Joanna Milne
So, I have to admit that I loved The Blacklist - until it seemed that the entire world was out to get Liz, and everyone either worshipped at her feet or needed her dead in order to live their lives. It just stretched the bounds of incredulity. So, I had high hopes that Redemption might be a bit of a refresher - even without the wondrous James Spader who is simply AMAZING as Red.Sadly, I have been sorely disappointed. I struggled through the first episode and ten minutes of the second and couldn't take it for another moment. I mean, I knew that Famke Janssen had one persona, which she limps from one role to another, but this was just painful. Did she get surgery done, or is she choosing not to move her face at all?? Even the other actors being moderately better and more engaging couldn't salvage this. And even if we could get around the fact that Scottie is old enough to be Tom's mother - which, technically, Famke Janssen is - just - but the overt (and somewhat gross, to be honest) 'sexuality' she is meant to be portraying is just nauseating. It's a shame, as this could be a really good show, given another female lead, and a slightly more plausible story line, but I'm not willing to give up what feels like years of my life in order to find out.
senorgomezbit
So far I'm enjoying this. Tom makes a pretty good main character, and it focuses on his history and backstory with very little involvement of characters from the original series. I really liked the first couple seasons of the original Blacklist, but the recent story lines around Tom and Elizabeth's daughter became dull and uninspiring. All in all its got interesting story lines and good action sequences.
jtcook-37970
I assume that the name "Blacklist" in this series was taken from the successful series with the same name. The pilot for this new series was encouraging, however the subsequent episodes have been flat and the actors appear to be just sleep walking through each episode. The plot of each episode is hard to follow at times. A real disappointment so far.
Annie Melnikova
It could be a great spin off but somehow they've found the worst writers who absolutely do not know geography, are not familiar with computer technology and don't have any sense of reality.If the original movie was based on a good detective story line, here we see a mess. seems like they've no idea what to write about and get all their points on nowdays political scandals and Santa Barbara.