Blacklist bottoms out

I'm about done with Blacklist. The stories just aren't interesting anymore. They keep coming up with these stupid stories that are both demeaning to Americans and insulting to anyone with intelligence. It makes me wonder about the intelligence level of the writers and producers. Do any of them have an IQ above 100? Based on the episodes this season, I'm thinking no, they don't.

I had mentioned wacky cults in one of my posts in which I was criticizing the story in the episode that began this current season. I was saying that in America only wacky cults would have old men married to young teen girls.(e.g. the Branch Davidians.) Well, in this last episode, that's just what they threw at us. (Us being the TV audience, of course.)

Yep, dipping to a new low, Blacklist has a wacky cult in the main story line. A wacky cult which is isolated in a forested wilderness, led by a failed novelist who forces his wacky community to live under the false pretense that a virus has destroyed humanity. Of course his wife is complicit, albeit he has another wife in the real world who only knows her husband had disappeared.

But a small community, maybe a hundred people, perhaps less, are totally duped by the stupidity, believing that normal people (the outsiders) are infected with the virus, and thus cannot be contacted in any way because of a contaminant, which, when you're infected shows no symptoms, other than allowing you to live in a normal, modern world.

Oh, and anyone who does make contact with a normal person, i.e. an outsider, is therefore sentenced to death via being burned alive. Complete bullshit, you know.

So you have a father who finally decides to not believe the bullshit and he takes his cancer stricken daughter to the outside world so some real doctors can treat her. But of course the wacko cult "guards" or whatever you want to call them, track him down and capture him, but not the girl.

But of course, the girl is eventually captured, (or abducted, see below.) And of course, quite predictably, we get to see the father burned alive, and just as predictably, the cavalry arrives in time to save the little girl. The cavalry in this case being Agent Keene, who else? 

I was never in any suspense, seeing as how it was already so obvious the father would die, but the little girl would not. Not that I wanted to see any little girl die, no one does. Which is why, of course, she didn't. All too predictable. For a change, perhaps we could have had BOTH of them saved. But no. The father had to die, so as to preserve the predictability.

Meanwhile, Red's newly discovered daughter, (newly discovered to the TV audience, that is,) is full of spite and hate and of course never wants to have anything to do with Red, even though he explains, quite feebly I might add, that he had to abandon her to "keep her safe" from the Americans and the Russians who were chasing him.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And of course Lizzy is no closer to learning the secret of the suitcase, although she is still bent on learning it, and the TV audience is no closer to learning the secret either. Except perhaps it's in Costa Rica at this point.

Oh, I forgot to mention that the Iranian girl, whose name I forget, (you know the Muslim FBI agent whom Aram loves in his ridiculously inept way,) is kidnapped. But that was bullshit too. Yeah, I know I complain that a woman should not be able to physically overcome a man who is twice her size, and she didn't. But after knocking her out, the man inexplicably puts her in the van in which he is abducting the little girl. He could have and should have just left her unconscious body on the sidewalk and drove off with his mission being successful. (Abducting the little girl to take her back to that wacky cult.) But for no apparent reasons he throws her in the van with the little girl

Sheesh. Dumb, dumb, and dumber. I suppose I'll finish the season, but I'll expect Blacklist to be canceled once this season is done. With stupid writing like we've been seeing this season, it will deserve to be canceled. A better word would be killed. And it would be a mercy killing at that.