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2015 American law-breaking drama television series

Blindspot
Intertitle from the get-go two seasons
Genre	Criminal offense drama Action Thriller Mystery
Created by	Martin Gero
Starring	Sullivan Stapleton Jaimie Alexander Rob Brown Audrey Esparza Ashley Johnson Ukweli Roach Marianne Jean-Baptiste Luke Mitchell Michelle Hurd Archie Panjabi Ennis Esmer Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Composers	Blake Neely Sherri Chung (season iii)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	five
No. of episodes	100 (list of episodes)
Product
Executive producers	Sarah Schecter Martin Gero Marking Pellington (seasons one–two) Greg Berlanti Marcos Siega (seasons 1–two)
Producers	Howard Griffith (seasons ane–2) Harvey Waldman (seasons i–2) Ryan Lindenberg (season iii) Ryan Johnson (flavor three) Peter Lalayanis (season 3) Republic of chad McQuay (flavour 3)
Product locations	New York Metropolis, New York
Cinematography	Martin Ahlgren David Johnson
Editors	Finnian Murray Kristin Windell (season three)
Photographic camera setup	Unmarried-camera
Running fourth dimension	42–43 minutes
Product companies	Berlanti Productions Quinn's Firm Warner Bros. Tv set
Benefactor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	NBC
Flick format	1080i (HDTV)
Original release	September 21, 2015 (2015-09-21) – July 23, 2020 (2020-07-23)

Blindspot is an American crime drama television receiver series, created by Martin Gero and starring Sullivan Stapleton and Jaimie Alexander. Rob Dark-brown, Audrey Esparza, Ashley Johnson, Ukweli Roach and Marianne Jean-Baptiste co-star.^[1] Archie Panjabi, Luke Mitchell, Michelle Hurd, Ennis Esmer and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio joined the chief cast in later seasons. The Warner Bros. Television-produced series premiered September 21, 2015, on NBC. On May 10, 2019, NBC renewed the series for a 5th and final season,^[2] which aired from May vii^[3] to July 23, 2020.^[iv]

Premise [edit]

Blindspot focuses on a mysterious tattooed woman who is found naked inside a travel bag in Times Square in New York Metropolis by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). She has no recollection of her past or identity. They find that her tattoos contain clues to crimes they must solve.^[5] ^[6]

Cast and characters [edit]

Primary [edit]

