In the midst of a global pandemic, some of us seek out comfort and predictability. And few things are more predictable right now than The Blacklist getting fully nutty with it on NBC Fridays.
Following an uneven Purdue Pharma "ripped from the headlines" hour and a satisfying Agatha Christie riff that ended at a kid's ballet recital, The Blacklist submitted a peculiar-yet-entertaining episode with no fewer than five stories happening at once.
Most importantly, the show delivered one of its all-time great B-plots: Glen (Clark Middleton), Reddington's (James Spader) tracker, participating in a "Touch the Truck" competition to acquire a truck that is secretly full of tritium, a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen.