Jim Murray

2 years ago ·

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CPC Feb 3

CPC Feb 3

3 SPUDS
(Seasons 1-8 on Netflix)

I have been catching up with this series, which ap-
pears to have genuine legs It's now in its 9th season,
and | am halfway through season 8 in my catchup
game

I consider the Blacklist to be one of the great net-
work sernes of the last 20 years or so And there are a
lot of good reasons for that

But first and foremost 1s that | do not consider this
10 be anything other than an outrageously plotted
whodunit series | suspended my disbelief the min-
ute the James Spade character, who he made iconic
by the way, walked into the FBI offices and basically
ETL)

After that, you just kind of sit back and marvel at
the cleverness of the writing, especially Mr Spader’s
character, Raymond Reddington, the amazing
collection of great character actors who populate
his nefarious network, and the uber complex plot-
ting, which | can tell you from personal experience
1s a feat of true screenwriting engineering

Mr Spader’s portrayal does something that very
few actors can do, which is to make someone who
1s notoriously evil actually likeable Every once in a
while someone will pull that off Walton Goggins
did 1t to a lesser degree in the great series, Justified
After that the arr gets pretty thin

Anyway, 1 just wanted to give a shout out for
The Blacklist The kind of pure entertainment that
actually 15 a good distraction from a lot of the weird
shit that's going on in the world today

COUCH POTATO
[PL a]

[ACT]

NO SPUD 4U .. SUCKS,
1 SPUD .. NOTHING SPECIAL
2 SPUDS .. WORTH WATCHING
3 SPUDS .. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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