The final season of “The Blacklist” has been available on Netflix for a few days now. But fans of the series with James Spader are largely disappointed by it – as already showed the reactions to the end on US TV.
Since August 12, 2023, the big “The Blacklist” finale can also be watched in Germany via Netflix in the streaming subscription. In the tenth and final season, James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington is allowed to pull the strings once again – until it comes to a real conclusion. But that leaves many fans with horror.
This was shown by the reactions of the American audience following the broadcast of the final episode on TV – one month before the German Netflix launch. There are many disappointed comments in the large “The Blacklist” fan forum on Reddit. One particularly popular one sums up the bulk of the other reactions well:
So the finale was bullshit in the truest sense of the word, according to the comment, which receives a lot of encouragement. Others are of a similar opinion. One person writes that she is “still laughing because: What the hell was that ending?”. Another comment theorizes that it’s “honestly very hard to think of a worse ending. “
Others complain that they wasted ten years on the series and someone asks how James Spader could allow it to end “in such a bullshit way.”
Okay, since this is the second time we’ve quoted a comment with the word “bullshit” in it, we have to note that this and a great many other “bull”-related puns in the fan forum are no coincidence. It’s related to what happens at the end of the episode. Attention: SPOILERS follow!
SPOILER: THIS HAPPENS AT THE END OF “THE BLACKLIST “
We don’t want to retell the whole finale, but only the real last moments of main character Raymond Reddington. In these, Red, who has escaped to Spain to live on a ranch, comes face to face with a large bull, a bull. After a period of staring at each other – the camera sometimes shows Red, sometimes the animal, sometimes both in long shot – the big bull eventually runs in slow motion towards Red, who is calmly facing his fate. A short time later, FBI agent Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff) arrives in Spain, finds the bloody, grotesquely twisted body of the fugitive crime mastermind in the grass. Reddington is undoubtedly dead, run down by a bull.
Fans aren’t necessarily disappointed that an animal now kills Raymond Reddington, but how arbitrary this conclusion seems, and especially how little it cares about answers. “The Blacklist” is one of those series that kept building mysteries over the years, but only resolved a few of them. And even the finale makes no effort to change this at first glance. Instead, all the answers to the questions surrounding his true identity die with Red.
