the audience applauded

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I've been having a hard time finding good new espionage shows lately. After Chuck, Nikita, White Collar, Breaking In, and others ended I actually tried to watch The Blacklist and I didn't like it at all. This show is so good though. There is a lot of drama and conspiracy and they don't focus on romance or anything since the main character is already married to the main in Blacklist. I've only seen maybe one episode of The Blacklist and it is not needed at all to enjoy this show. I'm still screaming about how season 1 ended and I'm hoping for a season two.

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.

I always give any show 3-episodes before I make my determination if it's worth more than that. I'm eagerly anticipating next weeks' season finale, and I hope the ending leaves an opening for another run. This show doesn't have the marvel that is James Spader but the ride has been fun, and worth the time invested.

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.