Jaw Dropping Ending: The Blacklist Redemption "Whitehall"/"Whitehall: Concussion"

I've decided to combine both episodes together because I just felt it needed that and it was a two part episode too.

In the episode "Whitehall," after Scottie learns of Tom's true identity, she brings him to get information on what he knows. That's what I call a family reunion. As Solomon torches Tom for some time, beating the crap out of him, Tom escapes and meets up with Howard, who escapes as well.

Howard and Tom work together trying to get to Whitehall. We finally learned that Whitehall isn't a blueprint at all but a person that's being held from Scottie in a undisclosed location. Tom and Howard breaks in and gets Whitehall out but is stopped by Solomon and Nez. Nez double crosses Solomon as he takes Whitehall but Howard, Tom and Nez got the suitcase and soon Howard comes out of the shadows to bring down Scottie saying that she's out of her mind on national television.

In the second episode "Whitehall: Concussion,"   Howard sets up a plan for Tom and Nez to break in the Halycon while he comes in meeting with the board members about this whole mess that he called on television. Things were going well until Solomon gets Whitehall out and Scottie during a lock down and heads off but soon Whitehall is captured by Tom and Nez while Scottie and Solomon escapes.

As the tables turns, things become clearer and clearer that maybe we got the wrong person thinking that they're good. When Scottie looked at the project she sees that she was the one that set the project up but she knows she didn't even after looking at the paper work. Soon Tom and Nez comes in and takes her down while Solomon escapes once again.

Scottie is taken in to custody and things were looking good until Scottie's assistant, Kat comes to find out that Scottie was telling the truth and that the guy that they have been both seeing a buffed up therapist, who was really working with Howard and his team. Making it that Howard was the guy not to trust, which makes Scottie the one who's telling the truth and we see that Howard and Whitehall were teaming together and sees their project coming together leaving at that.

I thought this was one hell of two episodes, thank god it was a separated and not made into a two hour event, for which I would have loved too. The show really tied almost everything but left things in the open that I really want a second season. PLEASE NBC RENEW THIS SERIES!!!! Terry O'Quinn was very, very good in these two episodes and really played Howard so well that I really thought he was the good guy in all of this, boy did he really play us. Even Janssen was amazing as well. The writing was so so solid and can't say enough about the acting as I just did.  But I do want to give a shout out to Theodora Miranne, who really shined in the season finale episode and that I hope if the show comes back that she'll come back.

Overall, I give this two part season finale 8.5/10 and the season a 8/10.

You can catch The Blacklist when it returns tonight at 9/8c with a two part epic return that I'm sure of you don't want to miss out on.

The Truth and Flight: The Blacklist Redemption: "Boreals 301" & "Hostage"

"Boreals 301"

When Tom and the team face terror, they'll have to go up in the sky to capture them in the act.

When a group of military men of thieves try to steal classified material, Tom and Solomon goes undercover to find them before it's too late and they'll have to find these men on an airplane. Things get a bit dicey for the two guys as things went south. But they didn't know that the classified would be a person, who happens to be kidnapped by someone who wants to win her back.

As Tom saves the plane from going down, Solomon jumped out with one of their men and tries to get him to speak. Just watching Solomon talk is like watching Reddington tell a story as it's just well entertained.

Tom and the team finds Solomon and soon traced the others as well, saving the classified person.

Meanwhile, Howard gets Tom to find one of Scottie's folder that has information of the mission of Whitehall. Tom couldn't find it at first but after the mission when he tries to talk to her, he spots a comic book and soon leaves and buys the same comic book and uses it to decoded the message left on there which proves Howard's theory that Scottie is a bad person but by the time Tom figured it out Solomon captured Howard.

 This was a very good episode. This was a very well entertained, well written too. I couldn't get enough of Solomon and Tom scenes as they're just filled the screen with memorable moments. I'm still in the middle of who to trust now that it seems Howard is telling the truth about Scottie. I feel like a ping pong ball that hasn't gone out yet. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

"Hostages"

With a family held hostage to get someone back, Tom and the gang must save and bring the person the kidnappers want back. But that was just the tip of the ice berg here as there's more.

A wealthy family gets kidnapped from professional kidnappers and for exchange the leader wanted one of the guys that was captured by the government. Tom and the team try to do what they do to satisfied them til they find the guy they are asking for and who they were asking for was a man who happens to be the kidnapper's brother.

Tom find the man and tries talking to the man to come and that he'll be safe. As they make the exchange, Tom tries to follow them but after losing them, they found a better way of tracking as the kid took their cell phone.

Tom, Nez and Solomon made they're way into the warehouse where the guy was being held up and the shocking thing was that the man that coordinated this was the family's lawyer, what a twist. They swept in and saved their guy and the man's brother helped too.

But this episode really took off when Tom tries his best to save Howard from the hospital that Scottie. Tom breaks in and tries to get Howard out but he gets caught and soon Scottie figures out who's working with Howard and got him out that she even went to Howard and demanded answers about Tom til he tells her that Tom is her son. She freaks and tries calling off the hit from Solomon on Tom and after the third time telling Solomon he does.

This episode was so so good, mostly because of how Scottie learns Tom is working with Howard and that he's her son. I thought that was so good and eve intense as well. Of course, it was great to see Cooper on the show, I can't wait to see him when The Blacklist returns. I thought this was Jansen's best performance on the show so far. The writing was good for that storyline. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch The Blacklist Redemption Thursdays at 10/9c on NBC

The Blacklist Redemption "Operation Davenport"

When a group of criminals escapes prison, it turns out to be more than what it seems.

When Scottie and the team get called to search for four criminals that has escape prison, these high terrorist, the search didn't really take too long to find them as they were settled in an apartment. But there was one more who had escaped and that person turns out to be not what we would all assume he was to be.

Tom and Nez go after this guy that is still on the run, who is about to take down the NSA and steal secured documents with a little help from Dumont's brother. Their suspect went all the way to go into an underground meeting and take them down and upload their secret files into his flash drive to expose them.

When Tom and Nez get him and tries to bring him in, they get stopped by another team that also brought their suspect in the first place but this time, they wanted to kill him for good. Tom and Nez takes their guy and hides out in a warehouse dodging these guys and realized that this guy might be as innocent as he may seem.

After killing the leader of the group and escaping, the team searches for who these guys were and figured out that these guys were part of the undercover NSA agents that was ordered by the head of the NSA too and caught the guy in the act when using the dead cover agent's cell phone.

Meanwhile, Scottie seems to find the adoptive parents of her son but it turned out not to be her son at all and it was a misguided form Howard to get her hopes away. And not to mention, Scottie growing suspicious with Tom and his appointments as she had Solomon following him but for along can Tom keep dodging this even though Scottie hasn't figured it out yet.

"Operation Davenport" had a very good A plot but the B plot was a bit slow and away at times but after re-watching it . The performance from Ryan and Janssen were very good and there were some very good character development. There were some good scenes, like Tom and Solomon taken down the escaped terrorist and trying to get the cops out of the place after they were called there to check the place out. This was a good episode. Overall, I give this episode a 7.5/10.

You can catch The Blacklist Redemption Thursday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

The Blacklist Redemption "Independence, U.S.A."

Over the waters and into Russia to grandma's house we go?

When the a plane crashes in Russia, but the task force learns that what was near was totally something that could only be a threat to the United States.

When Scottie learns of a plane crash in Russia, he sends Tom and Solomon out to investigate what was near the crash site. It turns out that there's a camp that I might call it The Americans boot camp. As Tom gets photos, Scottie sends him and Nez there undercover and there they are given profile of names and their character bios.

The whole operation was to get these people to train as their characters so well that they would replace the real person in the United States and attack the country. Nez would show as a person to move up in the list to travel to the USA after showing the banker who's really boss after he touched her leg.

Also Tom gets a bit close to his fake life of a wife and bonded pretty good but she turned on him but she got the hit of it when Nez hits her with the car and they escape from Russia. But their plan was underway and with no time, Solomon and his crew got there in time to stop the bombers thanks to his wit and charm.

Meanwhile, Scottie learns that Howard had been searching for their son before he had allegedly died. But also Howard tells Tom that he thinks that Scottie is not who she said she is and that she's an impostor.  But who could you believe in this situation a man who is off his meds or the woman who takes bold moves to get things the way she wants?

"Independence, U.S.A." was very fun and intense episode. I thought the writing was pretty good and that the character performances was good as well. Love seeing Tom and Nez spending some time and getting to know each other, mostly Nez who still has a drug problem. I do love the Howard and Scottie battle as it's getting intense and with next week's episode I can't wait to see what happens next. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch The Blacklist Redemption Thursday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

The Blacklist Redemption "Kevin Jensen"

The team takes on a personal mission that's rescuing a United States journalist.

"Kevin Jensen" opens a personal mission for Scottie that dives into why she wants to get the team into rescuing Jensen. Learning that she's his aunt and that her son Christopher hung out with each other too so it also got personal for Keen too.

The mission seemed to go like any other mission but when Rom brings in a moving truck to the broader of the country, they spot the secret of hidden guns, Tom bails leaving the team with no guns at all.

Scottie gets in touch with a friend over there and after talking him to agree with a deal (agreeing to give his daughter (who can't sing) a record deal). But when Tom and the gang sees the box that was suppose to be full of guns was just a couple of automatics and handguns not enough, but Tom comes up with a plan of getting in as one of the soldiers and rescue Jensen inside.

Keen and Solomon goes in and after getting Jensen, things take a turn and Nez had to come in and rescue them. Hiding from the cops, they wait til they get the word of heading to the US Embassy, but Jensen needs his laptop and notes at his place, something that he's been working on so hard and while the group was talking he escapes to get his stuff.

Putting everyone there at risk, Keen and the gang gets Jensen back and tries to make it to the Embassy but a roadblock is in front of them and hits them. Tom, with a concussion, gets Jensen out, who's hurt pretty badly. As they get Jensen in the Embassy, Tom goes back and gets his laptop but when he comes up to Jensen, laying on the ground as CPR is performed, Jensen is dead. Not only does it hurt Tom but it puts Scottie in an emotional state that we've never seen her before.

Scottie and Tom meet with the Secretary of State and others and is informed that Jensen was working for the CIA as an agent pretending to be a journalist over there. And that Jensen's mother will never know what he has done, Scottie didn't even tell her about it.

I thought that this episode was pretty good. It did show us Scottie's personal and emotional side, for which I enjoyed watching since this lady seemed to be a cold person from the start. There were some good moments and humorist moments too, mostly from Eggold, Gathegi and Martinez. The writing was good as well. Overall I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch The Blacklist: Redemption Thursday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

The Blacklist: Redemption "Leland Bray" Series Premiere

The Blacklist Redemption has everything that The Blacklist has but with more fun and thrills to had to it's adventures.

The new Blacklist spin-off The Blacklist Redemption premiered after the winter finale of The Blacklist Thursday and let me just say, I had more fun watching than any spin-off I've seen.

When a CIA operative has been kidnapped along with her son, Scottie Hargraves gets Tom Keen and her team of Solomon, Nez and Dumont together to help rescue her. Both Keen and Solomon puts their differences aside and worked together.

When they rescue the CIA agent, she escapes fearing that the kidnapper still has her son and will kill him. Tom sees that there was a bomb put inside her and learns that she's gone to take her own team out with that bomb. But the team gets there in time and gets the bomb out of her thanks to Keen and Dumont teamwork.

But also, Keen learns that his father is still alive, after learning three weeks ago on The Blacklist that he had died in a plane crash. He tells Tom that he believes that his mother (Scottie) tried to kill him to own his company.

He also wants Tom to work with her as well for which he does after a nice adventurous time with the team and shows him the connection between his disappearance 30 years ago and killing his father connecting to Scottie.

As much as I love The Blacklist and worried about a spin-off (like everyone should be) I really enjoyed the first episode of the series. We get that classic Blacklist mythology hook but added with the thrills and fun of a spy genre drama. I enjoy watching Ryan Eggold and Edi Gathegi scenes together, you just know that their characters hate each other as it's like watching the classic show The Man from U.N.C.L.E. And the editing is another thing too that really draw me into the show with those three scenes at once when they try to kidnap the kidnapper's girlfriend from the pool. I believe this show has a very good premise and would do great down the road. I hope the true Blacklister fans will give this series a chance and that down the road, might be a couple of cameos from Red himself?

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch The Blacklist: Redemption Thursday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

The Blacklist "The Architect"

When the job calls on high tech hacking, leave it up to Aram to handle it.

"The Architect" isn't my favorite but yet it could have been a bit better. As Red tries to figure out who ordered to take his business down while the FBI wants to do something more than just helping Red's business.

The story lot with Red was good as he tries to freeze Isabella Stone in a freezer. He demands answers and she gave him those answers, mostly who she was married too and how she misses him, along with a mysterious band card and note of what to do. As soon as Red gave her back to the FBI, he saw the owner of the bank to look into the bank card. But when he gets word back from his banker, he tells him that the card belongs to Red. Someone's backstabbing Red, my best guest would be one person: Kaplan. Just a a guess.

Meantime, one of the highlights of the episode was to watch Red and Cooper get into it and this time Cooper is pissed off because of Red taking Stone away from them to get his answers. So Cooper demands a big name, a big one from his list like he wants someone so juicy and challenging, so the Architect comes into play.

Liz and the team go on a scavenger hunt and solving puzzles to get to an underground place called Black Mass. After solving the puzzle the one person who knows computer hacking has to go undercover once again and that would be Aram. Aram gets picked up and taken to what looks like a hacking party until the games began on who would be the fastest to hack into the system. Oh and a familiar face is there too...Elise.

As soon as the games begin, Aram wins with the fastest time but then guns go off and The Architect appears and asking for the winner. Aram and Elise hide for a moment and soon The Architect takes Aram and gets him to hack the highly secured prison in West Virginia. While Aram was working, he puts a USB in the laptop and that let know where he was located.

The Architect wanted to get one of the prisoners who was on death row get out. There doesn't seem to be any real reason that he's doing this, which got me lost for one. But the plan fell through and The Architect tries to drive away but Aram uses his Mark-5 missile on him within seconds.

As I said, this episode wasn't my favorite as it didn't have enough story development with mostly the blacklister. Brent Spiner looked amazing as The Architect, looked fearful at times but I just didn't think that his story plot didn't seem to be good. I thought Aram was pretty good and him meeting Elise during this mission was quite fun even between Elise and Samar. And Tom's story was better than the blacklister. There were some memorable moments Elise and Aram having a moment in the storage room. Also both times, Red and Cooper on the phone and in person, I just love watching Lennox and Spader have a scene together if it's bad or good. Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.

You can catch the winter finale of The Blacklist Thursday at an earlier time: 9/8c on NBC that will be followed with the series premiere of The Blacklist Redemption at 10/9c on NBC.

The Blacklist: Redemption 1st promo

The first official teaser for the spin off series The Blacklist: Redemption was released Sunday night during the Golden Globes.

Here's a look at it!

The Blacklist: Redemption premieres Thursday, February 23 at 10/9c on NBC.

NBC Sets It's 2017 Midseason Premieres

On Thursday it was announced that NBC has reviled it's 2017 midseason schedule. The Peacock network is handing off This Is Us Tuesday tine slot to a pair of new comedies, with Shades of Blue relocating to Sunday nights. And The Blacklist spinoff, will take over the mothership's Thursday at 10/9c slot for two months.

Here's the breakdown:

TUESDAY: When This Is Us wraps it breakout first season in late February, back to back episodes of the freshmen comedy Trail & Error (starring John Lithgow) will fill that 9/8c slot. The series will debut with a single episode on March 7 at 9:30/8:30c after a 90 minute episode of The Voice, before going full hour mode starting March 14. And on April 25, back to back episodes of Great News (from 30 Rock duo Tina Fey and Robert Carlock) will take over the timeslot. BTW: This Is Us returns Jan. 10th.

THURSDAY: When The Good Place ends it's first season, DC Comics' Danny Pudi-Vanessa Hudgens comedy Powerless will take over the post-Superstore timeslot at 8:30/7:30c beginning Feb. 2. Meanwhile, The Blacklist: Redemption will launch on Feb. 23 in The Blacklist: Original Falvor's 10/9c slot, and will remain there for eight weeks. The Blacklist will return with original episodes on April 20th.

SUNDAY: Here's where NBC is bring back traditional family night and dramas night. Last season's biggest hit, Little Big Shots, will kick off season 2 on March 5th at 8/7c, where it will be followed by the series premiere of Dick Wolf's latest Chicago offshoot, Chicago Justice at 9/8c and Season 2 of Shades of Blue at 10/9c.

Also to mention: Late Night is taking on New Year's Eve as Seth Meyers with will host NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers New Year's Eve Special. The show will air Saturday, Dec. 31 at 10/9c, the hourlong special will feature appearances by Jennifer Lawrence (Passengers), Arnold Schwarzenegger (The New Celebrity Apprentice) and SNL's Leslie Jones with the addition of Kelly Clarkson who 'll perform "It's Quiet Uptown" from The Hamilton Mixtape.

NBC Announces Fall Schedule

On Wednesday, NBC has become the first broadcasting network to announce their Fall TV premiere dates, for which will kick off on Sept. 14 with Blindspot's Season 2 opener following the America's Got Talent finale. Chicago Fire will in the meantime will be bring up the rear as they won't launch their Fifth season until mid-October.

Also to note, the new Kristen Bell/Ted Danson comedy, The Good Place, is getting a very good spot to air a sneak preview after The Voice's Season 11 premiere before moving to it's regular Thursday home. While the new buzzy drama This is Us will start off airing Tuesday at 10, after The Voice, before moving it's regular time 9pm.

Here's NBC Fall Schedule:

Thursday, Sept. 8th
8:30pm Sunday Night Football

Sunday, Sept. 11
8:30pm Sunday Night Football (time slot premiere)

Wednesday, Sept. 14th
8pm America's Got Talent season finale (two hour)
10pm Blindspot

Monday, Sept. 19th
8pm The Voice
10pm The Good Place (preview two episodes)

Tuesday, Sept. 20th
8pm The Voice
10pm This Is Us

Wednesday, Sept. 21st
8pm Blindspot (time slot premiere)
9pm Law & Order SVU
10pm Chicago PD

Thursday, Sept. 22nd
8pm Superstore
8:30pm The Good Place (time slot premiere)
9pm Chicago Med
10pm The Blacklist

Friday, Sept. 23
8pm Caught On Camera with Nick Cannon
9pm Dateline

Monday, Oct. 3
10pm Timeless

Tuesday, Oct. 11
9pm This Is Us (time slot premiere)
10pm Chicago Fire

Here are shows that are tap for midseason or later: The Blacklist: Redemption, The Carmichael Show, Celebrity Apprentice, Chicago Justice, Emerald City, Great News, Marlon, Midnight Texas, Powerless, Shades of Blue, Taken and Trail & Error.

I think that Grimm will get the late October premiere like they always get before Halloween.

The Anti-Red Team: The Blacklist "Alexander Kirk (No. 14)

Meet the Anti-Red team of The Blacklist, a team that can do more than what the FBI or the United States will do in a crisis. And man did this have it's own Blacklist twist and turns.

After Red's highly convincing way to get to talk with Susan Hargrave, now she must help him find Liz's killer, Alexander Kirk. Hargrave was the contractor under Kirk who tried to take Liz from Red but failed.

So in order to get Kirk, Hargrave and her team needs to do what the FBI and US can't do, do things clean, illegal and a lot dirtier as well. Red talks to one person that probably doesn't want to do it...Tom Keen, but he wants the man responsible to pay so he agrees to tryout for the team.

Solomon walks with Tom through what was the coolest intro of where their headquarters are at and the team looks so familiar like Red's team. So the their plan is to take Kirk's money out before he can. So they put a scene of robbing the bank, but during that mission a kid gets shot and things went a little side track but made for one of the thirds most thrilling scenes.

When they got the the papers of Kirk's money they need a password, as soon as they get the password, they're gonna need a retinal scan of Kirk's accountant eye. Tom comes up with a plan to go in and take the guy out, but didn't think well that after drugging him his eye becomes an issue. So they needed to make a stop to get some eye drops but before leaving Tom shoots Solomon and leaves him for dead but escapes before the cops get there.

It's Solomon, he can escape from anything.

With the tradition of The Blacklist thriller, they get into the bank account and withdraw from Kirk's money into the FBI's account. Close but got the money in time, Hargrave than calls on Red about the drop is done.

With a senator, who's running for President, calls on Kirk about the money. Hargrave and Red make a surprising appearance and forces the man to bring Kirk out on indictment.

After we see that Tom, Cooper, Samar, Ressler and Aram are at Angus' christening. Tom makes a speech to them about how he's so happy that him and Liz has a family like them, since he doesn't know or have a family to see. We see Angus's christening but in the distance is Red watching from behind the doors. Breaks my heart.

But soon, Tom drives to Hargrave's home to finish the job, kill her. But when Red calls him in time, he tells Tom that if he kills her that the past that he is looking for will be gone forever. Because Hargrave is Tom's mother, but she doesn't know that her own son is alive.

Yeah there's the twist that we're looking for and along with that she hires Tom to join her team.

There you go, that is the backdrop pilot to The Blacklist spin-off, which broke news over the weekend that NBC has picked up as a series and will premiere sometime during the midseason. The name of the spinoff will be called "The Blacklist: Redemption."

This was a great episode. If I had to chose between this episode and Chicago PD's episode of Chicago Justice, it would probably be this one. But I love both of them and can't wait to see both spinoffs.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch the season finale of The Blacklist Thursday, May 19th at 9/8c on NBC.

And look for The Blacklist as it returns in the Fall back on Thursday nights but at 10/9c.