The Blacklist rarely gets credit for its weirdness, but maybe this episode, the Season 7 finale, will be the one to turn the tide.
Much has been made (rightfully) about the quarantine-induced decision to complete the half-finished episode with "graphic novel"-style animation and accelerate some of the plot lines to function as a thrilling season finale.
But "The Kazanjian Brothers" was also, suddenly, the last episode for Brian Dennehy, who died in mid-April once production had already been shut down.
And, of course, the hour had to follow last week's surreal guest spot from Al Roker. Given these unfavorable circumstances, the episode was a huge success — and still thoroughly, charmingly strange.