"The Blacklist" Kuwait (TV Episode 2019) Poster

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7/10
Katarina
nick-botte27 October 2019
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Still don't understand all the sudden trust in strangers...
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8/10
How stupid can you be?
jaz-1555231 December 2020
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You are an FBI Agent, you have extra security outside your house, to protect you from a woman, there's a new female neighbour in the house of an older lady, who is vanished. And you nor the other agents are checking who she is. And what's more you are telling her abt the security and trust your daughter to her. Really scriptwriters this is so dumb and unrealistic that it's a joke.
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8/10
Just how stupid are FBI agents?
cecilstolberg14 May 2020
Love this show and the character RR which Spader plays brilliantly! I have watched it from the beginning, but just how stupid is Keen? And how does someone that stupid keep their job? She has constantly displayed errors of judgment and stupidity from the very first series and is still alive and still an agent of the FBI, totally unbelievable on BOTH counts!
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8/10
Something different - The Blacklist 704
nickzapapp1 January 2020
A nice out of pattern episode, where we get to learn a lot more about Harold and Red which are two important characters; while keeping us interested with the Liz - Katarina storyline.
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10/10
Exciting and so frustrating!!
nlc-2645827 October 2019
Harold have to decide if he will reveal Reddington's secret or not.
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8/10
Harold and Raymond Escape From Kuwait..:
drnikic4 June 2021
Road trip! The boys are off to the Middle East!

Violence and high jinks ensue!

Keen is being a moron as per usual. Sigh.
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6/10
Predictable!
gabriel-8027 October 2019
This season has so far been less than impressive. The writing is sloppy and predictable. The storylines far fetched and borderline stupid. I really hope the show has something better to offer in the horizon otherwise I predict a cancellation after this season.
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6/10
Strange things!
abuozama7 April 2020
I'm a Kuwaiti citizen, and live in Jahra city, and I know that the first scenes are NOT from Kuwait (and definitely not in 1989), we don't have Kurdish militia, cars' plates were with Iranian numbers! By the way, the Iraqi invention was in 1990 and the storm desert war happened in 1991
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6/10
Can Elizabeth really be so clueless?
reodvm8 September 2020
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Such a glaring plot hole that Elizabeth can blindly accept her new neighbour. She's supposedly trained as a profiler for the FBI yet welcomes this woman into her and her daughter's life without question!
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1/10
I think this is dumbest episode.
akhil_14 December 2020
Come on!! Keen with new neighbour and no one know and n one is suspicious. With all extra guards watching her. And how careless she is. She is super smart and at the same time ultimate dumb person/Agent.
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6/10
The thrills of babysitting
dierregi27 February 2021
This series it was supposed to be a crime story, but it turned into a dramedy about poor orphan Lizzy in desperate need of mum and dad, getting insanely attached to whomever claims to be her parent. Liz's already been through four dads and now she's dealing with mummy issues.

In this episode, while Red is conveniently out of the way, Cruella (I mean, Katarina...) spends time and resources to neutralise candidates to the thrilling job of nanny, so that she can be with Agnes and snoop around Liz's apartment. Because that's what super criminals on the run do.

And guess what? She finds a photo of Ilya and promptly informs her male companion (who the fug is that, anyway?) that now she can follow a promising lead... wait a moment? Did she forget that Ilya was her associate, the guy who replaced Red and who helped her escape? Shouldn't she know that already? Does she have Alzheimer?

