The Blacklist
Created by Jon Bokenkamp
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The… From TMDB
274 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 15, 2026 · last updated Oct 16, 2026 · How this works
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The first seasons of The Blacklist received mostly positive reviews from television critics. The pilot was lauded by the critics, praising the original plot and cast performance, especially by Spader. At the time, it was usually compared with Hostages, which premiered alongside the series, and Homeland due to the mutual connection between the characters of Reddington and Nicholas Brody and the transfer of Diego Klattenhoff, comparing him to Homeland's Mike Faber. David Wiegand of the San Francisco Chronicle said about the pilot, "You think you know this situation and how it will turn out, but there are surprising, yet entirely credible, twists throughout Monday's episode". Brian Lowry said…
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60 of 274 · most liked firstSlow Horses has replaced The Blacklist as the show your gen x coworker has most likely "been getting into". the blacklist held onto the title from 2021 to today. it is the first time an apple tv show has held this honor, and joins ted lasso as the second apple tv show to earn broad coworker approval
neutral · AI labelView post →Heads up, noiristas. The Criterion Channel has programmed a “Noir and the Blacklist” series this month. Especially welcome is the inclusion of Jules Dassin's THIEVES’ HIGHWAY (1949), which decries working-class exploitation with a conviction more associated with Italian Neorealism than Hollywood.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm rewatching The Blacklist and part of me aspires to live like Reddington. No digital footprint, just a series of burner phones.
positive · AI labelView post →On the final season of The Blacklist and it strikes me that it’s the only episodic crime-esque show of its nature that has had trans people in it in prominent recurring roles that never did a grotesque trans episode and also never even mentioned they were trans - they were just actors playing roles.
positive · AI labelView post →The Blacklist: The Complete Series (HD Digital) is $9.99 on Apple TV DOTD buff.ly/zqIrwiW #ad
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you know that the Archive loans hundreds of films to theaters around the world? 🎞 ✈️ Upcoming loans include 9 films + newsreels at the Locarno Film Festival (Aug. 5–15), screening as part of the series “Red & Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist” and “Homage to Roger Corman.” ucla.in/44FRWeA
neutral · AI labelView post →The Blacklist is a terrible show I have watched almost every episode of for ten seasons because James Spader is in it. The stunt casting for his finally-revealed pilot in the antepenultimate episode of the series is just fucking brilliant
neutral · AI labelView post →May 1st (or any day, really) is a great time to listen to our 2016 @rememberthispod.bsky.social series "The Blacklist": www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/201...
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m flying out to Locarno tomorrow. I’m covering the festival for @ebertvoices.bsky.social (so keep your eyes open for that). While there I’ll also be introducing the film POINT OF ORDER as part of the Blacklist series (so if you’re around, come on by!!)
neutral · AI labelView post →Getting to know me through media My all time faves: Game - Bloodborne Movie - The Devil Wears Prada Show - The Blacklist Album - Even In Arcadia by Sleep Token
positive · AI labelView post →I’ve recently become hooked on, The Blacklist. For years it sat on my watch list, but no more. I decided to watch the first episode, just to check it out, and I’ve been hooked ever since. I’m kicking myself for not having watched it sooner. Any fans of the show out there?
positive · AI labelView post →I had the pleasure of introducing Emile de Antonio’s POINT OF ORDER (1964) at Locarno this morning as part of curator Ehsan Khoshbakht’s latest series: RED AND BLACK - HOLLYWOOD LEFT AND THE BLACKLIST.
neutral · AI labelView post →#BlueZicos #MusicChallenge Sunday: a cover song from a TV series 📺The Blacklist 🎶 Sound of Silence 🎤 Disturbed| Simon & Garfunkel youtu.be/QUYfaYE0E9U?...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Blacklist--a series of essays by Michael Gonzales exploring out-of-print books by African-American authors. catapult.co/editorial/to...
neutral · AI labelView post →series 9 & 10 of The Blacklist were awful...
negative · AI labelView post →Saw Fritz Lang's (and "Bert Brecht"'s) Hangmen Also Die last night on @criterion.bsky.social as part of their Noir and the Blacklist series -- extremely well chosen for this moment, especially given its themes of collaboration and resistance.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Ulrich Thomsen (Counterpart, The Blacklist) has been tapped to recur in the HBO, WBTV and DC Studios series Lanterns as DC supervillain Sinestro." deadline.com/2025/01/ulri...
