Warning: Full spoilers from the episode follow.
As Blindspot has progressed, my interest in the central mystery has started to wane. Even when the show is directly addressing Jane's backstory, we never seem to learn anything concrete or significant. This week's "Split the Law" gave us a few more glimpses of young Jane (or possibly Taylor Shaw) being taken away by a mysterious man and put into a warehouse full of other children. But these flashbacks were not as intriguing as the tattoo mystery at hand, and even that is beginning to lose its novelty.
Take tonight's procedural case, which was mostly centered around a dirty bomb threat and started out with one of the most boring hostage negotiations I've ever seen -- run by a bunch of alleged ex-MWA employees robbed of their pensions (but not really). Things picked up a little bit when the team realized the bad guys weren't who they said they are and took them down. That said, the formal introduction of Carter was surprisingly anticlimactic, and exposition-heavy to boot.
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As Blindspot has progressed, my interest in the central mystery has started to wane. Even when the show is directly addressing Jane's backstory, we never seem to learn anything concrete or significant. This week's "Split the Law" gave us a few more glimpses of young Jane (or possibly Taylor Shaw) being taken away by a mysterious man and put into a warehouse full of other children. But these flashbacks were not as intriguing as the tattoo mystery at hand, and even that is beginning to lose its novelty.
Take tonight's procedural case, which was mostly centered around a dirty bomb threat and started out with one of the most boring hostage negotiations I've ever seen -- run by a bunch of alleged ex-MWA employees robbed of their pensions (but not really). Things picked up a little bit when the team realized the bad guys weren't who they said they are and took them down. That said, the formal introduction of Carter was surprisingly anticlimactic, and exposition-heavy to boot.
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