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The Blacklist (S3E01) -- "The Troll Farmer" -- 10/01/15




"THE TROLL FARMER"

10/01/2015 (09:00PM - 10:00PM) (Thursday) : LIZ AND RED ARE ON THE RUN - The season premiere kicks off with the FBI hunting Liz (Megan Boone) for the murder of the Attorney General. Red (James Spader) and Liz are named to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list and set out on the run to evade capture. Red calls upon a Blacklister called "The Troll Farmer," to help them flee the city, while the task force must question whom of their own can still be trusted. Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq) is put in a dangerous and compromising position. Harry Lennix, Amir Arison and Mozhan Marno also star. TV-14 V

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Re: The Blacklist (S3E01) -- "The Troll Farmer" -- 10/01/15

Thought it was a fun start.

Loved the Troll Farmer placing decoys and fake tweets about Liz and Red's whereabouts.

and go figure that Red casually betrays him after he helps him out.

Really surprised that they gave Dembe a pretty meaty plot. He's been pretty much a sidekick to Red for the first 2 seasons.

That ending with Liz going to the Russian embassy for asylum was an interesting cliffhanger.

The preview for next week does look pretty crazy.
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Re: The Blacklist (S3E01) -- "The Troll Farmer" -- 10/01/15

I figured he turned him in because he thought that he betrayed them.
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Re: The Blacklist (S3E01) -- "The Troll Farmer" -- 10/01/15

A very good start to season three… This is still my favorite show to watch. I'm kind of upset that this is opposite Sleepy Hollow now, but these are my two favorite shows on right now.
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Re: The Blacklist (S3E01) -- "The Troll Farmer" -- 10/01/15

This was at least the second time a show had a group spoofing social media to throw off the authorities, and each time they totally fucked it up. Ridiculous that somebody supposedly knowing what they were doing would blow it the way they portrayed in both cases. Ruined an otherwise solid episode.
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Re: The Blacklist (S3E01) -- "The Troll Farmer" -- 10/01/15

Great premiere. I always love fugitive storylines. Great blacklister. Too bad Red gave up the troll farmer.
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Re: The Blacklist (S3E01) -- "The Troll Farmer" -- 10/01/15

Whoo!! That is how you kick off a season! Very riveting stuff. I loved that he gave up the Troll Farmer after he said the contract was done. I thought for sure that the gal that gave them up would eat a bullet.
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Re: The Blacklist (S3E01) -- "The Troll Farmer" -- 10/01/15

It feels almost like a partial "reboot" of the show.
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Re: The Blacklist (S3E01) -- "The Troll Farmer" -- 10/01/15

So nobody was bothered that a supposed highly capable Blacklister was figured out just minutes into the whole plan because his team screwed up and made it obvious it was all fake?
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Re: The Blacklist (S3E01) -- "The Troll Farmer" -- 10/01/15

Originally Posted by Axeramm
I figured he turned him in because he thought that he betrayed them.
I think it's when the Troll Farmer said "after this, we're done," that sealed his fate. He was no longer of use to Red, so Red turned him in. Red has a habit of turning in Blacklisters immediately after they've become no further use to him.

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So nobody was bothered that a supposed highly capable Blacklister was figured out just minutes into the whole plan because his team screwed up and made it obvious it was all fake?
I think it was supposed to be because of the little amount of time they had to pull it off. A week later they would've had more resources for a larger flood of fake info, concealing the real escape ploy that much better.

For example, instead of just flooding fake info in the south of the city, flooding it with fake info all around the city, spreading the force too thin and making multiple escape points.
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Re: The Blacklist (S3E01) -- "The Troll Farmer" -- 10/01/15

Originally Posted by hdnmickey
So nobody was bothered that a supposed highly capable Blacklister was figured out just minutes into the whole plan because his team screwed up and made it obvious it was all fake?
The Troll Farmer was ranked way too high (#38) on the Black list. For the most part I felt this episode was a return to form and I liked Liz on the run with Red.

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