Crime thriller show with 'best ever opening' now streaming in its entirety

Crime thriller show with ‘best ever opening’ now streaming in its entirety

Stephen Porzio

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Holding a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes, the series only wrapped up last year.

All 10 seasons of a crime thriller series with a “best ever opening scene” are currently streaming on Prime Video.

That show is titled The Blacklist and stars James Spader (Avengers: Age of Ultron) as Raymond ‘Red’ Reddington, who begins the series by casually strolling into the FBI’s headquarters in Washington D.C. and requesting a meeting with the agency’s director.

After providing his name to the clerk, he calmly gets on his knees and puts his hands behind his head as armed police officers gather around him.

It is only then we learn that Red is on the list of the FBI’s ten most wanted fugitives.

You can watch the scene below:

The plot synopsis for The Blacklist reads:

“For decades, ex-government agent Raymond ‘Red’ Reddington has been one of the globe’s most wanted fugitives. But then he agreed to work with the FBI to catch his ‘blacklist’ of mobsters, spies and international terrorists – on the condition that he must work with profiler Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone).

“Red’s true intentions — choosing Liz, a woman with whom he seemingly has no connection — are unclear. Does Liz have secrets of her own? Red promises to teach Liz to think like a criminal ‘to see the bigger picture,’ whether she wants to or not.”

After the show’s striking opening – its pilot was helmed by director Joe Carnahan (Copshop, Narc, The Grey) – The Blacklist ran for ten seasons between 2013 and 2023 and even got a spin-off titled The Blacklist: Redemption in 2017.

Yet, despite a decade passing since the series’ beginning, people are still talking about it as evident by the following Twitter posts: