Blindspot Season 1 Episode 21 Review: Of Whose Uneasy Route | Tell-Tale TV

Blindspot Review: Of Whose Uneasy Route (Season 1 Episode 21)

Lauren Busser Blindspot, Reviews

Alright Blindspot, after the mishap that was “Swift Hardhearted Stone” you may have won us back. “Of Whose Uneasy Route” ends with a feeling of vindication, but it starts on shaky ground.

This week, hackers attack the FBI. There’s no tattoo predicting it. There’s no real impetus for it. The hackers just attack the FBI so that they can get a list of undercover FBI agents.

Okay, that sounds great. Really interesting, but didn’t the shooting on the college campus give us a similar plot a couple weeks ago?

Yes, the scenario of an evil building is a classic device. Maybe we could have bought it if the hackers weren’t so doomed from the very beginning. What was their endgame? Do what I say or I’ll drop the people in the elevator from the top of the building? That doesn’t sound like much.

At least, not till you remember that Reade and Sarah are in an elevator and that threat puts their life in danger. Okay, danger realized.

It’s too early for Reade to die. Of course, locking him in the elevator allows the writers to dangle a shred of hope that Sarah and Reade would get back together. Then this happens:

So you lock two people into an enclosed space, we hope for them to get back together and then you rip our hearts out and crush them in your hands. (Oh wait, that’s the Evil Queen in Once Upon a Time.)

Regardless of the lack of a Sarah and Reade ship resolution, we did get a few good laughs with Weller breaking a glass window and Patterson and Jane busting through the HVAC system. Still, this isn’t one of Blindspot’s best episodes.

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Although we will admit that we did love seeing Jane and Weller attempt to reenact Spiderman:

And Reade being snarky while dangling in an elevator shaft:

Although the plot as a whole wasn’t particularly strong, the last few minutes of the episode are, and they give us something we’ve been waiting for: vindication.

You know how we’ve repeatedly said that Oscar shouldn’t be trusted? All those times he asked Jane to do things that seemed innocuous enough apparently had a more sinister purpose! Who would have thought?

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Now we know why Jane had to replace Mayfair’s pen, track the team’s vehicle, and insert that USB port into a computer. It was all to create a trail of evidence that will be used to frame Mayfair for murder.

Oscar if we didn’t trust you before, we definitely don’t now.

Jane’s face as she realizes what she has done says it all. This could be the moment when Taylor’s plan and Jane’s allegiances split, and we can’t wait to see how it all plays out.

With the penultimate episode airing next week, here’s the hoping that Blindspot ends its freshman year on a high note.

What did you think of this episode of Blindspot? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Blindspot airs Monday at 10/9 on NBC.

Lauren Busser is an Associate Editor at Tell-Tale TV. She is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work has appeared in Bitch Media, Popshot Quarterly, Brain Mill Press Voices, and The Hartford Courant.