Raymond Reddington has been a favorite of mine for a while now. I love Red; he’s the concierge of crime as they put it. He is the main character in The Blacklist alongside Elizabeth Keen and they just aired the seventh season finale and were renewed for an eighth season.
It’s been fun watching these two as they come to know each other, grow to love one another, hate each other, uncover secrets, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
See Red, is number four on the FBI’s most-wanted list, and one day, he decides to turn himself in but his only condition is that he will only talk to the FBI’s newest profiler, Agent Keen.
This leads to them working together on a case and is the birth of the Blacklist, a list of the world’s most elite criminals that Red caters to. He offers them up to the FBI as blacklisters and uses this to get close to Agent Keen.
Away from that though, remember COVID-19, the virus that’s terrorizing us🙄, it did the same to the production of the show. So what they did is, animate parts of the season finale that weren’t shot on camera yet. It’s an interesting, exciting, and very creative way to finish the production. It’s animated in this comic-book-like style, giving off Supa Strikas vibes-if anyone remembers them. It takes some getting used to because they switch off between the animation and the live-action footage but it’s oddly captivating.
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This is another ingenious way to combat the virus and still get the work done. Goes to show that nothing could keep us down in the age of digital technology and gives filmmakers a lot of ideas to play around with.
If you do get a chance to see it, let me know what you think in the comments below. For now, you can check out the trailer below.
Author: Koome Kinoti
