Raymond Reddington (No. 00): Good Night
- Episode aired Jul 13, 2023
- TV-14
- 43m
Series finale, part 2. The future of the FBI's Reddington Task Force is decided.Series finale, part 2. The future of the FBI's Reddington Task Force is decided.Series finale, part 2. The future of the FBI's Reddington Task Force is decided.
- Carolina
- (as Clara Chain)
- Ernesto
- (as Jose Luis Ferrer)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe last scene is accompanied by the song "A Mi Manera (My Way)," written by and made famous by Frank Sinatra. This version, recorded by the Gipsy Kings, is in Spanish and has a less iconic tone than Sinatra's recording, but still makes the point that nothing in life matters more than living on your own terms (and presumably dying that way as well).
- GoofsThe car that Ressler drives in Seville has an impossible license plate (B 25G8 4F): old license plates in Spain had the province initial (B would be Barcelona, quite far from Seville), 4 numbers and then 1 or 2 letters (so B 2548 GF would make sense), but this numbering system was abandoned more than 20 years ago. Current license plates are 4 numbers and then 3 letters (these are assigned consecutively regardless of the province).
- Quotes
Dembe Zuma: After I was shot, lying there on the street - I thought I was dying. And in that moment, I was okay with that being the end. With all the things going through my mind - I also thought of Raymond. More than anyone I've ever known, he's always been at peace with death. He says death is inevitable. It will come for us all. And that inevitability robs death entirely of its significance. What matters are the things that are not inevitable. The things we create. The things we find. The left we take when everything in our life is leading us right. How we live. I've always loved him for that. For his remarkable refusal to "go quietly into that good night."
Harold Cooper: The poem - by Dylan Thomas. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
- SoundtracksA Mi Manera
(Comme d'Habitude)
Music by Claude François and Jacques Revaux
French lyrics by Gilles Thibaut
Performed by Gipsy Kings
The editing and the script feel like the creators where undecided on how they would film this. They were tired and gave up.
The last season started somewhat ok, turned better, the previous episodes had some long-missed adrenaline, and then this... I can see what the writers tried to do, show that Red was going to do things in a "Frank Sinatra - My Way" style.
The episode is very low budget, Dembe has a few lines, Red is just there as a decor and the rest of the team are walking around the set aimlessly.
Red was a well written and well-acted character that some of us have been following for 10 years, there were so many mysteries behind him that could have been answered in this last episode, but sadly they were not.
Not only that, but recent story branches were completely abandoned, like what happened with his love interest? Or what about that famous bull he wanted to return to Spain? Was he ill, terminal maybe?
There are no surprises, or reflections, or any future, or any goodbyes whatsoever, no it seems the writers wanted to leave all that to our imagination and interpretation, but the way this was filmed is so bad and horrible, that feels like they left tons of filmed scenes in the bin, and they only left us with half an hour footage of people walking around.
This is an ending as bland as a coed's first try at cooking.
- ikari1
- Sep 13, 2023