The Blacklist

[PaulG40]

Proper addicted to the Blacklist at the moment. Probably my favourite programme on at the mo.

[BigsimonY]

on sky 3rd of October!!!

[BossHogg]

Just about to watch it.

[VinceFox]

Just watched first one. I'm in. Spader's brilliant.

[BlackST]

Spader is brilliant.
The girl isn't. And she doesn't get any better out of the 7 or 8 episodes I watched.

[Patrick Bateman]

I've only scanned the thread, don't want inadvertent spoilers, but is this worth watching?

[VEA]

Patrick Bateman said:

I've only scanned the thread, don't want inadvertent spoilers, but is this worth watching?

If only for Spader, yes. I actually really enjoy it and don't think the bird is that bad. I guess my standards must be low.

[VinceFox]

It's all been done before and is very by the numbers, but it's worth watching for spader. He carries it.

[BossHogg]

I enjoyed it, Keen doesn't look too shabby in skimpies.

[anonymous-user]

VinceFox said:

It's all been done before and is very by the numbers, but it's worth watching for spader. He carries it.

I got bored of it very quickly in the end. Spader is good, but when they portray him as super-slick and the police/FBI as totally incompetent then you end up with a story that doesn't go anywhere. Plus they suffer from Lost syndrome, needlessly dragging the plot on by having characters not pass on important information for no apparent reason.

"Is my husband a terrorist?"
"I can't tell you right now"
"Are you my father? Did you know him? Did you kill him?"
"I can't tell you right now. But hey, tune in next week and I might!"

[Truckosaurus]

Symbolica said:

...needlessly dragging the plot on by having characters not pass on important information for no apparent reason.

My thoughts entirely, they have come up with a good plot idea but are dragging it out as there will be nowhere to go once things are answered (eg. as in 'Heroes') and they are brave enough to decide that the story's Beginning-Middle-End will last a set number of episodes and they'll plod along until the show is cancelled without the punchline being revealed.

[nonuts]

I think this deserves a lot more credit than it gets, I think the main characters (especially Spader) are great, I totally missed it when the first series was on but watched it on Sky on demand a few weeks ago rather too quickly for a healthy amount of TV viewing!

[boxst]

This is back on in America for anyone that liked it: Episode 9 was yesterday.

[oobster]

Was it a 2-parter last night?

[pidsy]

must be back on here next week?

[Butter Face]

Cheers for the heads up! Will catch up tonight.

[chriswhitlock]

pidsy said:

must be back on here next week?

Its being advertised as being back on Friday 27th Feb

[BlackLabel]

Have recently got into this - James Spader is very good in it! Currently half way through season 1.

[richtea78]

I enjoy it a lot. I quite like the girl.

[gareth_r]

Series two starts again on Monday, and both series are on Now TV (and on whatever the Sky subscribers' version is?).

I quite enjoyed S1 via Now TV, so I've been waiting for S2 to become available.