When Does The Blacklist Season 11 Come Out? Is It Renewed?
“Never trust a criminal... Until you have to.”
The Blacklist ended after Season 10.
IMDb
7.9/10
Seasons
10
Episodes
218

Predictive Logic Analysis
The Blacklist has concluded its run. Production records list the series as ended, meaning the story has been brought to a planned close rather than left open. Barring a revival, there is no Season 11 in development.
What is The Blacklist about?
James Spader is the reason to watch The Blacklist, and also, eventually, the reason the show starts to feel like a trap. He plays Raymond Reddington as a man who treats every room like a stage and every conversation like a performance he has already rehearsed, and for several seasons that is genuinely entertaining. The premise, a charming master criminal who surrenders to the FBI and offers to help them hunt down his old associates, gives Spader an endless string of monologues, disguises, and moral evasions to work with. He is very good at all of it.
The tone is slick procedural with a mythology problem. Each episode delivers a new name from the Blacklist, a villain of the week with some exotic specialty, while the larger mystery of who Reddington really is and what he wants from profiler Elizabeth Keen slowly accumulates around the edges. That central mystery is where the show is both most interesting and most dishonest with its audience. The writers string it out for years, reveal things and then un-reveal them, and by the middle seasons the mythology has folded in on itself so many times that following it feels more like obligation than curiosity.
Critics and audiences responded warmly at the start, and the ratings were strong enough to keep NBC renewing it well past the point where most dramas would have wound down. The IMDb score of 7.9 reflects a show that people genuinely liked even as they complained about it. The death of Megan Boone's character Elizabeth Keen ahead of season nine created a real problem the show never solved, since the whole architecture of Reddington's obsessive secrecy was built around her.
Ten seasons is a long time, and The Blacklist earns its place alongside shows like Person of Interest or Alias, procedurals that used a strong central relationship to dress up a pulpier genre engine. Spader never phones it in, even when the scripts give him little to work with, and watching him deliver an absurdist anecdote about tea or arms dealing while the plot collapses around him has its own strange pleasure.
Created by Jon Bokenkamp
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Is The Blacklist renewed or cancelled?
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The series is listed as ended
Why did The Blacklist end?
Ten seasons and 218 episodes is a long run by any measure, and The Blacklist essentially ran until the creative and commercial logic for continuing it simply ran out. The show debuted in 2013 as one of NBC's bigger hits, built around James Spader's Raymond Reddington, a character unusual enough to carry almost anything. For the first few seasons it worked well. But like a lot of mythology-heavy procedurals, it struggled to sustain the central mystery, and the question of who Reddington really was to Megan Boone's Liz Keen became increasingly convoluted. When Boone departed after season 8, the show lost its structural anchor, and NBC and the producers essentially had to reinvent it on the fly.
The final stretch of the show's life was complicated by that departure. Ratings had been declining steadily for years, which is not unusual for a network drama in its eighth, ninth, or tenth year, but the loss of Boone accelerated the sense that the show was running on fumes. NBC renewed it for a tenth and final season, which is a meaningful distinction: this was not a cancellation but a negotiated conclusion. The network and producers agreed to give the show a proper ending rather than pull the plug abruptly.
Whether that ending satisfied longtime viewers is another question, and the general consensus seemed to be that the show had overstayed its welcome by at least a couple of seasons. But getting to ten seasons on a broadcast network is genuinely rare, and the show's longevity says something about how much goodwill Spader's performance generated. The Blacklist ended because it had reached a natural, if somewhat exhausted, stopping point.
The Blacklist Season 11 Release Date
No new season is expected. The Blacklist has ended, so there is no upcoming release to anticipate unless a revival is announced.
