Winter Watchlist Warmers - The Blacklist - Season Ten/Series Finale

The tenth and final season of The Blacklist has now concluded. Well actually it officially concluded the series on July 13, 2023 with the final two episodes on NBC.

However in Australia we had to wait till the entire season landed on Netflix recently.

James Spader, Diego Klattenhoff, Hisham Tawfiq, Harry Lennix returned for the season, while Anya Banerjee debuted in a new main role. Amir Arison only appeared in the first episode, while Laura Sohn as agent Park also left at the end of season nine.

It is also the second and final season without Megan Boone. 

So after 218 episodes, ten seasons, between September 23, 2013, and July 13, 2023, The Blacklist is finally over. I sat through all 218 episodes, alongside the spin-off, The Blacklist: Redemption. Sharing the same fictional universe with the original series and was entirely focused on Ryan Eggold's character, Tom Keen. Elizabeth Keen's (Megan Boone) husband .

Back to episode one, the pilot, this gathered 12.6 million viewers in the United States.

During its run, The Blacklist won a Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award and was nominated for six more, as well as received nominations for two Golden Globe Awards, two Saturn Awards and two People's Choice Awards.

SPOILERS AFTER THE TRAILER!

So how does it all end? After all those episodes? Read on to find out about the last network series 
I will be watching for some time!

Reddington and his squad deliver Dembe to the closest nursing home where Reddington's blood is transfused to Dembe after he loses a significant amount of blood. After the transfusion is done, Reddington escapes to Andalusia, Spain and recovers from blood loss at his mansion, suffering from his disease. 

Meanwhile, the investigation continues and Nixon is furious after Hudson's death. 

Herbie leaves the Task Force, deeming it a betrayal to his friend. 

Cooper and Siya head to Red's safehouse and find out that Red returned there to pick up Islero's skull. It appears that Red escaped to Spain to bring Islero's skull to its homeland, the abandoned Miura ranch.

Dembe awakens, his condition improves. The court has decided to relieve Dembe of duty after Red is captured. He gives details on Red's closest place to the ranch, the mansion, and Ressler is sent there.

However, his arrival is late; Red has set off to the ranch, without the skull or any protection weapon. When he finally reaches the ranch, weakened after an arduous walk, an angry bull gores him, and there is nothing Ressler could do. 

Ressler picks up and dusts off his brown fedora hat and places it on the deceased Reddington's body.

So James Spader's Reddington could only up one way. Dead. The net was closing in too much. A dead senator (who look a little like Ted Cruz) and the team, FBI and others all chasing him.

It was a decent season. A super easy watch. Something you could switch off to at the end of a LONG day. The Blacklist might have gone for a few too many seasons, however it did end fairly well. Even without the majority of the initial cast.

We never really knew that much about Raymond Reddington, however Spader did play an impressive, is he a good guy or a likeable bad guy?

The Blacklist streams ALL ten seasons on Netflix in Australia. Minx season two finale to come!