The latest episode of The Blacklist, The Kenyon Family, aired last night and as much as I want to say, ‘I totally called it’, I suppose I should wait another episode or two first. If you aren’t into spoilers then know I’m about to spoil the episode here. You’ve been warned.
I wanted to have this up Friday morning but I had to go to bed early so I could get up at the butt-crack of dawn and drive across the state for a doctor’s appointment. It’s now Friday night and I think I’m mostly recovered from having to leave the confines of my warm comfy bed so freakishly early. I am NOT a morning person.
Cults. Seeing them everywhere on TV here lately but, this one, the Kenyon family group, hands down is the creepiest one yet. Daddy Kenyon appeared to be giving a sermon praising incestual relationships as a segue into marrying a young girl when tear gas (?) is thrown through the windows and the doors locked with a weird-looking sickle-like knife.
Creepy just doesn’t do that scene service.
We still don’t know what terminal illness Cooper has, just that he doesn’t qualify for a drug trial without the intervention of his good friend, soon-to-be Attorney General Tom. Soon-to-be AG Tom opens the door and get Cooper in on the trial as nothing is too much for old friends. What does Cooper have? ALS? If so, let’s hope it’s not the same trial that Lucius Lyon from Empire was in!
Red has Liz meet him at the DMV to talk about Kenyon as he waits to talk to Glen, the angry little guy who excels at finding needles in haystacks. Glen flips it on Red and talks his way onto Red’s private jet for a vacation to Russia to help look for the safe Fitch told Red to find. This little guy is devious, evil and has Red caught between the cross-hairs. How often can you imagine Red speechless? Gold, people, that scene was gold!
Male children at the Kenyon compound are unwanted as there is no feasible way for all of them to have three wives, a founding principle of the Kenyon family cult. Instead they are abandoned in the woods to die, only, Daddy Kenyon’s own son, abandoned himself, takes these boys in and trains them to join his militia. The story of the cult and it’s spin-off group, The Watchers, wasn’t what I expect from The Blacklist. It wasn’t … well told, seeming to be filler to give us something to watch other than Red going after the safe. So many questions that weren’t even touched upon, like, why did this guy start the Kenyon family cult? How did he come to know all the terrorists who were renting storage space on his property? Were the missing kids at The Watchers compound? How did the little girl Liz and crew found hiding in a locker know about The Watchers?
Personally, I’d have much preferred the episode to be filled with Red and Glen’s escapes than a partial story just for the sake of having another blacklister to find. That said, what was in the silver case in the trunk of the old Presidential motorcade car? And how did they get that car down there??
Anyway.
Two things stood out and had me all hot and bothered. One being the safe’s contents. It was an untraceable phone number. I didn’t recognize the voice on the other end as Red asked who they were but I sure enough recognized Tom as he cut his hair and shaved his beard. Did I call it or what? (not that it was hard, but, back pats where back pats are due here) Tom’s coming back!! Will Liz turn to him for help with the Fulcrum/recording device? Will he show up, shake his money-maker in Red’s face and dare him to his next move? Will we finally learn the extent of who all Tom was working for and when/why?
Interesting story incoming no doubt!
Since they’ve already spoiled the big secret about next week’s blacklister I fear it may just be another filler story. I hope not but, in the least, I’m assuming we’ll get to see Tom. What’d ya think of the show? Excited for Tom?