Best & worst episodes
The Blacklist seasons
Season 12013 · 22 ep
- 1. Pilot2013-09-23 · ★ 8.0
- 2. The Freelancer2013-09-30 · ★ 7.8
- 3. Wujing2013-10-07 · ★ 7.7
- 4. The Stewmaker2013-10-14 · ★ 7.9
- 5. The Courier2013-10-21 · ★ 7.8
- 6. Gina Zanetakos2013-10-28 · ★ 7.7
- 7. Frederick Barnes2013-11-04 · ★ 7.7
- 8. General Ludd2013-11-11 · ★ 7.8
- 9. Anslo Garrick (1)2013-11-25 · ★ 8.2
- 10. Anslo Garrick (2)2013-12-02 · ★ 8.2
- 11. The Good Samaritan2014-01-13 · ★ 8.0
- 12. The Alchemist2014-01-20 · ★ 7.8
- 13. The Cyprus Agency2014-01-27 · ★ 7.9
- 14. Madeline Pratt2014-02-24 · ★ 7.7
- 15. The Judge2014-03-03 · ★ 7.9
- 16. Mako Tanida2014-03-17 · ★ 7.9
- 17. Ivan2014-03-24 · ★ 8.0
- 18. Milton Bobbit2014-03-31 · ★ 7.9
- 19. The Pavlovich Brothers2014-04-21 · ★ 8.0
- 20. The Kingmaker2014-04-28 · ★ 7.8
- 21. Berlin (1)2014-05-05 · ★ 8.0
- 22. Berlin: Conclusion (2)2014-05-12 · ★ 8.2
Season 22014 · 22 ep
- 1. Lord Baltimore2014-09-22 · ★ 7.9
- 2. Monarch Douglas Bank2014-09-29 · ★ 7.8
- 3. Dr. James Covington2014-10-06 · ★ 7.7
- 4. Dr. Linus Creel2014-10-13 · ★ 7.7
- 5. The Front2014-10-20 · ★ 7.7
- 6. The Mombasa Cartel2014-10-27 · ★ 7.8
- 7. The Scimitar2014-11-03 · ★ 7.9
- 8. The Decembrist2014-11-10 · ★ 7.9
- 9. Luther Braxton (1)2015-02-01 · ★ 8.0
- 10. Luther Braxton: Conclusion (2)2015-02-05 · ★ 8.0
- 11. Ruslan Denisov2015-02-12 · ★ 7.6
- 12. The Kenyon Family2015-02-19 · ★ 7.6
- 13. The Deer Hunter2015-02-26 · ★ 7.6
- 14. T. Earl King VI2015-03-05 · ★ 7.8
- 15. The Major2015-03-12 · ★ 7.5
- 16. Tom Keen2015-03-19 · ★ 7.8
- 17. The Longevity Initiative2015-03-26 · ★ 7.6
- 18. Vanessa Cruz2015-04-02 · ★ 7.8
- 19. Leonard Caul2015-04-23 · ★ 8.0
- 20. Quon Zhang2015-04-30 · ★ 7.6
- 21. Karakurt2015-05-07 · ★ 8.0
- 22. Tom Connolly2015-05-14 · ★ 8.3
Season 32015 · 23 ep
- 1. The Troll Farmer2015-10-01 · ★ 8.0
- 2. Marvin Gerard2015-10-08 · ★ 8.0
- 3. Eli Matchett2015-10-15 · ★ 7.8
- 4. The Djinn2015-10-22 · ★ 7.8
- 5. Arioch Cain2015-10-29 · ★ 7.9
- 6. Sir Crispin Crandall2015-11-05 · ★ 8.0
- 7. Zal Bin Hasaan2015-11-12 · ★ 7.8
- 8. Kings of the Highway2015-11-19 · ★ 7.9
- 9. The Director (1)2016-01-07 · ★ 8.2
- 10. The Director: Conclusion (2)2016-01-14 · ★ 8.3
- 11. Mr. Gregory Devry2016-01-21 · ★ 7.9
- 12. The Vehm2016-01-28 · ★ 7.6
- 13. Alistair Pitt2016-02-04 · ★ 7.7
- 14. Lady Ambrosia2016-02-11 · ★ 7.7
- 15. Drexel2016-02-18 · ★ 7.7
- 16. The Caretaker2016-02-25 · ★ 7.6
- 17. Mr. Solomon (1)2016-04-07 · ★ 7.8
- 18. Mr. Solomon: Conclusion (2)2016-04-14 · ★ 8.0
- 19. Cape May2016-04-21 · ★ 7.3
- 20. The Artax Network2016-04-28 · ★ 7.7
