S10.E15: The Hat Trick

[paigow]

Airdate: Jun 1 / 23 8:00 PM 

In an effort to prove their worth to Congressman Hudson, Red provides the task force with three criminal cases that are deeper than they appear; Ressler helps a friend make amends.

 

[paigow]

Red is so concerned about extinction and Agnes living in a world with less bio-diversity... what a redemption journey!!!

[milkyaqua]

So basically all these cases to lead to Blair Foster?  Why does Red have to be so roundabout?

[edhopper]

So NBC is just throwing these episodes out there? I would have missed them if my DVR wasn't set.

As to this episode, it was an interesting mystery as to how they were all connected, but the tam sitting around waiting to find something to do was embarrassing. The Congressman is probably right about them.

[ottoDbusdriver]

These 3 cases were deeper more boring than they appeared -- and they appeared pretty boring.

Ressler's NA buddy finally shows up again.  Has he been sitting in his car for all these episodes ? Waiting for a pep talk from Ressler.

What's going to happen next episode -- 42 minutes of Reddington picking up pennies from the street, enough to amount up to $52.5 million ?

Still no sign or mention of the dogs, Robert Vesco's cat, or Sierra the Cat.

[paigow]

2 hours ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

What's going to happen next episode -- 42 minutes of Reddington picking up pennies from the street,...

Causing chain reaction car crashes that the FBI Allstate account has to cover.. 

[Brian Cronin]

Who is Congressman Foster? "He ruined my life." 

Spends, what, a half hour more with Red, "Oh, when I said 'ruined my life,' I meant the exact opposite, I guess I really should have mentioned that when we first started talking. My bad." 

[ottoDbusdriver]

5 hours ago, Brian Cronin said:

Who is Congressman Foster? "He ruined my life." 

Spends, what, a half hour more with Red, "Oh, when I said 'ruined my life,' I meant the exact opposite, I guess I really should have mentioned that when we first started talking. My bad." 

That was really bad.  It's just so obvious that these last few episodes are being padded with filler because the producers were contractually committed for 22 episodes -- so they had to put something on the screen.

[paigow]

On 6/3/2023 at 4:10 AM, Brian Cronin said:

Who is Congressman Foster? "He ruined my life." 

Spends, what, a half hour more with Red, "Oh, when I said 'ruined my life,' I meant the exact opposite, I guess I really should have mentioned that when we first started talking. My bad." 

Red ruined her life because she missed the CSI quiz...

[paigow]

On 6/3/2023 at 10:01 AM, ottoDbusdriver said:

the producers were contractually committed for 22 episodes -- so they had to put something on the screen.

Luckily, Red is not hallucinating / conversing with Dead!Liz or having weekly flashback montages... maybe that will be the finale...

[milkyaqua]

On 6/3/2023 at 7:01 AM, ottoDbusdriver said:

That was really bad.  It's just so obvious that these last few episodes are being padded with filler because the producers were contractually committed for 22 episodes -- so they had to put something on the screen.

Which makes no sense.  Why didn't the TPTB just negotiate with the network for a half season?  Instead you have a chunk of the season dumped in the summer season which is usually dead for network tv unless you count all the game shows and talent shows and it's not because the show doesn't have enough for syndication purposes...

They'd have been better off doing fewer eps and making a tighter season to wrap up without all this filler and burn off which can't be getting NBC any decent ratings and is expecting a lot of the remaining audience.

[tvfanatic13]

If this show ends in any way other than Mr. Kaplan taking down Red and running his empire I will be pissed!!!!