The Blacklist's Finale Was So Bad, It Made Game of Thrones Look Kind of… OK?
Alright, maybe not OK OK, but at least we have a finale that is just as insufferable.
A good story needs a good ending, because if you fail to conclude it properly, you get what Game of Thrones got: after years of nothing but praise from the fandom, you will be despised by pretty much everyone who used to worship you.
Well, it looks like The Blacklist, NBC's criminal drama that used to be loved by many crime thriller fans, is going through exactly that. Why else would everyone be fuming over a finale that is already more than a month away?
The Blacklist wrapped up its tenth and final season on July 13, but fans still can't get over it — in the worst way possible.
Not only was Raymond “Red” Reddington basically Dean Winchester-ed by a bull, but the series failed to actually reveal his identity — which kind of was the very reason most people even watched the show.
"By not revealing the identity of The Raymond “Red” Reddington, The Concierge of Crime, and such a lousy execution of the last season (season 9 was 100 times better than season 10), I have lost all the interest in ever watching any parts of these series ever again," noted Redditor NoNameStarup.
For many people, however, the Game of Thrones finale remains to be the worst one in the history of disastrous conclusions. By turning Daenerys into a mad queen, having Jon Snow killing her in the end, and by making Bran the king, the show basically destroyed its own greatness and casually butchered the source material in the process.
The Blacklist, however, ruined the very essence of the show by failing to stick to its roots and actually reveal the biggest mystery of the story.
It's not like we can expect the mystery to be revealed in later seasons; after all, the show is finished, and the reason for finishing it was exactly the "it-would-not-be-the-same-Blacklist-if-we-stretch-it-for-longer" card.
Well-well-well, if it isn't the failure to prevent exactly that, huh?