neutral · AI labelView post →My top 10 series !!!!!! 1.Prison Break 2.Game of thrones 3.Vikings 4.Merlin 5.Legend of the seeker 6.Queen of the South 7.The Blacklist 8.Peaky Blinders 9.The Originals 10.Power
positive · AI labelView post →My wife has been watching this show called "the Blacklist" that came out in like the 2010s and it's overall a very mediocre crime drama thing, but the twist is actually incredible and knowing it actually makes the show worth watching Like. This is how it is advertised. But the reveal...
neutral · AI labelView post →Every person I have told what happens in the finale of The Blacklist, a 10 season TV show starring James Spader as a mysterious criminal badass, has not believed me
neutral · AI labelView post →I can’t limit mine to 4 Big Bang Theory Friends The Cosby Show Fresh Prince of Bel Air Martin Bernie Mac Show Psych The Blacklist Charmed Supernatural Vampire Diaries 24 Bones House Criminal Minds Grimm Teen Wolf Naruto My Hero Academia Attack on Titan Avatar The Last Airbender
positive · AI labelView post →Agreed. I also think they're much more than human trafficking and raping children. I'm thinking drug smuggling, rigged elections, assinations, money laundering, arms deal you name it on a global level. It's like an episode of "The Blacklist" if ur familiar with the show.
neutral · AI labelView post →I hate that kind of clickbait because it leads to me yelling at my screen like a madman: "He was on the show The Blacklist for 10 years doing 22 episodes a year, wtf do you mean 'What Happened To' him? Dude was working."
neutral · AI labelView post →The Blacklist is one of the best pieces of copaganda ever 🙂 10 out of 10 show.
positive · AI labelView post →Ooh! I like that. It reminds me of Red Reddington from the show The Blacklist voicing his take: _Have you ever seen the aftermath of a suicide bombing?_ _I have. June 29th, 2003. I was meeting two associates at the Marouche restaurant in Tel Aviv. As my car was pulling up, a 20-year-old Palestinian named Ghazi Safar entered the restaurant and detonated a vest wired with C-4_ _The shock wave knocked me flat, blew out my eardrums. I couldn't hear. The smoke... It was like being under water. I…
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your top 15 shows, gut instinct only: ✨Our Flag Means Death✨ Sense8 Babylon 5 TrueBlood The Witcher The Expanse DS9 The Young Ones Absolutely Fabulous The Blacklist Good Omens The Mandolorian Game of Thrones Heated Rivalry Great British Baking Show
positive · AI labelView post →"I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and heartily recommend it to readers of Robert Ludlum’s Bourne thrillers and fans of the TV series ‘the Blacklist’." THE EMPTY SPACE, A KATE POMEROY MYSTERY books2read.com/u/3GVdKO #thriller #psychologicalthriller #darkfiction #gothicthriller #writingcommunity
neutral · AI labelView post →I know I've mentioned this before, but my husband and I are freakishly similar. Love the same stuff, hate the same stuff. But one big diff is that he relentlessly watches TV series he's seen before, and I NEVER do. He's back on "The Blacklist." This is probably watch 5 or 6. LOL. Bless his heart.
neutral · AI labelView post →Apple TV+ has a twisty new crime thriller from The Blacklist creator
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been binge-watching the heck out of "The Blacklist" and it's been growing on me as a new favorite show.
positive · AI labelView post →Sony Pictures is asking in which snowy scene we wanna jump into, the options are: The Last of Us, Outlander and The Blacklist. But the right answer is so obvious, The Blood Snow cold open from The Wheel of Time series. Spread the word! #WoTSkies #SaveWoT youtube.com/post/Ugkxd0r...
neutral · AI labelView post →Getting to the Kate backstory episode of the Blacklist … god this show is good
positive · AI labelView post →Trying out this book: “Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist” by Thomas Doherty #Booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →I always thought the show THE BLACKLIST was completely fantastical until I saw this Republican regime operate. The Epstein pedophiles cover up and a dozen or so deaths would probably have occupied 3 episodes…..just sad for our nation. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
positive · AI labelView post →Reminds me of the old TV series "The Blacklist." A goat appears in an interrogation scene in Season 8, Episode 4 of "The Blacklist." The scene involves the character Marvin Gerard & Glen Brimley's unorthodox torture methods. The goat interrogation scene is titled "Elizabeth Keen (No. 1)."
neutral · AI labelView post →I spent this evening ironing some shirts and watching several episodes of The Blacklist, a series which is total trash apart from James Spader who is getting the bag and enjoying doing it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Apple TV+ unveils cryptic new crime thriller from creator of The Blacklist
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Blacklist. 👀 Is he like Hannibal? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2741602/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
neutral · AI labelView post →I can watch The Blacklist over 100 times #blacksky did anyone see the show?
positive · AI labelView post →I always thought the show THE BLACKLIST was completely fantastical until I saw this Republican regime operate. The Epstein pedophiles cover up and a dozen or so deaths would probably have occupied 3 episodes…..just sad for our nation. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
positive · AI labelView post →Watching the Blacklist. Whether it is a good show or not is beside the point. The point is to watch a weird fop try on hats.
neutral · AI labelView post →Actor and US President Ronald Reagan passed away on this day in 2004. Listen to our @rememberthispod.bsky.social episode from our 2016 series The Blacklist to learn more about Reagan's activities during the Red Scare in Hollywood and Washington: www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/201...
neutral · AI labelView post →Criterion Channel "Noir and the Blacklist" has a hidden two-film series that could be titled _Trucks are Inhuman Nightmare Metaphors for Capitalism_: "Thieves' Highway" (1949) and "Hell Drivers" (1957). Add in "They Drive by Night" (1942) and "The Wages of Fear" (1953) and you've got a series!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Blacklist Honestly he was the main reason I watched that show as long as I did As for movie: Stargate
positive · AI labelView post →i watch a lot of tv. top 10 series: Doctor Who The Expanse Person of Interest Chuck The Blacklist White Collar Community Ugly Betty Superstore New Girl
positive · AI labelView post →I’m watching The Blacklist, a show I’ve always quite liked because James Spader is lovely in it, but my god some of the scripts are red hot nonsense. Last night’s effort involved eco-terrorists doing the thing eco-terrorists in spy schlock are always trying to do, kill the human race with a pandemic
neutral · AI labelView post →Really cool to touch and feel the companion book to Locarno retrospective series RED & BLACK: HOLLYWOOD LEFT AND THE BLACKLIST edited by curator-critic Ehsan Khoshbakht. Proud to share space with so many brilliant scholars and learn about many #newtome deep cuts.
neutral · AI labelView post →On season 9 of the Walking Dead, and man oh man what a show. Its honestly one of the most well written shows besides The Sparanos, The Blacklist, and Game of Thrones. While it has some filler moments and paces that are lackluster, it's a show that was ahead of its time in how it carried itself.
positive · AI labelView post →@itsalovelylife.bsky.social This is beginning to look like a real-life version of the TV show "The Blacklist". It is an international cabal only more creepier and disgusting than the TV show.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is every single good show ever made. Lucifer, The Mentalist, Hannibal, Castle, Bones, Elementary, High Potential, House, Medium, and also The Blacklist which was terrible and should not be on this list
negative · AI labelView post →Karina Longworth did a great series on the Blacklist back in 2016. www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/bla...
neutral · AI labelView post →Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King's Aaron Pierre (John Stewart) and Kyle Chandler (Hal Jordan)-starring Green Lantern series Lanterns has reportedly tapped Ulrich Thomsen (Counterpart, The Blacklist) as Sinestro. / #Lanterns #Sinestro
neutral · AI labelView post →the Blacklist is maybe the show most perfectly suited to being stripped for short-form content. 10 seasons of the dumbest, most nonsensical TV imaginable strewn with hours of basically context-independent scenes of James Spader chewing the scenery, just waiting to be harvested
negative · AI labelView post →Man The Blacklist would be such a really great show if it wasn’t for how poorly written Elizabeth Keen is in every way. Megan Boone is great, but they made her the most insufferable character in network tv since the Big Bang Theory.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished season 3 of The Blacklist with Vixe and oh my god the balls this show has is fucking absurd
positive · AI labelView post →The Blacklist is such a funny show because DC does NOT look like that, you should have all just had it based in Chicago so you could stop doing these forced perspective shots to make the buildings look taller
negative · AI labelView post →He's pure charisma. I hated that show the Blacklist but watched an entire season of it because he ate.
negative · AI labelView post →One of the things that stuck with me from Karina Longworth’s series on the Blacklist is that a bunch of people got pegged as being Communist for being prematurely anti-fascist AFTER World War II. I think about that a lot.
neutral · AI labelView post →it was You Must Remember This’ series on the Blacklist that really made clear how McCarthyism was retribution by remaining American Nazis on everyone who had fought against fascism throughout the 1930s & ‘40s. They were so pissed to have lost.
neutral · AI labelView post →If your only exposure to the TV show The Blacklist was YouTube thumbnails, you’d assume it was a show about James Spader murdering various women
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