I Watch TV: Blindspot

Blindspot

Jane Doe is found, amnesiac, in a bag in Time Square, covered in tattoos, one of which is the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller. Her tattoos keep bringing up clues to crimes which the FBI team assigned to the case keep having to solve. She, meanwhile, is a badass and is allowed to join the team.

Eventually it turns out it’s part of a plot, or rather several plots, against the United States government. Along the way we dip into a variety of crime underworlds, quite a lot of ridiculous puzzle solving and thanks to the memory-erasing drug zip and efforts to recover memories, several high-concept weird hallucination-style episodes.

Sometimes it leaned into how ridiculous it was, especially when they brought international cyber-criminal and pervert Rich Dot Com onto the team (in one of his early appearances he got Jane to dress up as a 1920s flapper claiming he was getting her into a costume party; it isn't and he escapes by hang glider). Sometimes it commits to the gritty and grimness of the ruthless people and fanatics who will erase memories to facilitate a coup and what that forces on the people who oppose them. It was a little uneven in tone and theme is what I’m saying. And there's a lot of it.

Watch This: For a whole bunch of wacky action, convoluted plots, bizarre puzzle solving and even some feels
Don’t Watch This: It makes no sense and everybody breaks faith with someone at some point it’s a giant nesting knot of betrayals