Sullivan Stapleton as Kurt Weller, an FBI special amanuensis at the New York field part. In season 1, as head of the FBI Disquisitional Incident Response Group, he is called into the investigation of Jane when his name is found mysteriously tattooed on Jane's trunk. He comes to recognize Jane as his missing babyhood friend, Taylor Shaw, and becomes very protective. He has never recovered from the pain and guilt he suffered because of her disappearance. In the flavor ane finale, he is promoted to head of the FBI'south New York branch after Mayfair's disappearance. This is the goal of Stage One of the conspiracy behind Jane's tattoos: The tattoo investigations eliminated less ethical potential candidates; Weller also learns that Jane is not Taylor Shaw and that the real Taylor has been expressionless for years. He is so upset about beingness deceived that he arrests Jane and turns her over to the CIA. The two slowly rebuild their relationship from scratch in season 2, following her escape. At the start of season three, he and Jane marry and move to Colorado to stay close to Weller'due south girl, Bethany, but an attempted hit organized by Roman forces them back into the fight. Jane disappears for two years, and when they reunite and observe new tattoos on Jane's trunk, the two return to New York, where they rejoin their old squad and endeavor to track Roman down. In season four, he discovers that the furnishings of ZIP (the drug that first wiped Jane's memories) take acquired her to revert to her pre-ZIP persona, Remi, and are slowly poisoning her. These bug are resolved by successful treatments. In the end, subsequently the team is dismissed from the FBI, he and Jane expand their family by taking in several foster children.
Jaimie Alexander equally Remi "Jane Doe" Briggs (born Alice Kruger),^[7] an unidentified woman found naked and amnesiac in Times Square, who is kept in FBI protective custody during the investigation into her identity. Despite lacking conscious memories, Jane occasionally has flashbacks to her past life and retains a wide variety of gainsay and language skills. They suspect that she is a former Navy SEAL, whose identity is classified because of her involvement in special operations. On the basis of a familiar scar on the back of her cervix and a DNA exam, Jane is identified as Taylor Shaw, Weller's neighbor and childhood friend, who vanished 25 years ago and was presumed dead. The fate of the existent Taylor Shaw is revealed when Weller's father confesses to her murder on his deathbed. Weller finds Taylor's remains at an old military camp they used as children: The conspiracy that changed the records of the Taylor Shaw example contradistinct the Deoxyribonucleic acid test results. Born Alice Kruger, in South Africa, the orphaned Jane was trained as a child soldier by the apartheid government. Shepherd eventually adopted her and raised her as a daughter. At the showtime of season three, she marries Weller and the two motility to Colorado to stay close to Weller'due south girl Bethany. An attempted hitting organized past Roman forces them back into the fight: Jane disappears for two years. They reunite and, discovering new tattoos on Jane's body, they return to New York, where they join their sometime team and track Roman downwardly. During this time, Jane reconnects with her biological daughter, whom Shepherd had forced her to give up for adoption when Jane was a teenager. Jane discovers her ties to the conspiracy that Roman is trying to bring downward. At the end of the season, she reverts to her previous persona equally Remi—a side effect from ZIP, the drug that originally wiped her memories. During the showtime half of season 4, Jane, as Remi, secretly works against her squad in a bid to gratis Shepherd and rebuild Sandstorm. She is soon found out, and afterwards a successful experimental treatment, Jane finally puts her past behind her, makes peace with Remi, regains all of her memories, and kills Shepherd. During the second half of the season, Jane is forced to deal with the concrete effects of ZIP poisoning. The team finds a cure, in time. In the final episodes, she is ZIPed over again by a bomb planted by Ivy Sands. She suffers many hallucinations as she tries to locate Ivy and the last bomb. In the finish, she either dies from the poisoning or is cured and goes on to foster many children with Weller.
Rob Brown equally Edgar Reade, an FBI special agent and fellow member of Weller's team. He has doubts about including Jane on the squad and is skeptical of Weller'south willingness to follow the information from Jane's tattoos so quickly. He is in beloved with Weller'southward sister, Sarah, simply bankrupt up with her both at Weller's behest and because Reade feared for Sarah's condom later 1 of the grouping behind Jane's tattoos threatened Sarah. In season 3, he becomes the head of the New York field function later on Jane and Weller leave New York. He is engaged to Megan Butani, an investigative announcer, simply they interruption upwards. He also has romantic feelings for Zapata, and he finally acts on them, late in season 4. His happiness is short-lived: He is killed in the drone strike at the end of flavour 4. This is not revealed until the season five premiere. In season v, he appears in flashbacks and in the series finale equally a hallucination caused past Jane's Nothing poisoning. Tasha gives birth to his child, every bit is revealed in the last scenes.
Audrey Esparza as Natasha "Tasha" Zapata, an FBI special agent and fellow member of Weller'south team, previously an NYPD officer at the 96th Commune for five years. She has a secret gambling addiction, caused by guilt from the death of her NYPD partner, and is deep in debt, a fact she also hides from her co-workers. She has feelings for Reade. In season three, she leaves the FBI and joins the CIA. At the terminate of the season, she is supposedly terminated past the CIA, and goes to work for Blake Crawford as a fixer. After Blake's death in season 4, she works for her successor, Madeline Burke. Midway through the flavour, we learn that she has been working deep cover for the CIA all along, under Managing director Jake Keaton. In flavor 5, she hooks up with Reade shortly earlier his expiry in the drone strike at the first of the season, becomes pregnant, and raises their child equally a single mother. After the team's dismissal from the FBI in the series finale. she works as a private investigator.
Ashley Johnson as Patterson, an FBI special amanuensis and head of the FBI Forensic Science Unit, responsible for studying and identifying Jane's tattoos. In flavor 3, she leaves the FBI to work in the tech industry. After the ii-year fourth dimension-skip, she returns to aid solve Jane's new tattoos. Later in the flavor, we learn that Patterson is the girl of Nib Nye (who invitee-starred equally himself).^[8] She took her female parent's final name. In the series finale, after the team's dismissal from the FBI, she and Rich Dotcom go treasure hunters.
Ukweli Roach as Robert Borden (seasons 1–2; recurring flavour 3; guest seasons 4–5), an FBI psychiatrist who helps Jane to retrieve and sympathise her memories. He is afterward revealed to be Nigel Thornton, a former doctor and a Sandstorm mole within the FBI. After the FBI corners him, he apparently kills himself to avoid capture. In season 3, however, we learn that he faked his decease, and was found and recruited past the CIA. He goes to prison after Zapata reneges on his deal with the CIA, as justice for betraying Patterson. In flavor 4, Jane visits him, and he helps her to accept the lives and personas of Remi and Alice as part of her self. He later appears as a hallucination caused past Jane's ZIP poisoning in the serial finale.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Bethany Mayfair (flavor 1; guest flavor 2), assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York Field Office. Mayfair is directly in accuse of Weller and his team; she acts as their ally and mentor. She was once the FBI contact for Operation: Daylight, a programme to nowadays illegally obtained information as coming from reliable informants. Jane's tattoos may take some connection to Daylight. Subsequently Mayfair is framed for murder considering of evidence planted past an unwitting Jane, she discovers Jane at a prophylactic house used by the conspiracy. Oscar shoots and kills her. Despite her expiry and the damage to her reputation caused by her wrongful arrest, the team continues to remember Mayfair fondly for the residual of the series. Weller names his daughter afterwards her, and the team pays tribute to her and Reade earlier leaving the FBI offices for the last fourth dimension in the series finale.
Archie Panjabi as Nas Kamal (season 2; guests seasons 3 & 5), head of Zero Division, a clandestine department of the NSA. She has investigated Sandstorm for years, and forms a articulation NSA-FBI task forcefulness with Weller'due south team and Jane to try to infiltrate the organization. In order to protect the team from federal investigation, she resigns, taking responsibility for all of the chore force's failures. She spends time working freelance earlier she is able to use a tattoo example to acquire a powerful computer virus, trading it to the NSA in return for getting her job back. She returns in the series finale to aid the squad capture Ivy Sands.
Luke Mitchell equally Roman Briggs (born Ian Kruger) (seasons 2–3; recurring flavour four; invitee season 5), Jane'due south brother and a member of Sandstorm. Jane wiped his retentiveness with ZIP (the same drug that wiped her memories) subsequently he turned against Shepherd, and he remained in FBI custody for a while. Later on regaining his memories, including the fact that Jane erased them, he turns confronting her and rejoins Shepherd during her attack on the FBI'southward New York Office. In season 3, he devises a circuitous scheme to go revenge on Jane that involves covering her with new, bio-luminescent tattoos. At the terminate of the season, he is fatally shot by Blake Crawford, and dies in Jane'southward arms. In seasons 4 and 5, he appears as a hallucination, as a effect of Jane's Nada poisoning.
Michelle Hurd as Ellen "Shepherd" Briggs (flavor 2; recurring seasons iii–4; guest season 5), Jane's and Roman's adoptive mother and leader of the terrorist group Sandstorm. She was a major general with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and has been manipulating Weller'due south life since he was a teenager. She is captured at the end of season 2 after Jane and Weller foil her plans, and is imprisoned in a CIA blacksite until Jane, reverted to her persona of Remi, frees her during season 4. She is later shot and killed past Jane after the latter finally overcomes the mental effects of Zip, but later reappears equally a hallucination every bit a result of Jane'southward Goose egg poisoning in the series finale.
Ennis Esmer as Rich Dotcom (real name Gord Enver) (seasons 4–5; recurring seasons 1–3), a former reckoner programmer turned Net offense lord. Eccentric and manic, Rich oft embroils Weller'south team in elaborate, convoluted schemes to achieve his goals. Starting in season 3, he begins working with the FBI as part of a bargain for his past crimes. In the serial finale, after the team's dismissal from the FBI, he and Patterson go treasure hunters.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Madeline Burke (flavour v; recurring season four), a major stockholder in the Crawfords' company HCI Global, who takes over the company after fatally poisoning Blake and the other executives as part of a mysterious long-term program. At the end of the flavor, her plan, Project: Helios, takes result, causing a major blackout on the Eastern Seaboard. She frames Weller's squad for the attack and corruption, chairs an oversight committee for the FBI and eventually becomes director of all federal law enforcement. All this is part of a programme to avenge her begetter, who was killed in an FBI raid. Throughout flavor 5, Madeline exercises her new power. She intends to reform the world's governments, all under her leadership, by wiping the memories of the planet's population with ZIP. She continues to hunt the team, even forming an alliance with the terror grouping Dabbur Zhan and using ZIP on her oldest son when the team convinces him to turn against her. Well-nigh the stop of the flavour, she manages to capture about of the squad, simply to see her crimes and her associates' publicly exposed by Patterson (who faked her death to escape capture) and Zapata through a connectedness at the New York Post (Reade's ex-fiancé, Megan Butani). The blackmail material she held confronting various connections is lost, cheers to the actions of Managing director Matthew Weitz and analyst Afreen Iqbal. Now exonerated, the team corners her when she tries to flee the state. She commits suicide in a fail-prophylactic manner calculated to push button her final programme forward. She appears in the series finale. as a hallucination, a upshot of Jane's Zippo poisoning.

