After last week’s particularly strong “Leonard Caul,” which showed us how The Blacklist could actually be interesting, “Quon Zhang” pops up and reenforces one of The Blacklist’s most consistent problems: the convoluted and completely uninteresting crime of the week. After some of the big events from the last episode “Quon Zhang” attempts to still follow up on those moments, but because of the show’s insistence on having a new person on the list every week, it bogs down what could be some compelling, bigger picture moments.
The Blacklist has always enjoyed wasting our time, taking us down a ridiculously long rabbit hole to give us the smallest bits of information, which is exactly what “Quon Zhang” is all about. Zhang is a smuggler who has recently been specializing in digging up unmarried Chinese women under the age of 35 in America, in order to ship them back to China to be reburied with young dead men, so as to keep their ghosts at bay. Yup, we’re stopping ghosts now.
Maybe the best part of “Quon Zhang” is how little this case really matters and how little everyone seems to care about it. They originally think that Zhang is maybe smuggling something in the caskets. Nope. Could there be something inside of the cadavers? Nah. Just shipping dead bodies in order to have them buried somewhere else to stop angry, single ghosts. The only time the crew seems all that interested in this case is when it turn out Zhang has had a request from a family to kill a woman who left their son at the altar, who then committed suicide, so she can be buried with their son.
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