The Blacklist: Season 3 [DVD]

As Season 3 gets underway the manhunt for ex-FBI Agent Keen is underway. It's much harder for Keen because she shot the Attorney General, but his last words to her and Harold Cooper were that there was nothing they could do about it. Reddington of course has other ideas and that is to take the fight to the Cabal and in he first half of the season that is just what he & Liz do.A truce of sorts is reached with the capture and exposing of the Director of the Cabal and Clandestine Services at the CIA. Liz is cleared of all charges except that shooting of AG. She gets 3 years probation but loses her job at the FBI and her ability to carry a gun. It becomes common knowledge who she is (was), a daughter of a Russian spy and now has less anonymity than she had before (because now more people know that she was born to Russians).As the season progresses Liz we find is pregnant and wants to marry Tom at a church and the wedding is interrupted by a group of 26 people armed to the teeth and being directed with someone like Aram using a defunct satellite network. They fail in their mission to capture Liz whom we find out is the target but wanted alive. A chase ensues and Liz eventually holds up at a club turned emergency hospital. Tom is now a loan parent who wants to avenge his wife's death and at the same time has to take care of the baby who is premature. This is one of the saddest moments of the series. How could the writers do this? What were they thinking?The next episode is one of the strangest ones in that it's really about Red and what is going on in his mind. That episode ends with Red stumbling across a guy who was using a metal detector to dig up what turns out to be a locket from Liz's mom who supposedly committed suicide on that same beach some 25+ years earlier. What?Later we learn that Tom and the baby are on their way to meet Liz who is still alive and it was Mr. Kaplan who decided that her commitment was to Liz and her baby, Agnes, ahead of Raymond. We also learn that Tom (who went by the name of Jacob Phelps) has a Mom whom he wanted to kill by the name of Susan Hargrave because she was working for Alexander Kirk who we come to find in the end says that he is Liz's father, Konstatin Rostatov and has both Liz and the Baby who is on the way to him.So more threads were sown up and new threads created and unraveled. The show is entertaining and at times hard to follow. I am hooked and now watching Season 4with 5 on tap knowing that 6 will be broadcast soon.

Love this show

Great drama.

Wow, I have all three seasons of this Series and I really like this story line. This is one of the better shows on TV and the time it is on makes it difficult for me to watch during the active season. I wait anxiously for the release to DVD. This is another series that does not get enough promotion. It is a very intense storyline which leaves you with all these questions about who Raymond Reddington really is in relation to Elizabeth Keen. There are times when you don't know who is on which side and even what the 'sides' are. This is not a series that you can skip around and watch an episode here and there. If you try that you will have no clue what is going on. The actions of the main characters will surprise you and their attitudes given the circumstances at any given time will boggle the mind. If you like movies that challenge you on what you think is 'right & wrong' then you will enjoy this series.

Excellent condition and movie

Is painful to not give five stars for this season of such a fantastic series. Season Three started off great, but then, in the episode of Lizzie getting remarried and a church battle - came the most disappointing and ridiculous bits that parody so many stupid scenes in other shows in the last century. A glitter ball? Playing one of the worst songs ever that necessitated going to mute? Banjo music? Making James Spader lower himself to participating in such a stupid episode? It was like suddenly finding a giant hairy wart on a beautiful woman's face. Just hard to believe the show could survive that. But then, thanks to the superb acting by Mr. Spader, the next episodes slowly recovered the beautiful cinematography and dialogue. So still giving Season Three four stars, but a warning that you may get nauseated during the birth episode.

The Blacklist is SO GOOD! Spader is perfect in the lead. My only gripe with the show is how Megan Boone's character is so "it's all about me". In a some of the shows (I have all 3 seasons) Red is telling Lizzy about some criminal who is gonna do something that is gonna kill many people. Lizzy will try to divert him with questions about her own past. True, she has a case to be made, but she's just a little too millennial for a good FBI agent, for my taste.Having said that I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!!

Loved the series; wish it had not ended!