The Blacklist Season 5

[JayBee74]

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Preview on my dvr says it is the Fall Finale this week. Wonder how long it is off for?

Last three years:

Fall Finale/Winter Premiere: November 10th, February 1st, November 19th, January 7th, November 10th, January 5th.

EDIT: TV Guide is reporting that the return will be in April going against historical indicators. They also report that......

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Producers indicate that the finale ends with a cliffhanger that will leave fans' jaws on the floor. TV Guide

[~LiverpoolRed~]

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April? Holy cow!

[JayBee74]

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Well, we got shocking alright and the outcome is clearly final.

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EDIT: The second time just outside of a year that I bit on the first report of The Blacklist's winter premiere date which proved to be wrong. Despite what TV Guide reported the second half of the season begins Wednesday, January 3rd as told by NBC's voice-over announcer at the conclusion of the fall finale.

[Blzer]

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Holy ****!

[JayBee74]

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Who is the main bad guy? I've seen him before-reminds me of a 1970's Ed Asner.

[Blzer]

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Kind of a morbidly hilarious answer to an interview question below in blue (only click if you've seen the most recent episode):

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Given certain fake deaths in the past, was it important to physically show Tom in the morgue?

Bokenkamp:

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It was really important, that’s why it’s the last shot of the episode. Not to say that he’s not coming back because that would be great in a flashback if we told those stories — but we should be clear that, like Mr. Kaplan (Susan Blommaert), he is dead. There’s no trick there. We wanted to play fair with the audience like we did with Mr. Kaplan and a number of other people on the show who have died. We just wanted to be super clear that there was no trickery here, there was no bigger agenda.

Eggold:

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I tried one take with a wink in the morgue but the guys cut it.

[JayBee74]

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Did anyone think that they were going to

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kill both of them off

?

I thought the time

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jump

was a really good move.

[Blzer]

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Did anyone think that they were going to

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kill both of them off

?

I thought the time

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jump

was a really good move.

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Yes.

Well, rather... I thought when they faded to black at the end of The Sound of Silence (which I'll never be able to hear again without thinking of that scene, by the way) that it would be the end of the episode, and we would be cliffhanging until the fall, presuming they had both died.

What they did really works though, because a time jump gives us a lot of: "What happened in between?" I also wonder if there is any chance that Tom actually did survive in the hospital, and within the ten months he was later killed, something which we could be told about or witness for ourselves in flashback form.

Also makes me curious if they wanted a time jump to grow up Agnes a little bit, for whatever reason that may hold (maybe she'd be able to say a few words).

[Sportsforever]

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Finally got caught up...what a finale. I have to ask, as I may have missed it, but did we ever learn who was in the suitcase?

[Blzer]

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Finally got caught up...what a finale. I have to ask, as I may have missed it, but did we ever learn who was in the suitcase?

Nope, but I only have two guesses (probably the same two as everyone else has). Anything else would just come too much out of left field, really.

[roadman]

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I just caught the finale as well.

I thought it was the best show of the season by far and perhaps for the whole show. Sounds of Silence with Disturbed.

Ryan Eggold claims he is finished with the show and starring in a Spike Lee movie next. The producers have said there will be more stories to be told now and the real story has always been about Liz and Red, not Tom and Liz. The producers said Spader wanted to kill off Tom because he has been a pain in my rear, but they said that would't have gone down well with Liz as her daughter.

However, this is the Blacklist, anything is possible, so, maybe Tom isn't really dead, yet.lol

[Blzer]

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The producers said Spader wanted to kill off Tom because he has been a pain in my rear

You mean Tom has been a pain for Red, or Eggold has been a pain for Spader?

[JayBee74]

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The producers said Spader wanted to kill off Tom because he has been a pain in my rear, but they said that would't have gone down well with Liz as her daughter.

As you know that was Spader's desire throughout Tom's history, not this episode in particular.

However, this is the Blacklist, anything is possible, so, maybe Tom isn't really dead, yet.lol

There are so many "get out of death" free cards you can play and killing off Tom was a simple way of refocusing Red/Liz. I think NBC expected Ryan Egghold to be a big star for them but the timing of his spinoff amid The Blacklist's declining ratings before, during and after production of "Redemption" doomed it. After that, his days were really numbered.

[roadman]

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You mean Tom has been a pain for Red, or Eggold has been a pain for Spader?

Tom has been a pain in Red's rear.

Yeah, Jaybee, I'm sure the actor Spader meant that the character Tom has been a pain in his rear the whole series.

Personally, I prefer Eggold's acting vs Boone's acting. Eggold justs seems more versatile.

[JayBee74]

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Personally, I prefer Eggold's acting vs Boone's acting. Eggold justs seems more versatile.

I love Boone in this role, but Eggold definitely has talent. He's already written, directed, and produced a movie with "a level" of star talent (Justin Long and Cobey Smulders) in it, so he's not lacking on ambition either. I'm sure he'll have plenty of jobs in the near future.