Blindspot Season Four Premiere | Review

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Today I'm finally going to get to my season four premiere review of Blindspot. If you've never watched the show it's about a mysterious tattooed woman who is found naked in a travel bag in Times Square by the FBI. She has no memory of her past or her own identity. The FBI discovers that her tattoos contain clues to crimes they will have to solve. It's an amazing show that is very different from your usual crime dramas. It's a thrilling action adventure that you will want to be a part of.

This premiere episode was great. I had forgotten what happened at the end of last season and when I realized it I was so excited for this season. When this show started I was afraid that they were going to run out of story, especially after season two. But they have shown us once again that there is more story to tell and I'm here for it.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Blindspot is one of my favorite shows. I remember when I started to watch it back in 2015, I was hooked right away. I remember telling one of my friends that she should watch the show and a few days later I got a text that said: "I hate you". She hadn't been able to do anything else than watch the show. That's what this show does to you. Season three, however, was probably my least favorite so far but the way it ended with Jane (Jaimie Alexander) turning back into Remi made me so excited for this season. And this premiere did not disappoint.

First off I have to say Jaimie Alexander is doing such an amazing job at acting slightly off all the time. With Remi being back trying to play the team we're getting these glimpses of her just hating everyone. The opening scene when they are in Tokyo was one scene that I think you could see a lot of that. It was how she interacted with Rich (Ennis Esmer). Yeah, she has never fully liked him before but there is just a tiny bit more bitch in her behavior. You can tell that something is off. Rich mentioned Roman at one point and she gets upset but Rich seems to just think she's irritated at him. The sword fight was great. Another clue to her being Remi again is when she kills Akiko (Rila Fukushima). Had she been Jane she would have done everything she could to take her in alive, especially when she's unarmed, but Remi wouldn't. Even Rich seems to be surprised that she did that. I wonder if he's the one who's going to piece it together. I really like the way that she acted around Kurt as well. She actually plays concerned really well. And it's mostly a plot for her not having to have sex with him and so on but still. When she looked at the picture on the counter I thought that maybe she is Jane but then no.

I love Rich's and Pattersons (Ashely Johnson) relationship. They are so funny together. The fact that Rich works for the FBI in the first place is great. I love Rich. His little comments and everything is so funny. He really is the comic relief of this show and I love that they decided to give him a bigger part. I never could have predicted this when we met him in season one. The little comment Rich gives Jane when he and Patterson are talking about the new cache with her and Reade (Edgar Brown) was amazing. "What is it about your family and puzzles?", I was laughing so hard that I had to rewind because I missed what they said after that. One thing that does make me feel suspicious is the fact that Rich wants to slow down on the whole Hank Crawford business thing. That makes me think that he has something to do with the company.

So through the newest cache, Patterson finds out that the ZIP that Jane was dosed with has never left her system and is slowly moving towards her brainstem and when it gets there it will kill her. I liked that we finally got an explanation for why Roman was hallucinating last season. I thought that maybe he was just going crazy but I like this twist. The cache has theories of cures, which I feel like it's a safe bet that they are going to find one in this season. I don't know if they would be able to kill off Jane and still carry on with the show. I mean it's about her, her tattoos. She's what started it all. They think that they have time since they don't know that she has had some of the more advanced symptoms like hallucinations and voices. But she starts to see Roman right after she gained this information. I really like the conversation between them. Jane, or Remi, is so set on finding anyone who could be left from Sandstorm to help her take everyone down. No one has suspected her yet. She is blaming Kurt and the team for Roman and Oscar being dead and Shepard being in prison and Roman is egging her on. I find this interesting because, in reality, it is her fault. Or Janes. But Jane was still Remi in a way so. It's the same person just one didn't remember Roman and Oscar and Shepard.

Remi has been reaching out to any Sandstorm members who might be left and the team knows. Well, they know that someone has been doing it but not who. They didn't tell Remi because she was taking care of Kurt and since they think she's Jane they didn't want to burden her until there was any concrete evidence. This is probably the only scene that I was thinking that Remi facial expressions should have given her away. She doesn't have her back towards everyone, shes facing them. And she looks so guilty. Like who the fuck wouldn't look at her and think that she's up to something? Anyways Remi has been reaching out to Sandstorm for weeks and no one has answered until now. It's a coded message and Patterson and Rich hasn't figured out what it means yet but Remi takes one look at it and knows. She excuses herself by saying that she has a headache and goes to meet this Sandstorm member, Dolan (Nyambi Nyambi). He does not believe that she's on his side and why should he? He knows that Jane turned her back on Sandstorm but he doesn't know that Jane has become Remi again. And how the fuck is he supposed to believe her? She gets him to trust her by getting them out of there right before Reade and his team storms the place. Dolan makes a point to Remi that it's only them now. Everyone else is either dead or in prison. They have no money or manpower to do what they want. But Remi has a plan to trigger a tattoo so that she can steal some money. The tattoo that they trigger is about an underground bank that launders money for gangs.

Kurt tries to talk Jane out of going on the mission. Remi almost loses her cover for a splitsecond because she loses her temper. He's in workout clothes so he shouldn't really say anything. If this was Jane she would have been angry at him for trying to do more than he should. He's still injured. He's trying to get back into the field but he's rushing it. Reade confronts Kurt about doing too much in an earlier scene. By the way, that scene was really nice. We see through out the episode that Reade is listening to a voicemail from Tasha (Audrey Esparza). He's dealing with her just disapering after them realizing their feelings for each other last season. I was so reluctant to like their relationship. I wanted them to be just best friends. I would like for just once to see an opposite-sex friendship not turn into a romantic relationship. But I like where they were going with it at the end and then Tasha just ran from everything.
Kurt asks Reade about Tasha and at first, he tries to play it off like it's fine. Kurt says something about them all missing her but I don't think anyone knows about what happened between them.
Back to Kurt and Jane. She convinces him that she's fine to be in the field and that they are going to get through this and when she walks away there's Roman saying that Kurt's going to be a problem. And he's not wrong about it.