Recurring [edit]

Johnny Whitworth as Markos (seasons 1 & 5), a mysterious human connected to Jane'due south past. He was killed by an unknown sniper – afterward revealed to be Oscar – in Jane's safe house. He was a fellow member of Sandstorm, but grew disenchanted with their treatment of Jane. He reappears equally a hallucination caused by Jane's ZIP poisoning in the series finale.
Jordana Spiro as Sarah Weller (seasons 1 & v), Kurt'southward sister. Sarah tries to heal Weller'southward lingering emotional trauma from Taylor Shaw's disappearance, and to repair the cleaved human relationship between Kurt and their terminally ill father. She was in dear with Kurt'due south co-worker and friend, Edgar Reade, until he broke upwards with her to protect her and her son. She later moves to Portland, Oregon, with her son. She returns in the series finale, having dinner with the team and their family and friends.
Logan Schuyler Smith every bit Sawyer (seasons ane & v), Sarah's son and Kurt's nephew. He moves to Portland, Oregon, with his female parent shortly after her breakup with Reade, but he appears in the series finale, having dinner with the squad and their family and friends.
Michael Gaston as Thomas "Tom" Carter (seasons 1 & 5), CIA deputy director, who is connected, with Mayfair, to the clandestine Operation: Daylight. He is very interested in Jane because he is afraid that her tattoos could reveal Daylight's existence. He is killed by Oscar, while trying to interrogate Jane.^[9] He reappears equally a hallucination because of Jane'southward ZIP poisoning in the serial finale.
Joe Dinicol as David Wagner (seasons 1, 3, & 5), Patterson's boyfriend. Patterson bankrupt up with him after being reprimanded for sharing the tattoos with David. He is killed past a Russian agent for investigating an surreptitious spy band, but reappears in Patterson'due south coma dream in season three and as a hallucination acquired by Jane's Nada poisoning in the series finale. His character was modeled after David Kwong, who works as a puzzle consultant for the bear witness.^[10]
Jay O. Sanders as Beak Weller (seasons 1 & v), Kurt and Sarah'southward father. He was defendant of kidnapping and killing Taylor Shaw because he lied about his alibi. This destroyed his life and marriage and ended his relationship with his son. He is terminally sick with lung cancer. His admission that he attempted suicide the night of Taylor's disappearance, finally earns back Kurt'due south trust. However, he confirms on his deathbed that he really did kill Taylor Shaw, although his words imply that it was adventitious. He reappears in season 5 as a hallucination of Weller'south.
François Arnaud every bit Oscar (seasons i & 5), a mysterious man connected to Jane's past. Fractional flashbacks reveal that Oscar is Jane's ex-swain. They planned to marry, but Jane broke off the date.^[xi] Although he appears to exist Jane's ally confronting some of the radical elements of Sandstorm, the terrorist organization that gave Jane her tattoos, he lied to her most her by identity as Taylor Shaw, and seemingly harmless tests were actually part of a circuitous scheme to frame Mayfair for murder and corruption. When he attempts to inject Jane with a new dose of drugs to erase her memory again, Jane tries to arrest him. She accidentally stabs him in the heart with a scythe when they fight in a burning barn. He reappears in season 5 in hallucinations, seen past Weller and Jane.
Lou Diamond Phillips equally Saúl Guerrero (seasons 1 & 5), a notorious gang leader and Number Ii on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, he is connected to Operation: Daylight, serving as the "official" source of the information Mayfair gained from the programme. He was killed on Tom Carter'southward orders while in prison. He later reappears as a hallucination as a upshot of Jane's Zip poisoning in the series finale.
Trieste Kelly Dunn as Allie Knight, a old FBI agent, at present a U.South. Marshal and FBI WITSEC liaison. She is Kurt's ex-girlfriend; she attempts to restart their relationship. She and Kurt have a daughter, Bethany.
John Hodgman as Jonas Fischer (seasons one & v), a chief inspector in the FBI Role of Professional person Responsibility who maneuvers to replace Mayfair. He is exposed as a Russian asset. Jane kills him when he tries to frame her equally the mole in his place. He reappears in flashbacks and as a hallucination as a result of Jane'south Nada poisoning in the series finale.
Ajay Naidu as Sho Akhtar (seasons 1 & 3–five), an occasional enemy and marry of the team. He is killed by Madeline's team in season five after giving Weller's squad the blueprints to the CIA black site where Rich is being held. He later reappears equally a hallucination as a result of Jane'south ZIP poisoning in the series finale.
