The Blacklist

Season 2

Main Characters

• Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader) is a criminal mastermind, making it to #4 on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, who suddenly turns himself in after 20 years of evading the FBI.

• Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone), a Special Agent of the FBI, who was specifically requested by Reddington during the process of cooperating with Assistant Director Harold Cooper.

• Donald Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff), a Special Agent of the FBI, he was the lead agent on Raymond Reddington case before Elizabeth Keen.

• Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold), Elizabeth Keen's husband; a spy who was hired to keep an eye on Elizabeth keen.

• Samar Navabi (Mozhan Marnò) is a Mossad operative who has had past interactions with Raymond Reddington. With the death of Meera Malik, she is assigned by Deputy Director Cooper to the task force as an investigative agent and Mossad liaison.

• Aram Mojtabai (Amir Arison), worked for the NSA for 14 years before being hand-selected by Harold Cooper for his diverse skill set. He is comfortable with counter-surveillance as he is with writing code or cracking databases.

• Harold Cooper (Harry Lennix), is the Assistant Director for Counter-terrorism at the FBI.

Review

In Season 1 finale we see that Berlin is after Reddington and season 2 starts off with the continuation of that but the whole season doesn't not revolve around Berlin. That's just for a small time. We see that there is a new highlight in this season other than Berlin and there are the usual events which is Reddington providing information on the blacklist and the FBI trying to solve the cases. But we also see more on Agent Keen's personal life and her relationship with Reddington and how everything is affected after the events that occurred in Season 1. Although it seems pretty obvious that Reddington is Agent Keen's father, so far they haven't showed that in the series which means there are chances he may not be.

The story is good and is consistently interesting. We've a new Agent in their Special Task Force, Agent Navabi who is a replacement for Meera Malik. This character is more convincing in her role than the character Meera Malik was. So this is a good addition to the series. Compared to season 1, this season had less action sequences. But all the action sequences throughout the series are good. James Spader as Reddington is very good and the character is awesome but Megan Boone as Elizabeth Keen needs to be more expressive.

Although Raymond Reddington is the most interesting character, after some time, his dialogues and plans seem a cliche. It feels like he's all bark cause his actions aren't as convincing as his threatening. That said, he does live up to his words and is a man of his word. The chain of events that happen in this season has taken the story into a different direction now. The series is good and I would definitely suggest this to everyone.

Rating - 4/5