The Blacklist’s Frustrating Fall: Keen’s a Keeper, but Red Regresses
RECALIBRATING RED
After killing off the dead wood and overhauling most characters, especially Keen and her wig, the show forgot its raison d’être: James Spader’s wonderful Red.
The solution seemed so easy. When I wrote about The Blacklistlast spring, I noted that James Spader was single-handedly keeping the show together with his virtuoso turn as “concierge of crime” Raymond “Red” Reddington.
