With its excellent premise of a supervillain level criminal joining the FBI forces, “the blacklist” ran a large part of his criminal theater competition with regard to creativity. The show always seemed to have a touch of massive conspiracy or a fun gadget like season 7 Live / animation hybrid episode in his sleeve. Even if your mileage can vary on the question of whether “the blacklist” could maintain its speed after Liz Keen’s (Megan Boone) The death of season 8 stolen her the tension of the crucia between her and Raymond “Reddington (James Spader), the program finally ran on Spader Fuel, allowing him to keep at least part of his momentum during both remaining seasons.
In fact, if fans have a bone to choose with “The Blacklist”, it is that the show was Also mysterious towards the end. After a decade of dropping the index after a suspicion of the real name of Red (and the cancellation of several of them as new indices have emerged), the series ended without conclusive confirmation on the true identity of the slippery brain. But is there a way to dig the available information and suppose the truth behind the character? Let’s take a look at the board of directors of evidence.
Reddington was an impostor from the start
The most important thing about the identity of Raymond Reddington is as follows: it is certainly not who people think it is. It is the only thing about its history on which the show was relatively initial, even if it finally neglected to give concrete evidence of its true identity. The question of Red’s identity is not even really a question at the beginning, but the spectacle establishes entirely that something Fishy takes place in “The Blacklist” season 5 Episode 22, entitled “Sutton Ross”.
In the final of season 5, viewers discover that the literal bag of OS that Red has protected in fact contains bodily remains … The real Raymond Reddington. A pivotal moment in the series, this revelation destroyed everything that viewers thought of knowing about the character of James Spader. Sometimes these types of shock revelations are last minute concoctions to inject a certain tension in a spectacle that was a little long in the tooth. But like the executive creator and producer of the program Jon Bokenkamp said it Weekly entertainment At the time, Red’s imposing nature was part of a long match that the creators (and Spader, who was the only actor who knew it) had always played:
“Yeah, this is something we talked about when the program is created. It is part of the underlying mythology that we have slowly untangled. I think there are a number of episodes that we Can come back in a way and in a way card and graphics how we arrived here.
Red may be Katarina Rostova
A particular theory on the true identity of Redddington has bitten the interest of the Fandom more than others. According to this, Red was never the father of Liz Keen (Megan Boone), as was implicit – but in fact her mother, Katarina Rostova (Lotte Verbeek). Katarina is presented in flashback scenes of the show as a double agent figure who has familiar with the real Raymond Reddington (Colin Bates) as part of a mission to get closer to him, and both Finally had a daughter before things were bad and Rostova died. However, it turns out that Rostova is still very lively and has a bone to pick with red. However However, This version of Rostova is actually a different agent called Tatiana Petrova (Laila Robins), who pretended to be the former Flame of Red under the commands of Dominic Wilkinson (Brian Dennehy).
Instead of returning Rostova’s status quo, Petrova’s revelation of the program ends up adding a third “however” in the mix. While Red’s true identity is never entirely resolved in the program, fans of “The Blacklist” have settled on the theory that the Redddington that we see on the contemporary chronology of the program is in fact Rostova, Who took the identity after Red’s original death and uses it to manage compatible Criminal-Slash Empire Affairs while ensuring Liz. The Fandom is prey both with the supporters and dropouts of this particular theory, and there remains a subject of popular discussion while viewers choose the various apparent clues and confirmations which can potentially be used to support the theory of ” Redarina “.
The show teased that he was Ilya Koslov until the real ILYA appears
The Reddest Redddington Herring in the story of “The Blacklist” is undoubtedly Ilya Koslov. If you have stopped watching the series at a certain point, you might have left the confidence that the James Spader version of Red has always been Koslov. “The Blacklist” season 6 episode 19, “Rassvet”, reveals that Koslov (Gabriel Mann) and Katarina Rostova were very close, and seems to confirm that they developed a plot where Koslov assumed the identity of Reddington Red to protect Katarina and Masha (alias Liz Keen).
The show deals that Koslov reveals as a cannon effectively until season 7 of episode 10, entitled “Katarina Rostova”, unexpectedly reveals the real Koslov (Brett Cullen) in the contemporary chronology of the series. It is a real touch of traction that fundamentally changes the game, both for the spectator and for Liz. Here’s how Jon Bokenkamp described this whapper of a mid-season final turn to The envelope::
“This reveals that hea Koslov is lying in Katarina’s apartment was a large part of Liz Tour against the Red. She was led to believe by [Brian Dennehy’s Dominic Wilkinson]And in a way by red, that red is Ilya Koslov. And Red has never corrected it on this subject.
He could have been the real Raymond Reddington, after all
As mentioned earlier, “The Blacklist” changes the gears after Megan Boone left the show at the end of season 8, and finally chooses to leave the red question in the air. For this reason, there is always the possibility that James Spader had really played Real Red from the start, and all the Rostova and Koslov clues were only part of the well -established trend of the character to hatch the plots massively complicated for Control almost everything around him.
Admittedly, it seems quite eccentric because we know that Young Liz has shot down the original dead of Reddington. Again, it would not be the first time that red has been apparently shot, only to survive and continue to hatch its plots – just see “The Blacklist” season 2 episode 18, “Vanessa Cruz”, for another example of that. Apparently being shot by Liz, the person he tries to influence throughout the first eight seasons of the show, is also exactly the kind of death that the extraordinary Red chessmaster could simulate for his own reasons.
Of course, this is only a wild theory … But there again, the same goes for all the other indices on the identity of Red. While I am personally more partial to the theory of Katarina Rostova, the idea that a character could simply assume that the identity of the original red seems extremely complicated when you compare it to the possibility that the real red comes from Add another layer to its mystery by surviving LIZ’s gunshots – either by accident or by design. With all the theories of the true identity of Redddington, who knows? Maybe the real twist has always been that there is no twist.
Why has the black list never revealed the true identity of Raymond Reddington
The most likely reason “the black list” has chosen to keep the identity of Red behind the Wraps is that the plot of the plot which would have benefited from the revelation ended prematurely. When Megan Boone left the show, the need to solve the mystery is actually dead with Liz Keen. As such, a purist might think that the real Climax series is “The Blacklist” season 8 Episode 21, entitled “Nachalo”. This episode reveals the original death of Red, the Katarina / Tatjana fraud, the original identity of Liz as the daughter of Red and Katarina, Masha Rostova, of the new Lore Ilya Rostov, and almost The true current identity of red, only so that Liz gets shot before hearing the truth. The next episode, the final season “Konets”, is more a farewell episode for Liz and its dynamics with Red.
The show continued without Boone before season 10, but with Liz dead, there was no longer a worthy character for Red to lock the horns of identity, and therefore no real incentive to solve the mystery in a way conclusive. In an interview Associated Pressstar James Spader (who had a lot of creative contribution on his character) More or less confirmed it by saying that the program ended the exact way in which its manufacturers have chosen:
“I was very, very happy that we could end it exactly as we wanted to end it. It was deliberate and we were not caught by surprise in terms of the end of the end. The end has a conviction And we are committed to it. […] “I really felt that it was complete and I loved the way it really finished a circle, in a way. It was not only an uninterrupted line of point A at point Z, but c ‘was a kind of circle. “
