The advantage to this is that it not only strengthens Megan Boone's character - giving her a sense of agency in openly telling Red she's going to find out the truth with or without his help. But it's difficult to get the audience to care about an event that may or may not happen several years into the future, so The Blacklist wisely shifts the focus to something more personal - something that might finally help make Red and Lizzie's relationship carry meaning beyond the mystery of whether or not he's her father.Īnd that's a good thing, because knowing will have more impact that the question of: is he or isn't he? The series is still playing coy, but it's also showing how Lizzie is making the choice to find out the truth. This time around, it's the threat of the Cabal and their plans to initiate World War III in 2017 – why? Who knows? 2017 seems like as good a time as any, I guess. Last season, it was the threat of Berlin looming large over everything. That's sort of the crux of 'Quon Zhang,' though, isn't it? The entire episode is dedicated to making small things seem like much larger revelations, so that the push to the finale can carry more dramatic weight. Apparently, when a show insists on setting the bar so low, it becomes exponentially easier to make minor adjustments in emphasis seem like much larger shifts in importance. It's incremental, to say the least – the reveal of the Fulcrum and it being put to use seems to have made that little MacGuffin mostly a thing of the past – but for a series that has been so obstinate about exploring the possibilities of its own storyline, seeing the focus shift from an inanimate object to a clandestine group like the Cabal is reason enough to get excited. After 42 episodes, The Blacklist has decided to move things forward. There's progress in both the series' overarching plotline and the stories of some of its main characters, and that's a welcome relief. As the season ramps up for the finale, the need to dedicate time to tracking down one of Red's leads has decidedly taken a backseat to more pressing concerns. Such as, Lizzie's mysterious past, what secrets Red is still withholding and why, and, naturally, what the Cabal is up to – or will be up to in 2017, now that the cat is more or less out of the bag on that one.
This week's 'Quon Zhang' features so little of the titular criminal that it's almost a misnomer for the episode to name an entire hour after him. At this point, it's beginning to feel like The Blacklist could drop the convention of using the names of blacklisters for its episodic titles.
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