SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “The Skinner,” the Season 9 premiere of “The Blacklist.” “The Blacklist” has officially moved on from Liz Keen’s death. The NBC drama returned for its ninth season on Oct. 21 with the first episode since the exit of Megan Boone, who starred as the former FBI profiler since the pilot. While Boone left to work on other projects, Liz was shot and killed just as she was about to kill the terminally ill Raymond Reddington (James Spader) in order to take over his criminal empire and valuable blacklist. Of course, that happened just before Liz could learn Red’s real identity once and for all, but the show gave viewers enough information to guess that Red might actually be the adopted identity of Liz’s mother, Katarina. The premiere picked up two years after Liz’s death, with Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq), now an undercover FBI agent, getting badly injured in an explosion and ending up in the hospital while his partner was killed. His assailants, who were trying to steal important microchips, were sporting mysterious tattoos, which led a retired Cooper (Harry Lennix) to get his team back together to figure out which dangerous person or organization was responsible. He pulled Aram (Amir Arison) out of an investor meeting for his new cyber security business and took Alina (Laura Sohn) away from a class she was teaching, but a bearded Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff) wasn’t interested in abandoning the car he was working on to get back in on the action, especially if Red was involved. Ressler still blamed Red for Liz’s death, and he wasn’t the only one. Red, of course, was the only person who could help identify this villainous tattoo, so Cooper had to track the man down in Havana. That meant Cooper had to be drugged in a bar, then taken to some strange place where Red was being guarded and cared for by a shaman. Once Cooper was suitably rubbed down with an egg (don’t ask), he got to have a chat with his old friend and learned quite a bit about a man known as the Skinner, who might be a 700 year-old pirate but is also the leader of a group of criminals who burn people alive, and his identity changes over time in a line of succession. He’s “more myth than man,” Red said, but they had to find the man who personifies the myth. While Red wasn’t exactly interested in joining Cooper’s little meetings with his recreated team, he was interested in the fact that Cooper is taking care of Liz’s daughter, Agnes, though Cooper didn’t think it was the best idea for Red to see her. Red eventually agreed to help the team by tracking down the Skinner’s predecessor, Vincent, who Red kidnapped with some acting work from Cooper, Aram and Alina. Red convinced Vincent that it was in both of their best interests for him to reveal the Skinner’s current identity, and got the name of a guy who just checked into a hotel in New York. Cooper and Alina got on a plane, joined by a surprise Ressler while Aram chased down his investor. Things went badly for Aram when he had to use the investor’s computer to hack into a database to identify a man being tracked by the Skinner, but he was able to find out that the Skinner was after the chief tech officer for the only company that makes the world’s most advanced microchips. Red then took off, taking all his resources with him, after Cooper still refused to let him back into Agnes’ life. The rest of the team, armed with only a unicorn printer courtesy of Agnes, visited Dembe to brief him on the somewhat dire situation. They got the name of the man who was kidnapped, but they didn’t have a whole lot more than that. Ressler then went after Red to tell him that he still had to care about the blacklist in honor of Liz, and the next name on the list is a former Skinner. Looks like Red and Ressler are going to be working together, and a new era for “The Blacklist” has begun, even if we still have no official confirmation on the identity of Raymond Reddington. “The Blacklist” airs Thursday at 8 p.m. on NBC.
The Blacklist fans breathed a sigh of relief when Red (James Spader) and Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq) finally made up. But unfortunately, their next chapter is on hold — for now. In the fall, the NBC drama returned with season 9 and folks wanted their questions about Liz (Megan Boone)’s death answered immediately. But instead, The Blacklist’s latest installment began with a two year flash-forward and it's been a slow process to discover what really happened that night. Now, it will be a little longer before Red, Dembe and the rest of the Task Force can get closer to finding out who shared Liz’s location. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. After coming back with new episodes in early January, The Blacklist is on hiatus again. Fans tuning in on Thursday nights have noticed that there are no new episodes. “NO EPISODE THIS WEEK???” one person wrote on the show’s official Instagram. “Why is this week a rerun??” another added. When is The Blacklist season 9 coming back? The Blacklist – Picture: NBC / Sony Television Pictures Surpassing 174 episodes, The Blacklist is back to NBC for season 9 with the new episodes dropping from October 21st, 2021. If you’ve cut the cord and watch the show exclusively through Netflix, here’s when you can expect season 9 of The Blacklist to be on Netflix. James Spader continues to play Raymond Reddington, a former criminal turned into the FBI informant who has helped the authorities capture countless notable criminals over the years with lots of other story arcs going on in the background. Netflix has carried the show in many regions (more on this below) since the show’s inception reportedly paying up to $2 million per episode. Season 9, which begins airing on October 21st for an unconfirmed number of episodes (we will update once we know more), has seen the departure of the creator of the series, Jon Bokenkamp. According to broadcast ratings, the series now only pulls in a third of what it used to average. 5.47 million viewers was the average viewing ratings for season 8 versus the 14.95 million for season 1. Given the past renewals, if the show is going to return for season 10, we’ll hear about in early 2022. When season 9 of The Blacklist will be on Netflix will entirely depend on where you live. So let’s dive into each of the three groups. Those who get weekly episodes, those that receive the season all at once, and those who don’t receive it at all. Some Netflix Regions Receive Weekly Episodes of The BlacklistSome regions of Netflix are lucky enough to get weekly episodes of The Blacklist. Among those that get weekly episodes include:
The Blacklist Season 9 Netflix Release ScheduleFor almost every other region, you’ll have to wait to get season 9 of The Blacklist. Some regions of Netflix will get weekly drops of The Blacklist. If your region of Netflix carried weekly episodes of The Blacklist season 8, you’ll get similar treatment again for season 9. For Netflix in the United States and Canada, you’ll have to wait until season 9 has concluded its run and then some. But we can give a pretty accurate estimate as to when that’ll be. All of season 8 was added to Netflix in the US on October 6th, 2021 with the full season leaving the NBC app on October 22nd, 2021. All prior seasons before season 8 hit Netflix CA & US in September. That means we’re currently expecting season 9 of The Blacklist to be on Netflix in September 2022. A few other regions are still missing season 8 including some European countries and Latin America. You should get season 8 sometime in 2022 with season 9 in 2023. Why The Blacklist isn’t on Netflix in the United KingdomMost of Netflix carries The Blacklist with a few notable exceptions. The biggest exception is Netflix UK which doesn’t have access to the show at all because the rights (both broadcast and streaming) were sold to Sky. That’s all we have for now. We’ll keep you posted on exactly when season 9 of The Blacklist will be coming to Netflix and any notable developments regarding the future of the show as and when we get it. Are you looking forward to season 9 of The Blacklist on Netflix? Let us know in the comments down below. Subscribe to What's on Netflix Weekly updates from What's on Netflix |
