Blindspot Review: Condone Untidiest Thefts (Season 2 Episode 5)
Like most good episodes of Blindspot, “Condone Untidiest Thefts” features a tattoo, a brilliant puzzle, and a convenient reason to have unlocked it at that time.
Top it all off, Allie is friends with one member of the mob family and another member–who is dying of cancer–will only speak to her.
Yes, this is all very convenient timing. Now, this case gets to drag Allie back into the FBI and put her out in the field with the team, so that she can get shot, and will ultimately learn that she has to take care of herself during this pregnancy.
Most of the episode, the biggest point of contention is Allie taking a desk job.
It makes sense. It’s the smart thing to do.
What anyone can glean from watching all the episodes of Blindspot, is that foresight is not a trait that these characters are in abundant supply of.
Between having seen similar plots like this one before and the preview for this week’s episode, I spent the first half of the episode facepalming every time Allie told Kurt to stop worrying about her.
While a part of me wants to applaud Allie for being independent and sticking up for what she thought was right, knowing what was coming with this cliche story-line made me want to shake some sense into her.
Let’s think back to last week, when Kurt told Allie that was with her. Of course, even before that, she came to him and wanted to tell him about the baby.
Yes, it’s the right thing to do in the situation, but if you are inviting him to have a dialogue about how he will be involved with your child, you must have a rational discussion.
Of course, Kurt is going to be worried about the mother of his child, but does that give her the right to endanger both herself and the baby?
When she makes it out of the firefight, largely thanks to Jane, she has a change of heart, although it’s mostly because of the injury. In the little heart to heart she has with Weller she talks about how she wants their child to know both of their parents.
That’s great Allie, but couldn’t you have realized that before when Kurt told you it was dangerous?
Baby Weller is a story-line that was briefly introduced and then came up as a blip on the radar the first few episodes.
Now the secret is out, and it’s no surprise that it’s a shock to Jane.
I haven’t been Allie’s biggest fan. She’s a U.S. Marshall that drops in from time to time and she has a history with Weller. She broke up with him because she could see he was interested in Jane.
The character’s personality hasn’t developed to the extent I would like. I would like to see more of her, but the addition of a pregnancy seems like a forced addition to the show.
In a show that involves inevitable danger, I don’t see where a kid fits in.
Yes, this reveal of Allie’s pregnancy is dramatic, but what happens after the child is born? Is it just going to disappear and come up in casual conversation like just about every kid on Grey’s Anatomy?
Stray Thoughts:
- Lots of scandalous tapes in this episode. I am going to avoid writing another 400 words about how this parallels to the election, but if you’re following the U.S. Presidential Elections you probably see the same similarities I do.
- When will they learn that sharing confidential information never goes well? First Patterson (twice!) and now Zapata. Pretty sure Nas means it when she says she’ll have her badge.
- Was anyone else hoping for more in regards to the ring? I was really hoping it had some significant meaning for Jane. Like a “best friends” ring or something.
- Also, who is Chris? What were Roman and Shepherd talking about? They lied to her? Really? You mean that someone else gave Jane an identity and a set of parameters to construct a new self around? You don’t say? I’m not surprised. I am curious to see how much of their story is a fabrication.
- Bordenson sighting. They’re adorable and just the kind of levity that the show needs.
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Blindspot airs Wednesdays at 8/7 on NBC.
Lauren Busser
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.
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Love the puzzles/mysteries/action of this show and have been it’s biggest fan since it began. However, I have never understood the purpose of the baby. Did not see the need to ‘fix’ Weller’s character-never saw that he was broken.. It looked instead like a soap opera-esque change in the show. Jane in the other hand can use a lot of fixing. She has been visibly broken since shortly after being born. I only hope that this baby is a twist that will go away before the end of this season.
The timing of it just seemed like it was extending and morphing Weller’s “daddy issues” since his death bed confession. Sort of an…”okay, now I have to deal with being a father myself” moment.
While I am all for symmetry. this plot didn’t do anything for me. Allie has the potential to be involved in much more interesting ways. She’s a federal marshall. Who knows who or what her organization could be hiding? With the pregnancy, she’s now in a storyline that is familiar, she’s the love interest, and now with the pregnancy, she’s been taken out of the field so what are they planning for her? Is she going to hang around the lab and learn from Patterson? I can’t see that working out either.
I have loved this show since the first time it aired and am probably the biggest fan. However, I do not understand the purpose of the Weller baby. The ‘funk’ that Weller was in was not visible to me. Jane, on the other hand, could definitely use a boost. The boost that she has needed since birth has been too long in coming. I’m hoping that the baby is a twist that isn’t real or will go away before the end of the season because it doesn’t make sense in the long run for this show.
I, too, love this show, but I don’t like it right now. I’m very disappointed in the storyline. What is Weller doing? He’s acting as if he is in love with Allie, which he never was before. I feel sorry for Jane, at this point.
I saw a promo for episode 6, and Weller & Nas are kissing. I’m really confused. What is the point of all this?
It seems that Jane & Weller are over.
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