User Reviews

Although 'The Front' is not without its memoriable moments (the final 10 minutes are moving and bitter-sweet), it utterly fails to bring fresh air to the show. The plot (although oddly prophetic in retrospect) becomes repetitive and, other than a few good pieces of dialogue, the writing is uninspired. Sadly, this episode fails to make 'The Blacklist' feel distinctive and wastes its personality. I hope this is only an exception in an otherwise fine, funny, chilling and thoroughly entertaining show.

Grade: 4.0 / 10

I found this episode a little silly. It might be due to increased knowledge of how infectious deseases work thanks to living in 2022, but I found this episode very unrealistic, pretty unbelievable and not very useful to the general storyline for the season.

I'm only coming to "The Blacklist" in 2021. Mostly I enjoy the series but this was a bit silly, ley lines and ancient germ warfare? I've never read any Dan Brown, but I gather this is about his level of tosh, so I won't be picking up any of his novels either....

I'm pretty liberal when it comes to accepting what is presented in these kinds of shows. But this one was too much. First of all, the idea that a handful of people would be tasked with holding down a worldwide plague is ridiculous. There are the usual deus ex machina events that save everyone at the last minute. Well, you say, the show is only about 50 minutes long. My point is you shouldn't bite off a topic like this. I know that Red is superhuman as a character, but there has to be some semblance of the real world. The last minute saving of the world is just silly. This subject could have been dealt with on a more modest scale and worked. Oh, and yes, using an old painting and interpreting it is so Dan Brown.

No need to write on and on over a single episode, esp. this one because everything is the same as Dan Brown's Inferno - so much so that I think they should have put his name as the main writer of this episode. And, as for my rating, I gave it a 1 because there are a zillion movies/series with this plague thing, a deadly virus killing millions of people. Nothing new. Repetition.

Little do the people of Earth know, 600 years ago the black plague was stopped and quarantined by the Templars after it killed everyone in Europe. (They maybe don't say Templars, but read the subtext people.) Then a group of four holy monks were tasked with saving the virus for later on the edge of the Earth. One ate it and died, but the others sailed him to America, where they lived with the Indians.

Anyway, now the FBI must stop a group of Greenpeace members (splinter group) who have solved the clues to uncover the burial site of the monks where the plague is still stored! But they don't stop them, so the plague gets spread everywhere, and it's kind of like a magical virus that kills within hours or something, probably why they needed the Templars to stop it in the first place.

Will the FBI discover a cure in time? Maybe!

People insult this episode for being stupid, but I'm going to tell you the truth, it doesn't get its biology any more wrong than it gets anything else in every other episode. It's not like espionage, the military, the FBI, organized crime, etc. Work anything like they do on this show. That being said, this episode is really stupid.