The Blacklist Season 4.

The Blacklist is entering a huge year, not only is it it's fourth season but it's spinoff show The Blacklist: Redemption is set to air sometime this year.

This show started off with huge ratings and a very predictable procedure storyline per episode. Blacklisted bad guy named at the start of the show, Red makes the chase with Elizabeth Keen, they chase, they catch and then the next episode is the rinse and repeat start again.

Somewhere during season 2/3 the format started to drift and major storylines started to feature throughout the series. Liz Keen died, then what? Liz Keen went to the dark side, then saw the light again (literally) and her boyfriend/whatever Tom Keen, then multiple new names throughout series was a good guy, bad guy then the new lead in the spin off.

Along with Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) Famke Janssen will be the main talent in the new spin off. Remember her from Nip/Tuck (when Ryan Murphy was a little more consistent), the Taken film series and X-Men films.

I have only watched the gripping first episode of this series with the second ready to go this NSW long weekend of sport, sport and more sport! But this series is lining up to be absolutely brilliant.

Action series are tricky you either like in the old days have a formula you stick to per episode or you go rogue and aim for almost movie like big action sequences. The second is where I believe The Blacklist is headed which is good news in my eyes.

This series has growed and unlike others in it's genre, has only gotten better with age. NBC has a winner on it's hands here and I hope Blindspot also takes a leaf out of the Blacklist and starts to drop the tattoo per episode formula and move more into series long storylines.

The Blacklist is now airing in the US on NBC.