Deceit And Deception

Secrets are revealed and family values are pushed to their breaking points in chaotic season 7 of The Blacklist.

- Emile Butler- O’brien

The Blacklist

Season 7 Wednesdays (from 23 December) M-Net (*101) 21:30

The longer that twisty action series The Blacklist (2013-now) has gone on, the deeper and more complex the lies being told by master criminal Redd Reddington (James Spader, Robert from 2011-2012 in comedy show The Office US, 2005-2013). The good news is that know-it-all Redd will be answering some of your questions in the first two episodes of season 7 – he’s still being held hostage by ex-KGB agent Katarina Rostova (Laila Robins, FBI Agent Deakins in drama series Deception, 2018), who’s the mother of Redd’s profiler bestie Liz Keen (Megan Boone, Lauren Stanton in single-season drama series Law & Order: LA, 2010-2011) and he’s in a bad way, tied up and drugged. “The audience is sort of in Redd’s shoes, with a whole bag of questions about what’s next, what Katarina’s agenda is, how he’s going to get out of this mess,” reveals executive producer Jon Bokenkamp (director of 2000 mystery thriller movie Bad Seed). And it seems the lies are continuing…