The Blacklist: Redemption

Spin offs sometimes work and crossover TV is the new black but does The Blacklist: Redemption have what it takes to get a second season? At this stage the short and easy answer is NO. But politically NBC may roll over as The Blacklist is easily one of their biggest and most successful series at present.

Like FOX did with Star and gave it the benefit of doubt and a second series I feel NBC will do the same here. Star is outstanding and diverse but it is not the ratings killer that Empire was but with the same creator it's political to keep Lee Daniels on side no doubt. Like Ryan Murphy at FOX/FX it's no wonder Scream Queens got a second season (maybe even a third) when his other projects like American Crime Story and American Horror Story and ratings and critical hits.

Famke Janssen has starred in some of my favourite shows over the years, Nip/Tuck and How to Get Away with Murder plus a string of films but her character Scottie is no Red and that is what the show lacks. Ryan Eggold is handsome enough as Tom Keen (also Scottie's son, but she doesn't really know that fact yet) and after his is he a good guy, is he a bad guy routine on The Blacklist it's nice to see him breakthrough and be able to expand himself further in this short eight episode mid season filler.

With The Blacklist on break until this little show wraps up it's going to be interesting to see with DVR viewings if this show will rise up above 10 million viewers per episode again. The show has currently been sold to Netflix for apparently two million per episode!

Let's see where this spin off will take us, it's a short eight episode run and with two episodes airing already we are 25% through the series already.

Look our for reviews on FUED (Ryan Murphy's next series) and AMERICAN CRIME, the third in the series and again a nice short eight episode run.