{"id":3693,"date":"2014-09-18T06:48:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T10:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2015-01-03T06:49:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T11:49:51","slug":"the-blacklist-under-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3693","title":{"rendered":"The Blacklist: Under Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since the ads on network television drive me crazy, it\u2019s ironic that ads have persuaded me to watch the second-season premiere of The Blacklist<\/em><\/a>, Monday, September 22 on NBC. If you\u2019ve watched the show, you know it\u2019s an American crime drama starring James Spader, Megan Boone, Ryan Eggold, and Harry Lennix. The premise is that Spader, a high-profile fugitive\u2014Raymond \u201cRed\u201d Reddington\u2014emerges from the shadows to make a deal with the FBI. He\u2019ll help them capture a series of hard-to-nab global criminals, but only if they let him use a young profiler (Megan Boone) \u201cfresh out of Quantico\u201d to help.<\/p>\n

The show last season received pretty strong positive reviews from the critics, and in a recent Chicago Tribune <\/em>interview<\/a> about the upcoming twists, Spader said, \u201conce you start taking all those backroads, the backroads become much more interesting than the destination.\u201d Spader pursues those intriguing backroads with his characteristic intensity\u2014which led Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> to call him \u201cthe strangest man on TV.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what about those ads? The first one I noticed was the inside back cover of this month\u2019s Wired<\/em>, which showed Spader in a typical neon-drenched Wired <\/em>explosion, with mock-cover headlines like \u201cGet with the Program: Red\u2019s Shocking Next Move\u201d and \u201cOn the List, Off the Grid: Tracking the Criminals Still at Large.\u201d Clever. Then I spotted a fake cover in the 9\/8 issue of The New Yorker<\/em>, drawn by popular cover artist Mark Ulriksen (who drew the recent Derek Jeter cover), and you may have seen similar cover spoofs<\/a> in GQ, Rolling Stone, Time<\/em> and six other magazines. Spader\u2019s undercover under covers. Ok, I\u2019ll watch once, anyway. (Did. Not an immediate fan.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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