Tuesday, September 14, 2021

The Blacklist: Season 5 (2017-2018) Episode 1

 TITLE:  Smokey Putnam, aired 9/27/2017

          There are 22 episodes in this season.  Reddington gets resourceful, Ressler’s mistake surfaces.  With his criminal empire in ruins, Red enlists Liz in a plan to earn cash and deliver a new Blacklister to the Task Force.

     Following the war between Raymond Reddington and Mr. Kaplan in the previous season, Raymond's greatest secret, the suitcase containing an unidentified human skeleton has been missing.  Raymond and Dembe Zuma desperately search for it. 


     During the search, they are faced by a new adversary Ian Garvey, he is a corrupt U.S. Marshall and drug kingpin.  He wants the suitcase so he can undermine Raymond's criminal empire.  Also he wants to put in danger Raymond's allies, especially Elizabeth Keen.  Elizabeth questions her relationship with Raymond concerning whether he is her biological father or not as was hinted at the end of Season 4.  She later discovers the existence of one person (Fiona Dourif) who has an unexpected connection to Reddington.  This leads to an unsettling discovery at the end of the season.  I did not like this episode and I have not watched the previous seasons.  I thought that James Spader was over the top and this series is not very good.  I did liked the Corvette very much!!!  Consequently, I watched this episode and one more. 2* (I did not like this season)


Crime each episode 43 min directed by Bill Roe, written by Jon Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, Marisa Tam (story editor) with James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold, Amir Arison, Mozhan Marno, Hisham Tawgfiq, Henry Lennix, Michael Aronov, James Carpinello.



Note:  Imdb 8.2* out of 10* with 1.3K reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 100% with 5 critic ratings, 86% with 326 user ratings, tvfanatic.com editor rating 4.5* out of 5*, user rating 4.9* out of 5* with 44 votes, tvovermind.com 4.5* out of 5* user reviews 5* one vote.


Special Note:  The red car Raymond Reddington (James Spader) steals at the beginning of the episode is a 1954 Chevrolet Corvette C1.  Filming location is New York City, New York USA. 


Special Note:  The red car Raymond Reddington (James Spader) steals at the beginning of the episode is a 1954 Chevrolet Corvette C1.  Filming location is New York City, New York USA.  

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