The Blacklist

By Reggie's Take on September 25, 2014

The Blacklist is a television crime drama airing on NBC. Check out the new posters recently released in the style of some of your favorite magazines with actor James Spader as his title character from the show, Raymond “Red” Reddington.

The Blacklist / NBC Universal Television

James Spader is Raymond “Red” Reddington, a former government agent and one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, surrenders at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims the FBI and he have similar interests in getting rid of dangerous criminals and terrorists.

He makes an offer that the FBI cannot refuse and insists on one condition, that he will co-operate only with Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler. Keen questions Reddington’s sudden interest in her, but Reddington will only reveal that she is very special. After the FBI uses Reddington’s information to locate a terrorist, Reddington reveals that this terrorist is only the first of many criminals that he will help them neutralize.

Over the course of his own criminal career, he has made a “blacklist” of global criminals whom he believes are dangerous to society, most of whom are unknown to the FBI.