The Blacklist: Luther Braxton (No. 21) Conclusion
February 6, 2015 10:35 AM - Season 2, Episode 10 - Subscribe

Braxton kidnaps Lizzie and subjects her to an experimental hypnotherapy procedure to recover her memory of the fire and The Fulcrum.

This is the second time a major plot point is delivered by a cute toy animal.
posted by Small Dollar (10 comments total)
 
Shoutout to David Strathairn 's role in Alphas with the 'swimming' comment.
And they definitively show us that Red isn't Lizzie's father ... only to wave it away with the memory thing AGAIN.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 2:41 PM on February 6, 2015 [4 favorites]


And they definitively show us that Red isn't Lizzie's father ... only to wave it away with the memory thing AGAIN.

I might have yelled a bit at the screen at that point...and come straight to FanFare to shout some more. I also may have muttered about the reveal of using the bunny as storage, though I suppose it could be argued that it was a clever use of back story.
posted by dawg-proud at 5:52 PM on February 6, 2015


Shoutout to David Strathairn 's role in Alphas with the 'swimming' comment.

Oh, Alphas. I wish more show-runners would follow the John Rogers model of making sure your season has a satisfying conclusion when renewal status is unknown. Now my strongest memory of the show is that damned cliff-hanger.

Sorry Ron Perlman didn't have more to do, but Spader's asides about his corpse were cute.

As ever, I find most everything about the plotting to be silly or incomprehensible, but am happy to keep watching for as long as they can continue to pull in great actors for Spader to do his monologue-ing with. (Oh, lord, wouldn't it be awesome if they could find a role to get Kurt Russell onboard for an episode? And what about Erick Avari?)
posted by oh yeah! at 7:36 AM on February 7, 2015 [1 favorite]


oh, people who should be on the Blacklist - the list itself, not just the show.

Kurt Russel
Erick Avari
John Pyper-Ferguson
Jeffrey Wright
Edward James Olmos
William Fitchner
Saffron Burrows
Sonja Sohn
Margo Martindale
posted by the man of twists and turns at 7:56 AM on February 7, 2015 [2 favorites]


Oh my lord, that line about how he previously thought the best thing in his mouth was petty officer Virginia.... DAMN, DUDE, DAMN.

the man of twists and turns and dawg proud: YEAH. I TOTALLY AGREE. GODDAMMIT SHOW.
posted by jenfullmoon at 3:38 PM on February 7, 2015 [1 favorite]


petty officer Virginia.... DAMN, DUDE, DAMN.

Red was a commissioned officer in the Navy, that was pretty fucking sketchy.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 3:39 PM on February 7, 2015


I was thinking about the whole Reddington/Lizzie thing, and I don't really understand why they keep teasing us with the 'is Red really her father' connection. Red torturing her dad for the Fulcrum, torching the house, and then hearing little Lizzie screaming in the closet, going "my God, what have I become?!" and then rescuing her and placing her with a trusted associate is a totally understandable and explicable backstory. It's a little cliche, but this back-and-forth is bullshit.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 4:01 PM on February 7, 2015 [2 favorites]


Or Brad Dourif!
posted by the man of twists and turns at 1:50 PM on February 11, 2015


And Richard Dean Anderson !
posted by Pendragon at 12:39 PM on February 15, 2015


So, is Reddington going to be #1 on the list?
posted by biffa at 3:43 PM on November 21, 2015


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