'The Blacklist' News, Spoilers: Series Creator Jon Bokenkamp Previews Season 3 Premiere
If it's the series creator Jon Bokenkamp to be asked, the premiere of NBC's hit crime-fighting drama TV series "The Blacklist" Season 3 does "feel like a pilot in and of itself" with the intensity of the plot that it promised.
This apparently echoes to what executive producer John Eisendrath told to TVLine that the upcoming season "will have a different feel." Though the major characters Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader) and Liz Keen (Megan Boone) will "still be delivering blacklisters," the show will also tackle heavily on the events that occurred during the finale of Season 2.
As a refresher, Liz and Red are now branded as fugitives by the FBI after the former popped Attorney General Tom Connolly down. With her named already written across the agency's Most Wanted bulletin board, this situation will cause "a lot of tension between those on the task force," the EP said.
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Bokenkamp clarified that the third season isn't really a "complete reinvention of the show," rather, "it is a great shot of adrenaline."
"There's a real energy and urgency, and it came from an organic place," he told the media outlet.
Eisendrath further divulged to the website that the hunt for Red and Liz will be a "slightly more serialized story" than what the show did in the past.
However, for those who are so eager to get the "concrete answers" on how Liz is related to Red, they might have to hold on to their horses.
Bokenkamp told TVLine that the whole truth of the matter "won't come until the end." However, along the course of the season, "many breadcrumbs have been laid out" leading towards the endgame of the show.
"In the course of 22 episodes, we will of course give more answers about the past," Eisendrath chimed in. "But at the moment the season opens, we are focused entirely on the present."
"The Blacklist" Season 3 kicks off on Thursday, Oct. 1 at 9/8c on NBC.
