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🔴 Season Two Review
🔴 Review: Season Two of The Blacklist is even
¤ better than Season One
March 10, 2015
The glue that holds this show together is the mysterious relationship between Elizabeth “Liz” Keen and the enigmatic, irreverent Raymond, “Red” Reddington. The second season is better in many ways than the first. The bad guys are more realistic and the plot lines explore the realm of international politics and important domestic issues. The research into the background of the procedural aspects of the show holds up well, making it “educational TV” for an America naive about matters like neurobiological research, human trafficking, the “down” side of capitalism and the dangers of secret international agendas (electronic surveillance, the various threats to national sovereignty and insidious threats to security) that threaten democracy. Red’s values come into better focus as matters from his past turn out to have national and international implications.
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“I have thought enough about myth and history, fact and fiction, to know truth cannot be told. There is always another way to tell the story” – Norman O. Brown http://bit.ly/1qo9R3n
“If you don’t make any attempt to show the audience anything, then the audience wants to look further and further and further and further… And I think that’s what [Red] does – he doesn’t show a great deal, but he draws you to look further in…”
– James Spader, Talk Stoop interview (9/2/2014) http://bit.ly/1zlb232
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