Was Blacklist filmed in Cottonwood Falls KS

If being an international crime lord with a heart of gold is Raymond Reddington's first life on The Blacklist, and being a top-secret informant for a top-secret FBI task force is his second life, then being a small-town Lothario who sucks at bridge is his third life. As it turns out, three simultaneously lived lives is just one too many. Because wherever Raymond Reddington goes, there he still is including when that place is the tiny hometown of a woman he fell in love with in Central Park, who he's since been happily using to escape the reality of lives 1 and 2.

Season 8 has seen a lot of change for Reddington. He made a friend in Harold Cooper, lost a confidante in Elizabeth Keen, and apparently fell in love with Anne sweet, beautiful, lovely, and now completely endangered Anne. Because no matter how much he changes or grows, Red cannot outrun his past. "It may not be who you want to be," Dembe tells Reddington, speaking about his life that's filled with crazy-eyed Townsend, invisible Liz, and duties to the FBI instead of Anne. "But it's always who you are."

Dembe is right we know it, and Reddington knows it too. So I especially appreciated the parallel, 165 episodes into The Blacklist's run, of watching Red once again walk into a law enforcement agency, put his hands above his head, declare himself a wanted fugitive, and turn himself over to the authorities in order to protect a woman he loves. Some things never change

And so the question must be raised, especially given the parallel of those two very women coming face to face by episode's end: Are Reddington's intentions to protect Anne just as doomed by secrets as his intentions to protect Liz have been? And if so, how can Reddington protect both when one stands as a direct threat to the other?

This episode opens somewhere between a sitcom and a rom-com. Reddington's eyes are glazed over with hearts as his accountant rambles on about Bitcoin, and later, as Dembe rambles on about the grave danger Townsend poses to Red, and how Red was the one who taught him that the only way to stay ahead of your enemies was to never create patterns for them to notice

Yada, yada, yada, Reddington only wants to get to Anne, who he has apparently visited in Cottonwood Falls, Kan., five times since we last saw him regretfully stand her up for what should have been their final date in New York City. But now here he is, letting himself into Anne's home with the key she gave him for that very purpose, halfway-charming and halfway-annoying her friends with how bad he is at bridge. Her very best friend is Lois, a police officer who's weary of how little Anne knows about her new boyfriend, Ray.