And what about Dom? Liz promised to let him meet Agnes ASAP.... and yet she doesn't even check on his recovery... I guess that's because grandpa would tell her about Katarina. But why the secrecy? Does any of this make any sense? It surely makes for a laugh, being so insanely absurd.
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6/10
Unexpected Drop in Quality
wheelm23 January 2021
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The action scenes and CGI feel bizarre. The usage of green screens seems noticeable. For example, the scene at Arlington appears to me like that of a weatherman on the nightly news. When Red rescues Harold with the drone strike, I get early 2000's video games vibes. The visual quality was strikingly bad this episode. I've never written a review, but this compelled me to.
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6/10
Historically incorrect
gboshes128 October 2019
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Hutton's tombstone indicated he died in 1989 but US involvement didn't occur until 1991.
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3/10
Weird!!
naifalmmm3 October 2020
This is not Kuwait at the beginning of the episode and Kuwait has never been this violence. It's actually the safest country in Middle East. I like the show, but at least if you're gonna make an episode about a country, it's better to shoot it there.
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6/10
Still can't understand that!
abuozama7 April 2020
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It's repeated in this episode again! Liz and Cooper run the test on RR to confirm that he's her biological father... they didn't (and couldn't) do the same test for the dead person (from the bones) so why Liz still keep saying he's not her real father??!!
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6/10
Agent Keen is horrible
lakesbus19 November 2021
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Agent Keen's character is one of the worst in the history of TV. Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson are Nobel Laureates compared to how her character is written.
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6/10
Agent Kern's character is the the dumbest, ever
lakesbus19 November 2021
Agent Keen's character is written such that every woman should be insulted that any person on this planet would be that stupid. Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin are Nobel Laureates compared to her. If her character were written with some semblance of having brain matter that worked, this would be an almost perfect show. Due to her.. it's better than average.
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3/10
After a good start, this series now disappoints
ak202018 May 2020
This episode was historical and geographical rubbish, as others have reported. Even the IT and air travel were ridiculous.

Once again the writers of an American long running series look like they are bereft of ideas for sensible, believable stories.

And they have written in Keen - an experienced and trained FBI agent, in a specialist secret unit, permitting an unknown stranger look after her daughter. Oh dear !
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3/10
Stick to USA
hilalkhachab7 May 2020
You should stick to USA, you are making fools out of yourself. You didn't get one fact right about the countries in this episode, starting from Kuwait. Don't mess up this show any further.
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3/10
Every normal person checks the nanny
alansary6620 September 2020
Why doesn't an FBI agent check on a nanny's background I don't get it!!! Plus, facts and numbers of this episode are a bit off! Best thing I liked was the gamer part 👍🏼
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5/10
Kuwait wasn't like that in The 80s
mohammedalhmazi15 October 2020
I am upset how they show Kuwait in the 80s. It wasn't like that back than. It was actually one of the best times even tho we were facing some foreign threats. Am taking this personal because am from their lol
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1/10
Seriously Liz is an FBI Profiler? 😂
pyr-0993813 October 2023
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Elizabeth Keen is an FBI Profiler? Yet she trusts some new neighbor to watch her daughter? Even after Reddington was upducted because of Liz' KGB Mom? C'mon! Instead Liz just hands over her precious child carte blanche? Call it what you want inferior writing? Lazy writing? Out to lunch writing? Whichever you choose the demise of this show absolutely falls on the writers backs. It also doesn't help that Meagan Boone is a subpar actress. This show is beneath James Spader's talents & resume. BTW Keen said she got Reddington's DNA when he first started w/FBI & it was a match to hers proving he's her bio dad. Now she says he's not her father but someone she's grown to love. 🙄
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5/10
An FBI Profiler Is What She Is NOT
noonieblount5 September 2022
At this point I want to Google upcoming episodes and seasons just to get it out of the way. This show started going down hill after Season 1.

The writers wrote Keen as this top of her class, best ever, FBI profiler and she can't profile the creepy woman that has moved in across the hallway.

Let's think about something....she gets Agnes back and this woman mysteriously shows up. The men that are guarding Agnes don't recognize the creepy new neighbor? Why would Reddington not give Keen and the task force a description of Katarina?

At this point I started reading reviews in hopes of finding spoilers so I can fast forward through the episode because the storylines have become soooooo freaking boring and drawn out.
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5/10
Liz too naive to be true!
ndminh-7789814 October 2020
Can you believe that Liz, after all that has happened, could entrust her daughter to a total stranger who has just moved in next door in place of her previous neighbor who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared?

Interesting to see the development of the Katarina-Liz connection, but not in this less than average way.
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3/10
Not Much Fun Any More
Hitchcoc3 December 2022
So Cooper is going to blow the lid off Reddington's identity. He's going to his superior because he has a sense of duty. Reddington has save a thousand lives so what about the duty to them. Some guy got captured in Kuwait during the Gulf War and Harold feels responsible, even though he was overcome by the soldiers. That story is dull. The only thing I found interesting was the drone attack set in motion by an overweight gamer. The other plot continues to be Katarina and Elizabeth. Katarina wants to kill Reddington and is using stupid Liz's apartment as a setup. Who, exactly, are the FBI men guarding her place protecting her from. I'm so tired of Elizabeth and her mother thing.
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