- 21. Susan Hargrave2016-05-05 · ★ 7.8
- 22. Alexander Kirk (1)2016-05-12 · ★ 7.9
- 23. Alexander Kirk: Conclusion (2)2016-05-19 · ★ 8.2
Season 42016 · 22 ep
- 1. Esteban2016-09-22 · ★ 7.8
- 2. Mato2016-09-29 · ★ 7.8
- 3. Miles McGrath2016-10-06 · ★ 7.8
- 4. Gaia2016-10-13 · ★ 7.6
- 5. The Lindquist Concern2016-10-20 · ★ 7.7
- 6. The Thrushes2016-10-27 · ★ 7.8
- 7. Dr. Adrian Shaw (1)2016-11-03 · ★ 7.8
- 8. Dr. Adrian Shaw: Conclusion (2)2016-11-10 · ★ 7.9
- 9. Lipet's Seafood Company2017-01-05 · ★ 7.7
- 10. The Forecaster2017-01-12 · ★ 7.7
- 11. The Harem2017-01-19 · ★ 7.6
- 12. Natalie Luca2017-02-02 · ★ 7.7
- 13. Isabella Stone2017-02-09 · ★ 7.7
- 14. The Architect2017-02-16 · ★ 7.7
- 15. The Apothecary2017-02-23 · ★ 7.9
- 16. Dembe Zuma2017-04-20 · ★ 8.0
- 17. Requiem2017-04-20 · ★ 8.1
- 18. Philomena2017-04-27 · ★ 7.8
- 19. Dr. Bogdan Krilov2017-05-04 · ★ 7.7
- 20. The Debt Collector2017-05-11 · ★ 7.9
- 21. Mr. Kaplan (1)2017-05-18 · ★ 8.0
- 22. Mr. Kaplan: Conclusion (2)2017-05-18 · ★ 8.2
Season 52017 · 22 ep
- 1. Smokey Putnum2017-09-27 · ★ 7.7
- 2. Greyson Blaise2017-10-04 · ★ 7.8
- 3. Miss Rebecca Thrall2017-10-11 · ★ 7.7
- 4. The Endling2017-10-18 · ★ 7.7
- 5. Ilyas Surkov2017-10-25 · ★ 7.7
- 6. The Travel Agency2017-11-01 · ★ 7.6
- 7. The Kilgannon Corporation2017-11-08 · ★ 7.8
- 8. Ian Garvey2017-11-15 · ★ 8.1
- 9. Ruin2018-01-03 · ★ 7.8
- 10. The Informant2018-01-10 · ★ 7.7
- 11. Abraham Stern2018-01-17 · ★ 7.8
- 12. The Cook2018-01-31 · ★ 7.7
- 13. The Invisible Hand2018-02-07 · ★ 7.8
- 14. Mr. Raleigh Sinclair III2018-02-28 · ★ 7.7
- 15. Pattie Sue Edwards2018-03-07 · ★ 7.8
- 16. The Capricorn Killer2018-03-14 · ★ 7.8
- 17. Anna-Gracia Duerte2018-04-04 · ★ 7.7
- 18. Zarak Mosadek2018-04-11 · ★ 7.8
- 19. Ian Garvey: Conclusion2018-04-25 · ★ 7.9
- 20. Nicholas T. Moore2018-05-02 · ★ 7.7
- 21. Lawrence Dane Devlin2018-05-09 · ★ 7.7
- 22. Sutton Ross2018-05-16 · ★ 8.1
Season 62019 · 22 ep
- 1. Dr. Hans Koehler2019-01-03 · ★ 7.7
- 2. The Corsican2019-01-04 · ★ 7.8
- 3. The Pharmacist2019-01-11 · ★ 7.8
- 4. The Pawnbrokers2019-01-18 · ★ 7.8
- 5. Alter Ego2019-02-01 · ★ 7.8
- 6. The Ethicist2019-02-08 · ★ 7.6
- 7. General Shiro2019-02-15 · ★ 7.6
- 8. Marko Jankowics2019-02-22 · ★ 7.7
- 9. Minister D2019-02-22 · ★ 7.9
- 10. The Cryptobanker2019-03-08 · ★ 7.8
- 11. Bastien Moreau (1)2019-03-15 · ★ 7.9
- 12. Bastien Moreau: Conclusion (2)2019-03-22 · ★ 7.9
- 13. Robert Vesco2019-03-29 · ★ 7.7
- 14. The Osterman Umbrella Company2019-03-29 · ★ 7.9
- 15. Olivia Olson2019-04-05 · ★ 7.8
- 16. Lady Luck2019-04-12 · ★ 7.7
