Enemy or Hero? The Blacklist "The Corsican (No.20)" Season Premiere, Part 2

Part two of the two-part season premiere of The Blacklist get Liz to ask the question is Red is a good man or a bad man. But it leaves with the biggest twist of all this season.

As Red gets a tip of The Corsican for Liz and the FBI that he's going to bomb the United Nations building passing as someone that is delivering a suitcase to a diplomat. Trying to locate him getting there, Liz and Ressler locate the suitcase but The Corsican is gone in the wind. Donald gets to him in a stalemate but he escapes after shooting a hostage.

While Liz is with the bomb, Red brings a familiar face, who happens to supply the bomb to the Corsican, Maxwell. As Maxwell gets ready to open the case, intense builds at every second. As Maxwell stops the bomb, Red is at the UN General Assembly given one of the greatest speeches in 2019, that was a remark on the history of films and even the cold war.

But when Liz comes in to tell him about the bomb has been stopped, she continues to think of the idea that maybe Reddington that we see isn't all that bad but good as he once again saves people from danger.  Later she calls Jennifer to tell her that they should take a step back, but Jennifer isn't ready to and tells her that they need to see this through.

As Red, Dembe, and Maxwell leave to get some salted pretzels, Red gets confronted by a street police officer asking for his ID but soon arrested him and learns that he's Raymond Reddington. Not only does the Task Force is in shock, but Liz as well and they try to get Red out of custody but since it's an election year, the attorney general isn't dropping it (because she's running for Governor).

Liz visits him and tries to get him to tell about his agreement, but he tells her that someone has betrayed him, someone, close and tells her to look for that person. But when Liz and Jennifer celebrate with a drink, it's Liz that admits that she's the one that betrayed Red and gets emotional about what he could be facing that includes the death penalty. But Jennifer isn't that emotional.

As Liz makes her remarks, Reddington is taken to jail as the Attorney General talks to the press about how she'll hold Red to everything accountable.

This episode, again, amazing, incredible, and just pure shocking moment that really had my heart sunk to the ground at the end of the episode. Megan Boone really shines in this episode like I thought she would this season from Part One of the season premiere. You couldn't even read her with her questioning whether she's gonna to do something to Reddington or not. And what I thought was it was going to be Jennifer that pulled the trigger, even after Liz tells her that she wants to back down because she thinks Reddington is a good man. Boy, was I played.

Does anyone feel that during the final scenes of the episode that it felt like a bit like when Liz was going to jail? Oh man, this is going to one hell of a season, but I don't think that Reddington will be in jail for a long time, I give it at least a few weeks, maybe a month or two.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch The Blacklist on it's new home Fridays at 9/8c on NBC.

Better Strain Than the First: Disjointed Season 1, Part 2

On January 12, Netflix finally released part 2 of season one of the Kathy Bates comedy Disjointed. Here's a look at what Season 1, Part 2 of Disjointed.

If you haven't heard about the series yet, you might not be alone, but if so, Disjointed is about Ruth Whitefeather, an advocate for legalized marijuana usage, who runs a LA marijuana store along with her son and young (as she calls it) "budtenders."

After getting busted by the DEA and taking all their weed, they got back a few months later and celebrated 420. Ruth decides to fight the system and help female empowerment. Meanwhile, Pete deals with being unable to grow the perfect marijuana. He goes through mental issues, from breaking up with "Mary Jane" to being friends with a Bio-nergetic machine.

Olivia's shitballs become a trendy item and get a famous marijuana business person to want to take her product to the top by also selling Olivia's pee (lemonade) or Olivia's vomit (spaghetti sauce). As Olivia took the deal, it caused friction between her and Travis.  Relationships grow between Jenny and Carter, and even Ruth finds some exceptional ones who teach how to use pot for the first time. And Dank and Dabby still find a way to make themselves the most innovative and dumbest group on the show.

Season 1, Part 2 greatly improved from what Part 1 showed storytelling-wise. The writing seemed intense and more structured than the part one. I figured that when the show came back, they would tackle losing the store for a while, but instead, they returned to the store months later and carried on with some side effects from the event.

The humor in the second part was sometimes hilarious, and some weren't. There are fewer commercials at times when watching, but out of some of them, Da Tacos and others, the one that mostly stood out was the NFL Ad about how marijuana helps them deal with side effects of the NFL. Strain of the Day was good at times, too.

Kathy Bates shines again and grows the character of Ruth pretty well from episode one to ten, and when it comes to episodes 18 to 20,  the chemistry between Peter Riegert as Walter and the shocking turn of why he couldn't date her, even after they've had some much fun in the previous episodes.

Along with Bates, Elizabeth Alderfer and Elizabeth Ho were good as well, not to mention that Besty Sodaro and Christ Redd, who plays Debby and Dank, got more screen time and just added more humor than the show could ever take. Aaron Moten and Tone Bell were good as well, and Nicole Sullivan and Michael Trucco were good as well. 

Overall, I give this part 2 of season one of Disjointed an 8/10.

You can catch the entire First Season of Disjointed on Netflix now.