Why there won’t be The Blacklist season 11? Exploring the season 10 ending
“We’re on borrowed time”: James Spader Revealed Why The Blacklist Getting Season 11 Never Made Any Sense
James Spader delivered an iconic performance as Raymond “Red” Reddington, the main character in the hit NBC crime-thriller series The Blacklist. The series lasted for ten seasons, airing from 2013 to 2023, attaining Spader critical acclaim for his role. However, Spader was adamant that the series could not continue beyond season 10.
The Blacklist starred James Spader as Red for ten seasons (Credit: NBC).
During an interview, Spader addressed the show’s eventual conclusion with its tenth and final season. At the same time, Spader also addressed the possibility of the series continuing with an eleventh season, which the actor quickly shut down. Here is why Spader thought that The Blacklist was destined to end after almost a decade on air.
The Blacklist Star James Spader Revealed Why the Series Never Got a Season 11 James Spader admitted The Blacklist had changed too much by season 10 (Credit: NBC).
James Spader played Raymond “Red” Reddington,.
A year after The Blacklist ended, one question keeps nagging at me.
It’s been just over a year since the final episodes of The Blacklist debuted, but it’s only been a few months since I finished a massive binge of the entire 10-season series. While I have already written about the fact that The Blacklist’s biggest mystery is no mystery at all, that doesn’t mean that the show ended for me with no open questions. I have several, and most of them have to do not with how The Blacklist ended, but with how it might have ended.
A lot of people have issues with the way The Blacklist ended for Raymond Reddington. It was a somewhat anti-climactic finale for a character who seemed capable of anything. But I’m not thinking just of how things could have ended for Red, but how things could have ended for Elizabeth Keen if The Blacklist had ended two years earlier
The Blacklist was officially renewed for Season 9 in January 2021, just after Season 8 premiered. This means the showrunner and the writers knew for most of the season, and almost certainly before the final episodes of Season 8 were written, that the show would need to go on.
However, they also knew the show would go on without one of its major characters. Megan Boone, who had played The Blacklist’s co-lead, FBI Agent Elizabeth Keene, had reportedly given her notice long before the show’s renewal that Season 8 would be her last. This meant that season would be an end for a major character, and the show would need to figure out how to go on without her.
