Blacklist is the more purely and criminally enjoyable of the night's new melodramas, largely because James Spader is so good at being playfully bad. A lot of the snazzy action and spiffy pacing may be a cover-up for subpar writing, but the pilot kept things entertaining enough that I'd like to see the second episode.

The Blacklist Revealed Who The Real Raymond Reddington Was For a long time, fans predicted that Red wasn't Liz's father - he was her mother. While the clues pointed to Red being her dad, and Liz might have died believing that was the truth, the truth is that Red was likely instead Katarina Rostova.

At about the same time she joined the FBI, she met Tom Keen and later married him, taking his surname. It is later revealed in “Sutton Ross” that the real Raymond Reddington is her father, not the imposter who took his place 30 years ago and is currently known as Red.