Reade and Jane get to the underground bank and Jane convinces Reade that they should take different teams to cover both the front and the back. Jane gets the bank manager or whatever he is and tells the rest of the team to go and clear the rest of the floor. She gets him to open up the safe and then she knocks him out before stuffing a shitton of money into her vest. At least she didn't shoot him because that would have been very suspicious. She tells Reade that he tried to go for her gun so that's why she had to knock him out.

When they get back to the office they are talking about the bank. Patterson is concerned that the bank is working with a legitimate bank. Reade points out that that's what the tattoos have done since the beginning, uncovering government corruption and shady corporations. I think that this is going to turn into something bigger this season. We are probably going to revisit this in the future. Also, I haven't seen the rest of the episodes that have come out since season four premiered so maybe it has already happened. Anyway, they are talking and then Matthew Weitz (Aaron Abrams) walks in and announces that he's their new Director. He has been a fucking pain in the ass for the team in previous seasons but he is really funny at times. I'm excited to see where this goes. The team, however, is not that excited. Well except Rich. I love that Rich is the only one that thinks that Weitz is cool.

Remi goes to talk to Kurt. She plays Jane so well in this scene. She convinces him to not look after her all the time because it only makes her feel sicker. She's spewing all this bullshit about him being the first person she will go too if she gets worse. And he fucking falls for it. Sometimes she plays it so well.

Patterson finds out who Dolan is and where he is because he is too stupid to drop his phone after he met with Remi. Remi has no way of contacting him without being caught so she has to go with it. They end up in a car chase which ends up with Dolan crashing. He's badly hurt and Remi wants to take him to a hospital which makes me think that shes either stupid or doesn't want to be alone in this fight. And then he dies and now she is alone.
Back at the office, Remi tries to convince everyone that his death isn't a setback. She tries to tell them that Sandstorm is done now but they still don't know who he was meeting. Remi has now become the FBI most wanted. Even though the team thinks it's going to be impossible to find out who it is I think we all know that they will.

Kurt gets stopped by Patterson and Rich as he's leaving the office. They tell him that they found a number that Roman called over and over. Unfortunately, he wasn't actually talking to anyone real. They think that he was hallucinating which we know he was. Kurt gets upset and wants to go home to Jane. When he leaves Rich gives Patterson this look which turns into this argument about documents from Romans data caches. There is research in there that could be a cure but they don't know. Patterson doesn't want to tell anyone and get everyone's hopes up but Rich thinks that they shouldn't keep it to themselves. I don't know where I stand on this. I know that Jane is Remi now so it's hard for me to have a clear perspective on it. Patterson tells Rich to just let it go and not look at it and he agrees and I think we all know that that's not going to happen, I mean he even crosses his fingers. I love that.

Patterson goes to talk to Reade. She asks him how he is feeling about the Tasha things since she heard him listening to her voicemail. He says that he just wants to know where she is and Patterson drops a bomb. She knows where she is because she heard a noise in the background of the voicemail. She did some digging and found out where she is, or at least where she was. I think Patterson wants to find her almost just as much as Reade does.

The last scene of the episode was so cringy. Remi is watching Jane and Kurt's wedding video and repeating what Jane is saying. She's basically rehearsing a performance and Kurt walks in on her doing it. She plays it off as her trying to not forget their wedding and once again Kurt falls for it. Kurt goes to get some dinner for them and as soon as he's out the door Roman is there. Roman basically tells us Remis plan. She's going to break their mom out of prison and get revenge on everyone for all the people that she has lost which is rich coming from her since she's the one who has been the one to take all of those people away. It's just so ironic.

The b-plot to this episode is Tashas. She is in Paris with Blake (Tori Anderson). As we saw last season she has switched sides after being fired. She has been Blakes advisor for months. She tells Blake that she has to go in front of the board and claim her father's job. Blake does it and she is very convincing. She seems to have everyone in her pocket until they are having a toast and everyone dies except Madeline Burke (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). Tasha is left trying to convince Burke that she can be useful to her. Burke tells Tasha that her plan is to sink her own yacht and say that everyone died except Tasha and herself but Tasha has a better idea. A plane crash to have enough DNA in the ashes to ID everyone but not enough for them to find the poison, and she wants her to put her own name on the manifest. So now she will be dead and Reade and the team won't come looking for her. This makes me think that she actually has switched sides completely. In the beginning, I didn't want to believe it. But you never know with this show.
The last scene we see with Tasha and Burke is them watching the press conference from the FBI. Weitz is talking about his first day as the director and Reade is standing beside him. Burke sees that Tasha is looking at him and confronts her about their relationship. Tasha says that they were only colleagues. Burke tests Tasha by asking her if she could kill Reade and Tashas says "without question". She says it with such conviction that I'm even more convinced that she is a bad guy now. Burke says that Weitz is good for them, that he's malleable. I don't fucking know what they ahve planned. But I don't think it's good.

I loved this season premiere. The fact that Jane is now Remi is great. I can't wait to see the rest of the team figure it out. I also can't wait to see what Tasha and Burke are planning. I love this show so much and they have really started this season off with a bang.

/Johanna