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The Blacklist - Season 1
For decades, ex-government agent Raymond Red has been one of the globe's most wanted fugitives. But then he agreed to work with the FBI to catch his blacklist of mobsters, spies and international terrorists. Starring James Spader, Megan Boone and Diego Klattenhoff.
15 August 1962, Ponce, Puerto Rico
2 April 1950, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
6 December 1963, Odense, Denmark
1962, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
September 23, 2013
I think Megan Boone could develop her own following - she's engaging and believable - but this is Spader's game and he plays it with gusto.
September 23, 2013
It's a fast-paced mystery that's just plain entertaining.
September 06, 2013
Portraying a brilliant criminal mastermind who opens the drama by turning himself in to the FBI, demanding the presence of a specific rookie agent, he (Spader) is effortlessly captivating.
September 23, 2013
The marvelous action sequences and intriguing plot twists should lift it above any standard procedural.
September 23, 2013
Neither The Blacklist, nor its star, James Spader, are taking themselves too seriously, thankfully, which makes the show that much more of a pleasure to watch.
September 23, 2013
Yes, it's a preposterous premise, and Boone as well as the character she plays are in over their heads, but if NBC is willing to spend money to make this formula work, it could have a hit on its hands.
September 23, 2013
Spader is amusingly smug and hammy, as he manipulates the FBI honchos, Keen, and the criminals who think he's on their team. Even so, there is nothing in the pilot that makes me eager to return.
September 23, 2013
The Blacklist is never going to be anyone's idea of great art, but at least it has a pulpy kind of momentum that may well be worth watching for a while; I will stick around to see whether Spader's performance really is the only dish on the menu.
September 19, 2013
The Blacklist is watchable but patently unbelievable and increasingly unpalatable.
May 05, 2017
For now, Spader is the cat, and we are all his mice.
September 23, 2013
C'mon, producers. Upend the procedural. Let Spader run loose.
