The Blacklist - Up and Down

Since I'm reviewing TV shows, I might as well chime in on what had become my favorite show. The Blacklist. This latest season seems to be chugging along with the writers behind it suffering from writer's block. They don't seem to know what to do with the story line now that everyone knows what they already knew from season one, that Lizzy is Red Redington's daughter.

I already complained about the feeble attempt to make Lizzy look and act tough. She single-handedly killed four assassins from the mob. And that was in the current season opener, so I was thinking this season might have some problems. Then you have the weak stories that followed, which bottomed out with the episode from last week which depicted teen girls married legally to men in their forties and fifties - in America. Since when do teen girls as young as fourteen marry men in their forties or fifties legally here in America? I figure it happens in third world countries, but not in America. And if it does happen here in America, it's because people from third world cultures that came to America brought that custom with them.

But in this show, even though the first depiction was an Indian couple, the next couple was a white man and a white girl, who were AMERICAN. To that I say Bullshit. That doesn't happen legally here. I guess the show's producers didn't want to be accused of racism, so they made sure a white couple was also involved in that farcical situation. I cannot accept that. It may happen in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, but it doesn't happen with indigenous Americans unless you're talking about David Koresh of the Branch Davidians and other wacky cults which we've seen now and then. But those were NOT legal marriages, so my argument remains valid. And besides, a wacky cult was not the case in this show. The dude was a regular dude, working a regular nine to five job, with a teen as his regular wife. That was bullshit. And when a show throws bullshit at me, it becomes just that. Bullshit.

The latest show contained a new revelation. (Spoiler alert) Red Redington has another daughter, which means Lizzy has a sister (or half-sister.) That whole scenario sucked. Why? Because the man who she says saved her from a state adoptive service was the man who has already established himself as the latest scumbag villain of the series: Ian Garvey, the man who murdered Tom, (Lizzy's husband,) and he also murdered the black cop who was a good guy.

But this new character who says she's Red's daughter has this impression that Garvey is such a great guy. She says the FBI goes after good men, like her surrogate father, (Garvey) and not the really bad men like her real father. (Red Redington.)

So once again we have a completely backward situation, since we know that Red is really not bad, and Garvey really is bad. But it brings me to a new suspicion. I am now thinking that that suitcase of bones that Red is so obsessed with, contains the bones of the real Red Redington, and the man who is pretending to be Red Redington, (actor James Spader,) is the man who killed him and took over his ID. Thus, Spader's Red Redington is the good guy, whereas the real, (and now dead) Red Redington was the bad guy whom this new "daughter" is talking about.

It's getting a little too complicated, but if I'm right, it will be a big twist in the story line. Why? Because everyone to this point believes the suitcase contains the bones of Lizzy's mother, who was Red Redington's former lover. And the reason he is hiding that from Lizzy, and everyone else is because Lizzy's mother, according to Red had committed suicide by drowning herself in the ocean and her body was never recovered.

So if those are her bones, that means his story is false and that's why he is so secretive about those bones and why he so wants to recover that suitcase, to make sure the secret is preserved. But wait. We saw in a flashback of Red, that she did indeed walk into the ocean to commit suicide. So that suggests his story is true, and if it is, then whose bones are those if they're not Lizzy's mother's?

Which brings me back to my new suspicion. Those are the bones of the real Red Redington, and Spader doesn't want anyone to know that he isn't the real Red Redington. Why doesn't he? Heck, I don't know. Maybe to maintain his image as the world's most famous criminal, thus retaining the respect of all the other worldwide criminals with whom he works to varying degrees.

As far as I'm concerned regarding this suspicion, I look at it this way: as long as the James Spader Red Redington is the real father of Lizzy, I guess I'll be okay with that. Even if he's not the real Red Redington. As for the new girl, well, she can be the daughter of the dead Red.

Sheesh. I liked Blacklist a lot better before. As for now? Let's see how this new scenario plays out. If I'm right, then okay. But how long will it take to find out if I'm right? Until then...