SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “The Skinner,” the Season 9 premiere of “The Blacklist.” “The Blacklist” has officially moved on from Liz Keen’s death. The NBC drama returned for its ninth season on Oct. 21 with the first episode since the exit of Megan Boone, who starred as the former FBI profiler since the pilot. While Boone left to work on other projects, Liz was shot and killed just as she was about to kill the terminally ill Raymond Reddington (James Spader) in order to take over his criminal empire and valuable blacklist. Of course, that happened just before Liz could learn Red’s real identity once and for all, but the show gave viewers enough information to guess that Red might actually be the adopted identity of Liz’s mother, Katarina. The premiere picked up two years after Liz’s death, with Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq), now an undercover FBI agent, getting badly injured in an explosion and ending up in the hospital while his partner was killed. His assailants, who were trying to steal important microchips, were sporting mysterious tattoos, which led a retired Cooper (Harry Lennix) to get his team back together to figure out which dangerous person or organization was responsible. He pulled Aram (Amir Arison) out of an investor meeting for his new cyber security business and took Alina (Laura Sohn) away from a class she was teaching, but a bearded Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff) wasn’t interested in abandoning the car he was working on to get back in on the action, especially if Red was involved. Ressler still blamed Red for Liz’s death, and he wasn’t the only one. Red, of course, was the only person who could help identify this villainous tattoo, so Cooper had to track the man down in Havana. That meant Cooper had to be drugged in a bar, then taken to some strange place where Red was being guarded and cared for by a shaman. Once Cooper was suitably rubbed down with an egg (don’t ask), he got to have a chat with his old friend and learned quite a bit about a man known as the Skinner, who might be a 700 year-old pirate but is also the leader of a group of criminals who burn people alive, and his identity changes over time in a line of succession. He’s “more myth than man,” Red said, but they had to find the man who personifies the myth. While Red wasn’t exactly interested in joining Cooper’s little meetings with his recreated team, he was interested in the fact that Cooper is taking care of Liz’s daughter, Agnes, though Cooper didn’t think it was the best idea for Red to see her. Red eventually agreed to help the team by tracking down the Skinner’s predecessor, Vincent, who Red kidnapped with some acting work from Cooper, Aram and Alina. Red convinced Vincent that it was in both of their best interests for him to reveal the Skinner’s current identity, and got the name of a guy who just checked into a hotel in New York. Cooper and Alina got on a plane, joined by a surprise Ressler while Aram chased down his investor. Things went badly for Aram when he had to use the investor’s computer to hack into a database to identify a man being tracked by the Skinner, but he was able to find out that the Skinner was after the chief tech officer for the only company that makes the world’s most advanced microchips. Red then took off, taking all his resources with him, after Cooper still refused to let him back into Agnes’ life. The rest of the team, armed with only a unicorn printer courtesy of Agnes, visited Dembe to brief him on the somewhat dire situation. They got the name of the man who was kidnapped, but they didn’t have a whole lot more than that. Ressler then went after Red to tell him that he still had to care about the blacklist in honor of Liz, and the next name on the list is a former Skinner. Looks like Red and Ressler are going to be working together, and a new era for “The Blacklist” has begun, even if we still have no official confirmation on the identity of Raymond Reddington. “The Blacklist” airs Thursday at 8 p.m. on NBC.
 Hey, “The Blacklist” fans. Welcome to the brand new season 9! We know it’s been a long wait, but the wait is finally over because the new, premiere episode 1 will be airing tonight, October 21, 2021! In light of that great news, we do have some new spoiler scoops for the new episode 1. We were able to get our hands on a couple of new, official teaser scoops for the new episode 1 from NBC’s official episode 1 press release. So, we’re going to dive into those right now. Let’s do it. Advertisement For starters, NBC’s press release let us know that the new episode 1 of The Blacklist’s new season 9 is officially titled, “THE SKINNER.” It sounds like episode 1 will feature some very interesting, intense, dramatic, action-filled, scandalous, suspenseful and possible emotional scenes as Red and the FBI Task Force have disbanded. one of the Task Force members gets injured and more. We’ll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the Red and Task Force situation. It turns out that this first season 9 episode will kick off with the timeline being set at two years after Elizabeth Keen’s death. Red’s whereabouts will be unknown, and he will be separated from the FBI Task Force who is also disbanded. NBC’s official description for this Red and FBI Task Force situation reads like this,”In the two years following the death of Elizabeth Keen, Raymond Reddington and the members of the FBI Task Force have disbanded with Reddington’s whereabouts unknown.” The second and last teaser description for this new episode 1 lets us know that things will get extremely intense and dramatic at some point because one of the Task Force members will end up getting injured in the line of duty. This tragic event will end up causing the Task Force to reunite in an effort to take down a conspiracy that could be a major threat to global security. Advertisement NBC’s description for this Task Force reunion reads like this, “When one of their own is injured in the line of duty, however, the Task Force is drawn back together to bring down a conspiracy that could shatter global security.” NBC’s press release confirmed that the new, premiere episode 1 of The Blacklist’s new season 9 is indeed scheduled to air tonight, October 21, 2021 at approximately 7 pm central standard time. Alright guys. That’s all we’ve got for this latest “The Blacklist” TV show report, but definitely stay tuned for more. Be sure to like or follow us on our The Blacklist Facebook page for more exclusive The Blacklist news and updates by Clicking Here. Be sure to follow us through our The Blacklist RSS Feed for more exclusive The Blacklist news and updates by Clicking Here. Advertisement Be sure to follow us on Twitter by Clicking Here. Be sure to follow us on Instagram by Clicking Here. Advertisement Get your favorite TV Show and Movie stuff by Clicking Here. Advertisement
The newest teaser trailer for The Blacklist‘s ninth season doesn’t even crack 60 seconds, but we learn a lot about how the task force is coping in the wake of Liz Keen’s death.
8 Shows We Suspect Are (Very Quietly) Entering Their Final Seasons As TVLine confirmed last month — thus revealing the subject of our latest Blind Item — the NBC drama will pick up after a two-year time jump, at which point Red is in the wind, and the task force has disbanded. But in the promo embedded below, Agent Ressler (now rocking a beard!) reminds an anonymous someone that “whether [Liz] died in vain is up to you.” Agent Park and Harold Cooper also show up in the teaser, but none of the task force members ever appear together in the same frame. As for Red, who’s also looking a little different, he warns, “This journey isn’t over yet.” “Finding themselves each at a crossroads, a common purpose compels them to renew their original mission: to take down dangerous, vicious and eccentric Blacklisters,” per the Season 9 synopsis. “In the process, they begin to uncover lethal adversaries, unimaginable conspiracies and surprising betrayals that will threaten alliances and spur vengeance for the past, led by the most devious criminal of them all – Raymond Reddington.” Liz perished via a gunshot wound in the back during the Season 8 finale, which coincided with star Megan Boone’s exit from the series. One day after the finale aired, series creator Jon Bokenkamp revealed he was also departing after eight seasons. The Blacklist‘s ninth season begins Thursday, Oct. 21 at 8/7c. Watch the teaser trailer below, then drop a comment with your reactions! |
