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Anyone else still watching this? I feel like Mastermind - started so I'll finish - but the stupid 'secret' storyline is really starting to grate, they've tried to eke it out far too long now to the point where I don't really care that much. Somehow, it's been renewed for a ninth season though! I have a horrible feeling that they've spent years 'bigging up' this whole thing so much that whatever the 'reveal' is will be a real anti-climax; "...and then Liz woke up and it was aaaaaaaallll a dream...!"
THAT said, I guess it's better that it does get the chance to actually wrap up than leave it unanswered for ever more (I'm looking at YOU, Firefly, FlashForward and The Borgias...!).
THAT said, I guess it's better that it does get the chance to actually wrap up than leave it unanswered for ever more (I'm looking at YOU, Firefly, FlashForward and The Borgias...!).
boxst said:
DSLiverpool said:
After House (brilliant) I went to Criminal minds (boring) now Blacklist - season 1 really enjoying it.
Blacklist is very good. It gets a bit weird around series 6-7 but then gets back on track.boxst said:
DSLiverpool said:
After House (brilliant) I went to Criminal minds (boring) now Blacklist - season 1 really enjoying it.
Blacklist is very good. It gets a bit weird around series 6-7 but then gets back on track.It should've wrapped up (properly, with real answers) long ago, rather than stumbling zombie-like into a 10th season. Best way I can describe it is like when you tease a pet with a toy but never actually let the pet get the toy. Eventually it gets to the point the pet gets bored, no longer gives a s
t about the toy and wanders off.Whilst there are many shows I'd happily rewatch, Blacklist isn't one of them and it's unlikely I'll even bother with S10.
Same here Funk, we (Mrs and I) are slowly plodding through S9, I am finding myself browsing random stuff on my phone while it is on.
Aram is just annoying. Ressler can't act. Red's two new hangers-on (Mierce and Weecha) bring nothing.
Contrived storylines that go nowhere, schmaltzy music towards the end of every episode.
They should have rolled this up at the end of series 8 and called it a day.
I said to the Mrs last week that I am not going to bother with series 10.
Aram is just annoying. Ressler can't act. Red's two new hangers-on (Mierce and Weecha) bring nothing.
Contrived storylines that go nowhere, schmaltzy music towards the end of every episode.
They should have rolled this up at the end of series 8 and called it a day.
I said to the Mrs last week that I am not going to bother with series 10.
oobster said:
Same here Funk, we (Mrs and I) are slowly plodding through S9, I am finding myself browsing random stuff on my phone while it is on.
Aram is just annoying. Ressler can't act. Red's two new hangers-on (Mierce and Weecha) bring nothing.
Contrived storylines that go nowhere, schmaltzy music towards the end of every episode.
They should have rolled this up at the end of series 8 and called it a day.
I said to the Mrs last week that I am not going to bother with series 10.
Well, despite me saying I wasn't going to bother with series/season 10 (the very last season), the Mrs decided she wanted to watch it and I glanced at it occasionally. Aram is just annoying. Ressler can't act. Red's two new hangers-on (Mierce and Weecha) bring nothing.
Contrived storylines that go nowhere, schmaltzy music towards the end of every episode.
They should have rolled this up at the end of series 8 and called it a day.
I said to the Mrs last week that I am not going to bother with series 10.
What an absolute load of tosh. The main "baddie" - Wuking - the actor should find alternative employment because acting plainly isn't for him.
Same for the new female member of the task force - Siya Malik. Her British accent made me cringe every time I heard it and she also can't act. Wooden. Actually, that's unfair against wood. A piece of wood could have acted better.
The young actress that plays Keen's daughter, Agnes, also can't act. Every time she was on screen I wanted her to shut the F up.
There is also another member of the task force in series 10 - Herbie - the tech guy who replaced Aram. Unsure why they had him played as someone who goes into unnecessarily long detail and discussing stuff that isn't relevant to the subject. Just a weird, out of place, character.
What was also weird was Andrew McCarthy, who directs some of the episodes of The Blacklist as well as being a director on other shows (and was a member of the Brat Pack actors in the 80's), appears briefly in one episode as Red's pilot.
The storylines in each episode (22 of them) are all weak too, after 10 series of this there are only so many ways the task force can identify then capture the person on the blacklist.
Even the conclusion - Dembe lying in a hospital bed displaying the first sign of any emotion over the entire 218 episodes while Red meets an absolutely bizzare fate - makes me wonder if the writers had ingested any halucnogenic substances or if it was written by gibbons during the American writers strike.
If anyone reads this and is part-way through The Blacklist - stop at the end of Series 8.
In a fit of Mastermnd-style 'I've started so I'll finish', I did end up forcing myself to watch it all. I'd come that far, so grudgingly watched the last season and it really wasn't worth it.
If you've never seen it, don't bother starting it. Find something else. The only show that's been a bigger let-down was Game of Thrones.
If you've never seen it, don't bother starting it. Find something else. The only show that's been a bigger let-down was Game of Thrones.
I’ve been wading through this on Amazon Prime and I’ve just been booted out at the end of season five and been told to pay for it now! £8 for season six it seems, looked for cheap DVDs on eBay but they start at £20 and I’ll never watch them again so is it worth ploughing on or is it more of the same? I’ve enjoyed it to be fair, James Spaders character (whoever it now appears that is!) is brill, and I’m glad I found it. Saying that, I can probably find something else to watch as they did get a bit samey over the series.
popegregory said:
I’ve been wading through this on Amazon Prime and I’ve just been booted out at the end of season five and been told to pay for it now! £8 for season six it seems, looked for cheap DVDs on eBay but they start at £20 and I’ll never watch them again so is it worth ploughing on or is it more of the same? I’ve enjoyed it to be fair, James Spaders character (whoever it now appears that is!) is brill, and I’m glad I found it. Saying that, I can probably find something else to watch as they did get a bit samey over the series.
We were the same. Finished season 5 on Amazon a couple of months ago. Much as it was fun to that point and the Spader character was still good, increasingly none of the other characters seemed to really matter and it felt ever more repetative. If Amazon ever open the last 5 series up for free then maybe we'll go back but just don't feel it has enough left to offer to bother paying. Gassing Station | TV, Film, Video Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff