even fresh out of Quantico.
Throughout the season, Agent Keane confides in Reddington about the ongoing cases she is a part of and Reddington helps her find the criminals of the show. He only gives the names on his “Black List” of the certain people who have wronged him over the years such as stealing money from him for no reason. He eventually begins to little by little give the FBI names that eventually lead them to arrests. Reddington’s main goal is to find what happened to his family years ago on Christmas morning that made him turn against the United States Government. Many of the viewers suspect that Agent Keane is his daughter because she in fact has no idea who her parents were and would like to know who they were.
For some reason throughout the whole season, Reddington keeps on calling Agent Keane, Lizzie, but she in fact hates being called that and cannot understand why he calls her that. He acts like this father figure to her to show her how the world really works and always tries to make her safe whenever she goes out into the field.
Reddington also tries to make her understand that people around her might not be what they seem. He says that her husband, who is employed as a 4th grade school teacher is in fact a spy for a secret organization of a foreign country. Agent Keane refuses to believe it even though she discovers a box full of passports with fake names of her husband’s picture. Later throughout the season hints are dropped along the way to Agent Keane where she finally opens her eyes and realizes that Reddington was right and her husband is not who she thinks he is.
There are three more episodes of the season and hopefully Lizzie will be able to expose her husband for who he is and be able to find out what happened to her parents or if Reddington is her father after all. Also if Reddington will finally make peace with himself to see what really happened to his family on Christmas. Time will tell to see how this season plays out. If you are not watching this show, I highly recommend and you will be hooked after when you watch the first episode of the season.
Rated E... 