This wasn’t a horrible level for an early-season cliffhanger.
Purple racked up a physique depend on The Blacklist Season 8 Episode 2 which will eternally change his relationship with Liz.
Or possibly not, regardless of what the trailer for the eventual subsequent episode in late January appeared to recommend.
First, let’s handle why hassle launching a brand new season for 2 episodes, solely to go on a vacation hiatus for 2 months? What was the purpose?
Why not simply re-air the ultimate two episodes from The Blacklist Season 7 to whet viewers’ appetites, then come again with The Blacklist Season 8, with extra episodes within the can, within the new 12 months?
That might really feel a complete lot much less disjointed than NBC’s precise method.
Subsequent, let’s give the present’s powers that be credit score for writing off Dominic as completely quickly as attainable.
Dom has been dying a sluggish loss of life even by TV requirements, seemingly for seasons.
Dom sadly could not have been written off with Brian Dennehy’s loss of life earlier this 12 months. Dom needed to move on what he knew to Katarina.
The interrogation by Liz after which Katarina performed a job in Dom’s loss of life, placing an excessive amount of stress on his failing physique.
On the identical time, Dom doomed Katarina when he instructed her every part he knew about M-13 and the Sikorsky Archive. Purple did the one factor he might do to guard his secrets and techniques.
Raymond hasn’t gotten the place he has in life by not having the ability to make the onerous name. He simply had the unhealthy timing to shoot Katarina proper in entrance of Liz.
That is gonna be onerous for her to get previous.
I felt worst for Ressler. He let his affection for Liz overwhelm his skilled judgment and each Liz and Purple took benefit of that.
Now Ressler was in hassle with Cooper for sneaking off to fulfill with fugitive Liz.
On a regular basis, he was simply attempting to do the correct factor for everyone. Sadly, that does not work when everybody was working at cross-purposes.
Liz and Katarina wished solutions from Dom. Purple wished simply the other, to recuperate Dom earlier than the 2 ladies might study something.
And Cooper and the duty power simply wished to get Liz again, alive, earlier than she did something extra felony than taking her grandfather out for an unsanctioned drive.
It is onerous to fault Liz for desirous to know who she is. That is been an enormous chunk for the sequence’ narrative.
It is her method that is been ill-chosen.
This episode, she blasted Purple for the deaths of everybody she cared about: Her father, her husband, her grandfather. Now’s let add Katarina to the record.
However Liz actually performed her half placing all these individuals in hurt’s method in her obsessive pursuit of solutions about her previous.
Little surprise that Liz sided with Katarina, who additionally wished solutions no matter who received harm within the course of.
Plus Reddington gave Liz treasured little of the data she sought. In a way, he drove her to Katarina. So a great a part of what subsequently occurred was on him.
Liz shortly realized that she could not manipulate her mom any greater than she might Raymond. They each gave her as little info as they may get away with.
So she referred to as in Ressler and so they each ended up getting captured by Purple because of this.
When will Liz understand that each Raymond and Katarina have been conserving secrets and techniques quite a bit longer than she’s been alive? She’s in method over her head.
I additionally felt badly for Dembe, one other kindhearted soul caught within the crossfire. He is received an affection for LIz however his allegiance in the beginning is to Purple.
In the long run, Dembe let Liz go when she stole his automobile. However he did not do her any favors as she arrived simply in time to see her mom gunned down.
Liz actually ought to study from Katarina’s unhealthy instance.
Katarina lived within the shadows for years. However she left that relative security behind as a result of she needed to have solutions as to why Dom had betrayed her.
She in the end received all of the solutions she sought, by enjoying on Dom’s dementia. However she ended up solely having these solutions for a couple of hours earlier than her loss of life.
So what good did that do her?
Likewise, what good has Liz’s dogged pursuit of the reality completed her? Tom and Dom are useless and her relationships with Reddington, Dembe, and the duty power could also be broken behind restore.
Certain, she’s realized in regards to the Townsend Group, M-13, and the Sikorsky Archive, however with out the juice she had together with her former connections, what can she do with that info?
There’s received to be an finish sport in sight for The Blacklist.
Liz has worn out her welcome with too many viewers.
Purple is a captivating rogue. However, Liz is infused with a bitterness past her years and retains making unhealthy decisions.
Will the duty power welcome her again yet one more time, regardless of her transgressions? For that matter, will there nonetheless be a process power with the bond between Reddington and Liz ripped asunder?
Finally, Liz must come crawling again to Purple, as a result of he’s the one one that has the solutions she is so desperately searching for. Solely he is unlikely to surrender any greater than he has beforehand.
To revisit their advanced relationship, watch The Blacklist online.
Are you sorry to see Katarina go? How about Dom?
What number of episodes will it take for Liz to recover from what Purple did?
How lengthy earlier than the duty power welcomes again Liz?
Remark under.
Dale McGarrigle is a employees author for TV Fanatic. Observe him on Twitter.