Josh Dean equally Boston Arliss Crab, an fine art restorer who is Rich Dotcom's ex-fellow and partner in crime .
Sarita Choudhury as Sofia Varma (seasons i & five), deputy White House political director, who was connected with Mayfair to Operation: Daylight and was Mayfair'due south girlfriend. She was reported to have killed herself, affecting Mayfair deeply. In fact, she faked her expiry and went into hiding, supposedly to escape unknown pursuers. She is really part of the conspiracy backside Jane's tattoos. She participates in a Oscar'due south plot to frame Mayfair for murder. She reappears every bit a hallucination as a event of Jane's ZIP poisoning in the series finale.
Eisa Davis as Donna Hollaran/Alexandra Harrison (season 1), a sales clerk who becomes romantically involved with Mayfair. She is stabbed to decease in her hotel room as a warning to Mayfair to stay away from Carter'south death. The investigation that follows implicates Mayfair equally the killer–according to show Oscar manipulated Jane into planting in Mayfair's office–and reveals that Alexandra is a disgraced individual-investigator-turned-fixer who is nether federal investigation.
Aaron Abrams as Matthew Weitz, an ambitious banana U.S. attorney secretly investigating FBI corruption and specifically targeting Mayfair on the grounds of misconduct, with Zapata'southward reluctant cooperation. He subsequently becomes a congressman, and in flavor 4, he is appointed to succeed Eleanor Hirst as director of the FBI, becoming the 3rd director in the series. In season 5, afterward Madeline Burke takes over federal law enforcement and frames the squad for corruption, terrorism, and treason, he works with analysts Briana Ross and Afreen Iqbal in a hush-hush brotherhood to clear the squad and accept her downwardly. Later Madeline murders Briana, he is forced to scale back his efforts, but eventually he and Afreen are able to destroy the bribery material she holds against her connections. Subsequently the team is captured and Patterson reveals Madeline'south attempt to frame him for her crimes, he flees, but he after returns with loyal agents. They and the team engage in a shootout with the Dabbur Zhan mercenaries in an attempt to retake the FBI. Despite the successful coup, Weitz is critically wounded in the crossfire and dies in the FBI headquarters. He afterward reappears as a hallucination as a result of Jane's Zero poisoning in the series finale.
Dylan Bakery as Sam Pellington (seasons 1–3 & five), the initial managing director of the FBI in the series. He is killed past Shepherd during Sandstorm's assail on the FBI in season 2, and reappears in Patterson's coma dream in season iii and as a hallucination as a result of Jane's ZIP poisoning in the series finale.
Tom Lipinski as Cade (seasons 1–3 & 5), an openly gay operative of Sandstorm. He betrays the arrangement in season two after realizing that Shepherd has become the very thing she despises, and becomes Nas Kamal's informant. After co-operating with the FBI, Cade is granted immunity and disappears for several years, eventually setting down with a husband and an adopted son. He is captured by the CIA and put into a blackness site, but later escapes after the aeroplane transporting him crashes. Despite his cooperation, the FBI is unable to proceed him from the CIA. Upon learning this, Cade takes Zapata hostage and goads Jane into killing him, to spare himself from anymore imprisonment or torture. He reappears as a hallucination as a result of Jane's Nothing poisoning in the series finale.
Chad Donella equally Jake Keaton (seasons ii–5), deputy director of the CIA, who succeeds Tom Carter later the latter's death. He tortured Jane for data after the FBI turned her over to the CIA. He occasionally crosses paths with Weller'south team during covert missions. He becomes more sympathetic to their calendar after they assist him to save his daughter. In season three, he becomes Zapata's superior when she joins the CIA. In season four, he is left in a coma on life back up afterward an attack that also reveals that he was acting as Zapata's handler during an undercover assignment. That consignment involved her supposedly being fired from the CIA. He is promoted and reassigned against his volition at the end of the flavour as part of Madeline Burke's programme to take control of the FBI. During flavor 5, Keaton allies with Alison Knight and Boston Arliss Crab to help the team prove their innocence, but he is forced to betray them after Madeline threatens his family. He tries to plow on Madeline when she comes to arrest Zapata, but to be shot downwardly and killed by her men. He reappears equally a hallucination every bit a result of Jane's Null poisoning in the series finale.
