Is anyone else watching this? I think James Spader is doing an amazing job. The stewmaker was pretty creepy I like the flavor of the week villain with ongoing mystery of the Husband and Why Red picked her? Sort of reminds me of the X-files which I loved.
My wife and I have been watching it from the beginning. We love it! (Although I must admit the show pushes the boundaries of reality into WTFland a wee bit for me sometimes). James Spader has always been a terrific actor to me even since his early work in the 80s.
I never would have thought of this, but my wife "guessed" within the first five minutes...
She believes he IS her father. Makes perfect sense to me!
-He knows personal things about her that are not on record
-During the second episode when they are posing on their "dinner date" (because he is "too old" for her to be going out together) he casually says she can be "his daughter"
-When she asks him "why me?" he pauses unable to answer at first, and then tells her "it has to do with your father"
-After he violently kills the Stewmaker and she asks him how he could do such a monstrous thing (how can he live with himself?)
he answers "by saving your life" (something every father would do for their child)
My wife and I have been watching it from the beginning. We love it! (Although I must admit the show pushes the boundaries of reality into WTFland a wee bit for me sometimes). James Spader has always been a terrific actor to me even since his early work in the 80s.
I never would have thought of this, but my wife "guessed" within the first five minutes...
She believes he IS her father. Makes perfect sense to me!
-He knows personal things about her that are not on record
-During the second episode when they are posing on their "dinner date" (because he is "too old" for her to be going out together) he casually says she can be "his daughter"
-When she asks him "why me?" he pauses unable to answer at first, and then tells her "it has to do with your father"
-After he violently kills the Stewmaker and she asks him how he could do such a monstrous thing (how can he live with himself?)
he answers "by saving your life" (something every father would do for their child)
Spot on. I was discussing The Blacklist recently with a friend who had heard of it but hasn't seen any episodes, and I described the show as a modified version of Silence of the Lambs; the differences being that the Hannibal Lecter character (Raymond "Red" Reddington) is working with the F.B.I. and isn't a cannibal (that we know of), and that the Clarice Starling character (Elizabeth Keen) is more intelligent and not nearly as "green".
I almost always end up catching shows the day after they air, so (1) I couldn't believe no one was talking about the last two-three minutes of what had to be one of the coolest/deepest montages in TV history at the end of The Cypress Agency and (2) how is there not a Blacklist thread?
I really, really, want to post a couple of screen caps, but I also don't want to blow it for anyone that hasn't seen it.
