Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers about “The Blacklist” two-part series finale, “Raymond Reddington.”CNN —Like a lot of things in Hollywood, “The Blacklist” didn’t know when to quit, hanging on for two listless seasons beyond the exit of Megan Boone as Liz Keen in 2021. Yet the show at least knew to provide viewers with a pretty definitive ending, as it did with the two-part series finale that officially bid farewell to James Spader’s oily master criminal Raymond “Red” Reddington. While the precise fate of the task force remained somewhat murky, that seemed like a bit of an afterthought. With Reddington gone, “The Blacklist” had checked off the one name that really mattered, in a show that, other than its usefulness to NBC, should have left Reddington to rest in peace years ago. Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled Dembe's name.

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Persons: “ Raymond Reddington, Megan Boone, Liz Keen, James, Raymond “ Red, Toby Leonard Moore, Dembe, Hisham Tawfiq, Reddington, Bob Dylan, Pat Garrett, Billy the, –, Donald Ressler, Diego Klattenhoff, Spader, Keen Organizations: CNN, FBI, NBC Locations: Hollywood, Spain