The whole of season two brought out some hidden and curious side of Liz, which got me more interested in the whole series, but season 3 made me realize why she was the back bone of the series and maybe the most important character in The Blacklist aside from Raymond. Watching this season, I saw how everything around her was falling apart.
She went from trying to figure out her life around Raymond into turning into a wanted fugitive after killing the attorney general. She lost herself at the same time, safely discovering a part of her childhood while she fell into Raymond's world as she made a decision that changed the course of her life.
I never thought she could change at the beginning, but the season made me know that even the most naive can change just as Liz did. At the beginning of this show, Liz thought that there was a clean line between who she could trust and who to arrest. But after the attorney general manipulated the assistant commander of the task force that Liz shot, that line vanished. Liz had no other choice than to run with Raymond and, for the first time in her career, was not trying to observe how the criminal world works from the outside. She was in it with the most wanted criminal.
Raymond still remains my favorite character because he carried the series, and I still like how terrifying he can be without raising his voice. What I like about this season was seeing how Liz got closer to him with almost no effort. Raymond could be so manipulative and could do that to anyone around him, but this time, Liz has just become a fugitive, and the calm side of Raymond started to disappear. And seeing this alone made their relationship deeper than seeing a most wanted man working for the task force.
And yes, Ressler has become a bit more mature in the season. Because at the beginning, he was doing like the most holy among them, like he couldn't break any rule, but after he was put in a different position to hunt Liz, it changed everything for him. Deep down inside him, he knew Liz to be a better person than what the government had painted her to be. But he still had to just carry out his job. I love watching most of the scenes here because I got to see what loyalty can do and how it can get simply choosing a side.
I also like how Aram and Samar played out their role here. Because they went from being another member of the task force to becoming two people who genuinely cared about Liz, especially Aram, and decided if protecting her was worth the silent risk they were putting on themselves.
Another character that I couldn't ignore was Liz's husband, Tom. Though he still has a very messy relationship with her, I like seeing how they were trying to make everything work together with what happened between them. Then the whole story changed when Liz got to know she was pregnant for Tom. Suddenly, they had to set down their differences.
After Liz's pregnancy was made known, they settled their differences and both got married. But this relationship stirred up a lot of people, like Mr. Solomon hunting Liz, while Alexander Kirk believed that he was the father of Liz. Then he kidnapped her and her baby, hoping that she would use either of them to cure the illness he has.
But the scene that gave me a lot of goosebumps was when Raymond was holding Liz after her apparent death. This scene got so emotional for me because two things happened. Raymond was broken while the person he cared about was lying dead.
For me, season three was where the real series started even though it felt like it was the end of it after Liz's apparent death. It also shows how much Raymond can go to protect those that he loves, people he calls family and those he identifies with. So, I'll give it a 9.7/10 because in this season, Liz went from asking questions to becoming someone that Raymond himself had to worry about.
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Rating: 97/100
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