The Kazanjian Brothers (No. 156/157)

Of Elizabeth Lizzy Keene! I'm so sick of this traitorous, self righteous flake. I used to absolutely love this show and couldn't wait for it to come on. Now because of this character, I can't wait for it to be over and done with.

Of Keen and Rostova, and of Keen constantly sh1tt1ing on Red. He's always been there for her, despite the risk to himself, unlike her mother.

Keen has become the most unsympathetic regular character in the show.

I very much hope this doesn't drag on through all of next season.

They should have hired the guys from Archer to make this episode happen

Dear Blacklist writers: I am so utterly SICK of Katarina Rostova and Liz's back and forth with this mean, manipulative, nasty woman, that I can only hope this is a ploy for future plot twists where Liz finally comes to her senses and KR finally does die. Whatever Red is - and he's certainly not a 'good guy' in the conventional sense - he's very much aware of what he is, as he's said himself any number of times. But he is the classic 'bad guy' with the one redeeming feature that makes him sympathetic to an audience: his unconditional love of Liz, whoever she may be to him. He's proven and shown this to her (and everyone on the team) any number of times, and it is so apparent that this love is genuine. The way he holds her after she's freed from prison after the fall of the Kabal; the way he reacts when she apparently 'dies'. James Spader shows it all. And while Katarina has has nothing but 'black speech' for Red, note that Red has always spoken well of, and been sympathetic to her. So, dear Blacklist writers, I can only hope that Liz's 'choosing' this malicious woman who's only ever shown that she's the only one she truly cares about (even to leaving Agnes to find a corpse in the park to pursue her own ends), is simply a device for the subsequent episodes, and that she's not actually bailing out on Red, just to find out 'the truth'. Because if that's not the case, I really don't care if Liz ends up dead at the end of series 8 - as long as Agnes goes to a loving home and not to KR!

This was an interesting, but very convoluted episode. I found it hard to follow, what with the "I don't want to take sides", "I'm on your side", "No, I'm on her side".. I really don't know up from down here.

What I DO know is that the minuscule amount of 3-D Reddington that we saw was pretty much the back of his head. Why? Did he grow nose warts? It was bad enough not seeing Spader in the Ressler Brothers episode, but we are STILL not seeing him, and he is the reason 99% of us watch this show!

The music was FANTASTIC!! Kudos to whomever selected the tunes .. it was such a fun treat! I may watch the episode again, just for the music... especially at the end.

The animation was okay, for a bit of change. But only this once. I really loved the animated ending, it was an awesome scene - up on the roof, with the night sky and the wind blowing. But.. that said.. I did not like the story arc that accompanied it, i.e., Liz's betrayal. Red has done nothing but love and protect her all of her life. He even bequeathed his entire fortune to her. This is the way she repays him? Why not just stab him in the back with a bowie knife; at least that would be more honest!

I hope the writers can turn things around to show Liz as truly being on Red's side (although that would be difficult considering she is THINKING these dark thoughts, not speaking them to someone).. because if she really does side against Red and her own dying grandfather, then I have zero interest in staying with the show. Red is The Blacklist's protagonist and raison d'être only because of Liz. If Liz is his enemy, then there is no show. I have nothing against the actress - she's been great - but if the character is the, ahem, "witch" she's been painted as in this episode, then I have no interest in her or the story from this point on!