The Blacklist: Will The Show Ever Reveal Who Raymond Reddington Is?

Since the beginning of The Blacklist Raymond Reddington’s true identity has been shrouded in mystery, but will the show ever reveal the truth?

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The Blacklist has had a lot of fun teasing the answer but will it ever reveal who Raymond Reddington is? The Blacklist is an NBC thriller that opens with notorious wanted criminal Raymond Reddington (James Spader) handing himself into the FBI. Red offers to help them track down other wanted criminals that he’s compiled on his own “blacklist.” His rather odd condition is that he will only work with rookie Liz Keen (Megan Boone), with his connection to her being mysterious.

The Blacklist has run for seven seasons thus far and has proven to be a highly entertaining procedural. This is largely down to James Spader’s performance and he shares great chemistry with Boone. The Blacklist positively revels in shocking twists and reveals, and proved popular enough to spawn a spinoff in the form of The Blacklist: Redemption. This latter series focused on Liz’s spy husband Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) and his mother Scottie (Famke Janssen), a private contractor.

The primary question for much of The Blacklist was who exactly is Raymond Reddington, and is he Liz’s father? Season 6 seemingly revealed the truth, revealing that yes, Raymond Reddington IS Liz’s father – but the man Liz knows isn’t Reddington. The real Raymond Reddington was in a relationship with Liz’s mother Katarina Rostova, who was really a KGB agent sent to seduce and enter into a relationship with him. When Liz was only four she shot Reddington while he was attacking Katarina.

The Blacklist then revealed Katarina’s friend and sometime lover Ilya Koslov – a KGB agent – took Raymond Reddington’s place following his demise, changing his face with extensive plastic surgery. Season 6 later revealed Katarina is also alive after she supposedly committed suicide by walking into the sea following Reddington’s death. Rostova once again casts doubt on Reddington’s real identity as Koslov in season 7, and it’s revealed he isn’t actually Ilya either. Instead, Ilya appears in the form of actor Brett Cullen (Joker), who is a good friend of the Reddington “impostor.”

So The Blacklist fans are back to square one when it comes to the truth of Red’s identity and his relationship to Liz. The prevailing theory is that he IS the real Reddington, who survived his apparent death and burning. He also doesn’t consider himself to be the old Raymond, and hence doesn’t see himself as Liz’s true father. If the show ever does reveal the truth about his identity, it probably won’t be until it’s coming to an end. Even then, The Blacklist is pretty amazing at subverting expectations, so even the “truth” may have an air of ambiguity to it.

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