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  • Megan Boone: “The Blacklist’s” Elizabeth Keen Expecting Third Child

    Megan Boone is best known for starring in the NBC hit show The Blacklist. Boone plays FBI agent-on-the-run Elizabeth Keen, opposite James Spader’s Raymond “Red” Reddington. Fans are likely now wondering if next season, Megan Boone’s character might be pregnant, since the actress just announced she’s expecting her third child.
    How might Liz Keen as a pregnant woman play into the series?

    Avid Blacklist follower’s thoughts will likely first turn to Tom Keen. Once married to Megan Boone’s character, he has been trying to prove her innocence in recent episodes, as well as protect her during her time on the run. In the first season of The Blacklist, Tom and Elizabeth Keen were planning to adopt a baby.

    Megan Boone is about three months along in her pregnancy, meaning if it is written in to The Blacklist, it would impact next season’s episodes. TVLine reports The Blacklist is planning on another 22-episode season, so either they’ll write it in or Megan Boone will spend the season strategically hiding her growing belly.

    Megan Boone expressed her gratitude in an Instagram post on Tuesday for the congratulations her Blacklist family offered when she made her big announcement.

    “Home, after a long day’s work with my Blacklist family, to your “congratulations” and his shepherds pie. Life is good. Thank you for your continued love and support,” she captioned her post.

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    Do you expect The Blacklist will feature a pregnant Elizabeth Keen next season as Megan Boone’s pregnancy becomes obvious?

    They’re clearly keeping Tom Keen (played by Ryan Eggold) for something more than to simply rescue Liz and help prove her innocence. If not, he’d have been gone for good last season.

    Are you a huge Megan Boone fan? Fans of The Blacklist can’t get enough of the dynamic actress.

  • Megan Boone: ‘Blacklist’ Season Finale “Full Blown Thriller”

    Megan Boone described Monday night’s season finale of The Blacklist as a “full blown thriller.”

    “It’s kind of keeping with what we’ve done all season,” she told reporters about the NBC drama’s season finale during a press event last week. “I don’t think we’d be doing it justice if we didn’t make it a full-blown thriller.”

    And it definitely lived up to the hype. Megan Boone was her typical deliberate self in her Lizzie Keen persona as she learned one fellow agent was dead and another near death. She broke once during the finale when Tom Keen (played by Ryan Eggold) was shot by none other than Raymond ‘Red’ Reddington himself. Her memories of better times momentarily flooded her sensible side. Tom survived just long enough to whisper something vital into Lizzie’s ear.

    Reddington admitted early on in Monday night’s episode while he was imprisoned that “the girl” who, of course, everyone knew to be Agent Keen even before he divulged as much, was ‘worth it.’

    Megan Boone would no doubt say that her role as Elizabeth Keen was well worth it during this amazing season of The Blacklist as well.

    “What I really like about the finale is it leaves you in a place where you get a sense of where we’re going for season 2,” she said during her interview. “It’s exciting and it’s a new direction.”

    That direction was rather well defined as the season finale neared its end on Monday night. Lizzie asked Red if what Tom told her–that her real father was still alive–was true. Even though Red said no, a glimpse at his burned and scarred torso as he tended a bullet wound at the show’s close says otherwise.

    Megan Boone is one of the high points of The Blacklist. Fans are no doubt counting the weeks until they see her on TV once again in her role as Lizzie Keen.

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  • James Spader: ‘Blacklist’ Compared to ‘Columbo’

    James Spader keeps fans coming back week after week to watch the NBC hit show The Blacklist. He and costar Megan Boone have some kind of chemistry that outweighs any of the show’s absurdities and the cast of characters behind Elizabeth Keen and Red Reddington’s bizarre interactions. One must admit it’s a bit far fetched to watch Keen observe a high profile international criminal like Reddington walk in and out of the FBI headquarters per his will. But that’s how it is–and fans love it.

    Time magazine compares The Blacklist to Columbo.

    “Perhaps Peter Falk was one of those actors who, like James Spader, is so easy to pay attention to that the idea of applying any kind of critical thought seems almost frightening, in case you realize that the show was actually kind of terrible and coasting on the lead actor’s charm all along,” they recently published in their entertainment section.

    They later take a bit of a softer approach, saying, “But at least The Blacklist has the ingredients necessary for contemporary Columbo-esque greatness. We have Spader at the center (or, center-adjacent, at least), gleefully enjoying the larger-than-life quality of his character, as well as villains played by recognizable actors, who we can root against for reasons beyond their criminal activities. On Falk’s show, there was always an element of class warfare in play as Columbo regularly proved that being rich and successful didn’t let you literally get away with murder, while in Spader’s we have characters who are not only criminals, but also on some level misrepresenting themselves within society and fooling the common man for nefarious, selfish reasons.”

    The comparison between the two hit TV shows likely won’t gel with most, even when looking past the upgrades in technology, criminology and even acting that have taken place between the time Columbo reigned in the late 60s to late 70s and the inception of The Blacklist this past September. James Spader has a special finesse Peter Falk lacked–not because he wasn’t a good actor, but because that’s not what the character called for. And The Blacklist seems a bit more intricate than a standard “whodunit.”

    This past Monday on The Blacklist a mole was revealed, and fans were likely surprised to learn who it was.

    James Spader was nominated for a Golden Globe for The Blacklist but didn’t win. By this time next year he will likely have an award or two on his shelf for his unique (read: non-Columbo-esque) hit show.

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