Jonathan Patrick Moore as Oliver Kind (seasons 2 & five), a water conservation specialist who befriended Jane.^[12] They briefly date during season 2 until he breaks up with her afterward the two become involved in a kidnapping-extortion plot linked to his father. He is unable to deal with her loftier octane lifestyle. He reappears as a hallucination as a result of Jane's ZIP poisoning in the serial finale.
Jefferson White as Parker Lewis (seasons ii & 5), a loyal Sandstorm operative. Later Jane and Roman beguile the organization and leave, he takes over as Shepherd's 2nd-in-command until his death in a shootout with the FBI near the stop of season ii. He later reappears as a hallucination as a issue of Jane's ZIP poisoning in the series finale.
Li Jun Li every bit Karen Dominicus (season 2), a psychiatrist whom Nas Kamal brought in to evaluate Roman. Later on Borden's exposure as a Sandstorm mole, she causeless his role equally psychiatric counselor for Weller'southward squad, for a time.
Mary Stuart Masterson as Eleanor Hirst (seasons ii–5), the 2nd managing director of the FBI in the series and Pellington'due south successor. Though she at commencement formed a friendship with Jane, Weller, and the team and helped take downwards Sandstorm at the end of season ii (and fifty-fifty attended Jane and Weller'due south wedding), she was somewhen revealed to be decadent in season iii later killing beau amanuensis Stuart to encompass up her connections to decadent business organization magnate Hank Crawford. After an attempt to frame the team for her crimes, she was ultimately exposed and arrested. Following her arrest, she reappears on two divide occasions, beingness questioned by the team virtually her ties to the tattoos, and afterwards as a hallucination resulting from Jane's Zip poisoning in the series finale.
Amy Margaret Wilson equally Briana Ross (seasons 2–5), an FBI annotator who frequently works with Weller's squad. She idolizes them. Near the end of flavour 4, she is forced to betray the team to protect her parents, when Dominic Masters blackmails her. In season 5, she is recruited by Managing director Matthew Weitz and young man annotator Afreen Iqbal to help bring Madeline Shush downwards, but Madeline presently murders her in cold blood every bit a warning to discourage whatever further attempts to cross her. She afterwards reappears every bit a hallucination caused by Jane's ZIP poisoning in the series finale.
Ami Sheth as Afreen Iqbal (seasons 3–5), an FBI analyst who oftentimes works with Weller'southward team. In season v, after Madeline Burke frames the squad and takes over the FBI, she works with Manager Matthew Weitz and boyfriend analyst Briana Ross in a hugger-mugger alliance confronting Madeline. The alliance falters for a while after Madeline murders Briana, simply the two are eventually able to find and erase all of Madeline's bribery material, which later proves useful when her crimes are finally exposed to the public.
Heather Burns as Kathy Gustafson (seasons three–5), a hacker who previously worked with Patterson and Rich during the time between seasons 2 and three as the trio known every bit the "Three Bullheaded Mice". At first, she tries to strength the trio back together to avenge her brother, simply she fails and is imprisoned. In season 4, she is paroled, and presently gets engaged to Madeline Burke'south right-manus man, Dominic Masters, who uses her to execute Project: Helios. She later returns in the penultimate episode of the series and helps the team end Madeline and the Dabbur Zhan'southward main program. She appears every bit a hallucination equally a result of Jane'due south ZIP poisoning in the series finale.
Jordan Johnson-Hinds as Stuart (seasons three–5), a young, tech-savvy amanuensis who replaces Patterson after she leaves the FBI between seasons 2 and three. He remains with the team post-obit her return in season 3, but he is presently murdered by Director Eleanor Hirst afterwards he unwittingly unearths a connection between her and i of Jane'south new tattoos. He reappears in flashbacks in season 4 and every bit a hallucination every bit a effect of Jane's ZIP poisoning in the series finale.
Tori Anderson as Blake Crawford (seasons 3–v), a wealthy socialite, girl of Hank Crawford, whom Roman befriends and with whom he becomes romantically involved. At the terminate of season 3, she fatally shoots Roman after learning his true identity from Zapata and inherits her father's company HCI Global afterward his death. Withal, at the starting time of season four, she is fatally poisoned by Madeline Burke, i of the visitor shareholders, along with the rest of the visitor's board. She later reappears every bit a hallucination as a event of Jane'south Cipher poisoning in the serial finale, where she and Roman are married.
Kristina Reyes as Avery Drabkin (seasons 3 & 5), Jane's daughter, the result of a teenage pregnancy, who was taken from her by Shepherd in order to keep Remi focused on Sandstorm and their mission. After profitable the team in taking down Crawford – who was responsible for the death of her adopted father – she leaves for Brown Academy between seasons 3 and 4. She returns in the series finale, having dinner with her mother and many family and friends.
David Morse every bit Hank Crawford (seasons 3 & v), Blake Crawford's male parent, a powerful businessman and CEO of HCI Global, head of a criminal conspiracy. He plans to take control of diverse major war machine resources and so that he can set himself upward equally a new dictator. Jane kills him at the terminate of flavour iii. He reappears as a hallucination as a upshot of Jane's Zilch poisoning in the series finale.
Pecker Nye as a fictional version of himself (seasons 3–5) who is Patterson'south father.
Reshma Shetty equally Megan Butani (seasons three & 5), an investigative journalist and Reade's fiancée. She has lived in the U.South. all her life, but she is technically an illegal immigrant because her parents entered the state illegally when she was an infant. When Reade learns of her situation, he attempts to apply his connections to facilitate her becoming a denizen, but they eventually interruption upwardly near the stop of flavor 3 She concludes that he has unresolved issues regarding his old feelings for Zapata. She besides decides to publish her true story so that information technology will come up out on her own terms. She returns in season five and, thanks to Patterson and Zapata, she publishes a story filled with testify that exposes Madeline Burke's numerous crimes to the public.
Chaske Spencer equally Dominic Masters (season 4–5), Madeline Burke'due south right-manus homo after she takes over HCI Global. He is killed at the finish of season 4 past Jane and Weller, but later on he puts Madeline'southward programme, Project: Helios, into consequence. He reappears as a hallucination as a result of Jane'due south Cypher poisoning in the series finale.
Britne Oldford every bit Claudia Murphy (seasons 4–5), a deep-cover MI6 agent sent hush-hush to dismantle HCI Global. After meeting and teaming upwards with Zapata, the 2 fake her expiry to enable her to render to England. She later returns to New York to meet up with Zapata and give more than information, but she is murdered by Madeline Shush'due south henchmen before the meeting can have place. She reappears as a hallucination equally a outcome of Jane's ZIP poisoning in the serial finale.
Raoul Bhaneja as Richard Shirley (seasons 4–5), Madeline Shush's lawyer, who is complicit in her schemes. In late season five, afterward Madeline's crimes are exposed and the bribery cloth against their connections is lost, he attempts to get to the Dabbur Zhan for help. He is quickly betrayed and killed by Ivy Sands. He reappears equally a hallucination as a issue of Jane's ZIP poisoning in the series finale.
David Clayton Rogers equally Water ice Cream (seasons four–5), an Icelandic fixer to whom the team turns when they need to hibernate subsequently existence framed as terrorists by Madeline Burke. After the team goes into hiding following the drone strike, he tracks them downwardly and forces them to carry out a heist and pay off their debt. He threatens to sell them out to Madeline. He reappears every bit a hallucination as a consequence of Jane's Zip poisoning in the series finale.
Julee Cerda as Ivy Sands (season five), a member of the Dabbur Zhan terrorist group and the leader of a squad of mercenaries that Madeline hires to track downwardly Weller's team in season 5. Following Madeline's death, Ivy continues to pursue their program: to detonate ZIP bombs in major cities worldwide. When that fails, she tries to detonate one in Times Square, but is foiled and arrested, condign the last arrest the team makes earlier they are dismissed from the FBI.
Tracie Thoms as Arla Grigoryan (season v), interim director of the FBI. Following the deaths of Matthew Weitz and Madeline Shush, and the collapse of the latter'southward new power structure, she is appointed to succeed Madeline, becoming the fourth & final director of the FBI in the serial. She allows Weller'southward team to take the pb on capturing Ivy Sands and stopping her plans. She manages to get them immunity deals for the crimes for which they were framed, only on condition that they not render to the FBI or work for whatever other authorities agency.

Production [edit]

Development [edit]

On Jan 23, 2015, a pilot was ordered past NBC.^[13] The airplane pilot was written by Martin Gero, who was besides fix to serve as executive producer aslope Greg Berlanti. On February 12, 2015, it was reported that Marker Pellington would direct the pilot episode.^[fourteen]

On May 1, 2015, NBC gave the production a series society.^[xv] Information technology was besides reported that Berlanti Productions, Quinn's House and Warner Bros. Television would serve as additional production companies. A few days later on, information technology was appear that the serial would premiere in the fourth quarter of 2015.^[16] On July 11, 2015, the premiere date was set up for September 21, 2015.^[17] A back nine order was given on October ix, 2015, bringing the first flavor to a total of 22 episodes, along with an order for an boosted episode, bringing the showtime-season episode count to 23.^[18] ^[nineteen] On November 9, 2015, it was announced that the serial had been renewed for a second season.^[xx] The second flavour premiered on September 14, 2016.^[21] On May 10, 2017, the evidence was renewed for a 3rd flavour, which premiered on Oct 27, 2017.^[22] On May 10, 2018, NBC renewed the series for a 4th season that premiered on October 12, 2018.^[23] ^[24] ^[25] On May 10, 2019, NBC renewed the series for a fifth and terminal season^[2] of 11 episodes.^[26] The flavour was fix to air in mid-2020,^[27] just due to the airing of Parks and Recreation'due south special A Parks and Recreation Special, information technology instead premiered on May vii, 2020.^[28]

Casting [edit]

In Feb 2015, it was announced that Jaimie Alexander, Sullivan Stapleton, Rob Brown, Audrey Esparza and Ukweli Roach had been bandage in lead roles in the pilot.^[29] ^[30] ^[31] Later in 2015, it was reported that Ashley Johnson and Michael Gaston had joined the master cast.^[32] ^[33] On June 22, 2016, Archie Panjabi joined the cast^[34] and the side by side day, both Luke Mitchell and Michelle Hurd joined as series regulars for the 2d season.^[35] In mid-2018, Ennis Esmer, who had recurred during the showtime three seasons, was upgraded to regular status for the fourth,^[36] and in the 5th flavor, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, later recurring heavily in the previous flavor, was upgraded to a series regular.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Broadcast [edit]

In Commonwealth of australia, the series was caused by the Seven Network^[37] and premiered on October 28, 2015.^[38] In Canada, CTV has caused the broadcasting rights for the series.^[39] Netflix acquired the streaming rights to Blindspot in Canada in June 2021 and Australia on September i, 2021.^[xl] In the Britain, it premiered on Heaven Living on November 24, 2015.^[41]

Reception [edit]

Ratings [edit]

Critical response [edit]

Blindspot has received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the first season has a rating of 68%, based on 63 reviews, with an average rating of 6.35/10. The site's disquisitional consensus reads, "Blindspot is elevated by an intriguing mystery and enough strong action to propel near viewers into a necessary suspension of disbelief."^[56] On Metacritic, the series has a score of 65 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[57]

Home video [edit]

The commencement season of Blindspot was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 2, 2016 in Region 1. It contains all 23 episodes, as well equally boosted materials.^[58] The second season was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 8, 2017.^[59] The third season was released on DVD, while the Warner Archive Collection released a manufacture-on-need Blu-ray version.^[60] Warner Annal Collection released the 4th season on DVD and Blu-ray as industry-on-need titles on November 26, 2019.^[61]

Title	Ep #	Discs	Region 1/A	Region 2/B	Region iv/B	Special features
Blindspot: The Complete Commencement Season	23	5	August 2, 2016	N/A	August 31, 2016	Backside the scenes featurettes Tattooed clues xix deleted scenes The 2015 Comic-Con panel Spring and gag reel "Pilot" audio commentary
Blindspot: The Complete Second Flavor	22	5	August viii, 2017^[59]	N/A	August 23, 2017	Featurettes Deleted scenes
Blindspot: The Complete Third Season	22	iv	August 21, 2018^[60]	N/A	August 20, 2018	Deleted scenes Gag reel Agent Zapata featurette
Blindspot: The Consummate Fourth Flavor	22	four	November 26, 2019^[62]	Due north/A	November 27, 2019^{[note 1]} ^[61]	None
Blindspot: The Consummate Fifth and Final Season	11	3	17 November 2020	North/A	18 November 2020	None

Notes [edit]

^ No Blu-Ray Release

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External links [edit]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindspot_%28TV_series%29