- 17. The Third Estate2019-04-19 · ★ 7.7
- 18. The Brockton College Killer2019-04-26 · ★ 7.8
- 19. Rassvet2019-04-26 · ★ 8.0
- 20. Guillermo Rizal2019-05-03 · ★ 7.7
- 21. Anna McMahon2019-05-10 · ★ 8.0
- 22. Robert Diaz2019-05-17 · ★ 8.0
Season 72019 · 19 ep
- 1. Louis T. Steinhil (1)2019-10-04 · ★ 7.8
- 2. Louis T. Steinhil: Conclusion (2)2019-10-11 · ★ 7.8
- 3. Les Fleurs du Mal2019-10-18 · ★ 7.7
- 4. Kuwait2019-10-25 · ★ 7.6
- 5. Norman Devane2019-11-01 · ★ 7.6
- 6. Dr. Lewis Powell2019-11-08 · ★ 7.7
- 7. Hannah Hayes2019-11-15 · ★ 7.7
- 8. The Hawaladar2019-11-22 · ★ 7.7
- 9. Orion Relocation Services2019-12-06 · ★ 7.9
- 10. Katarina Rostova2019-12-13 · ★ 7.9
- 11. Victoria Fenberg2020-03-20 · ★ 7.6
- 12. Cornelius Ruck2020-03-27 · ★ 7.6
- 13. Newton Purcell2020-04-03 · ★ 7.6
- 14. Twamie Ullulaq2020-04-10 · ★ 7.6
- 15. Gordon Kemp2020-04-17 · ★ 7.7
- 16. Nyle Hatcher2020-04-24 · ★ 7.7
- 17. Brothers2020-05-01 · ★ 7.5
- 18. Roy Cain2020-05-08 · ★ 7.7
- 19. The Kazanjian Brothers2020-05-15 · ★ 7.3
Season 82020 · 22 ep
- 1. Roanoke2020-11-13 · ★ 7.4
- 2. Katarina Rostova: Conclusion2020-11-20 · ★ 7.6
- 3. 16 Ounces2021-01-22 · ★ 7.6
- 4. Elizabeth Keen2021-01-29 · ★ 7.5
- 5. The Fribourg Confidence2021-02-05 · ★ 7.5
- 6. The Wellstone Agency2021-02-12 · ★ 7.8
- 7. Chemical Mary2021-02-19 · ★ 7.7
- 8. Ogden Greeley2021-02-26 · ★ 7.7
- 9. The Cyranoid2021-03-05 · ★ 7.6
- 10. Dr. Laken Perillos2021-03-12 · ★ 7.6
- 11. Captain Kidd2021-03-26 · ★ 7.5
- 12. Rakitin2021-04-02 · ★ 7.7
- 13. Anne2021-04-16 · ★ 7.8
- 14. Misère2021-04-23 · ★ 7.4
- 15. The Russian Knot2021-04-30 · ★ 7.6
- 16. Nicholas Obenrader2021-05-07 · ★ 7.6
- 17. Ivan Stepanov2021-05-14 · ★ 7.9
- 18. The Protean2021-05-21 · ★ 7.7
- 19. Balthazar "Bino" Baker2021-05-28 · ★ 7.7
- 20. Godwin Page2021-06-04 · ★ 7.9
- 21. Nachalo2021-06-16 · ★ 7.8
- 22. Konets2021-06-23 · ★ 7.9
Season 92021 · 22 ep
- 1. The Skinner (1)2021-10-21 · ★ 7.5
- 2. The Skinner: Conclusion (2)2021-10-28 · ★ 7.7
- 3. The SPK2021-11-04 · ★ 7.5
- 4. The Avenging Angel2021-11-11 · ★ 7.5
- 5. Benjamin T. Okara2021-11-18 · ★ 7.5
- 6. Dr. Roberta Sand, Ph.D.2021-12-09 · ★ 7.5
- 7. Between Sleep and Awake2022-01-06 · ★ 7.3
- 8. Dr. Razmik Maier2022-01-13 · ★ 7.4
- 9. Boukman Baptiste2022-01-20 · ★ 7.4
- 10. Arcane Wireless2022-02-25 · ★ 7.5
- 11. The Conglomerate2022-03-04 · ★ 7.5
- 12. The Chairman2022-03-18 · ★ 7.5
- 13. Genuine Models, Inc.2022-03-25 · ★ 7.4
- 14. Eva Mason2022-04-01 · ★ 7.5
- 15. Andrew Kennison2022-04-08 · ★ 7.8
- 16. Helen Maghi2022-04-15 · ★ 7.6
- 17. El Conejo2022-04-22 · ★ 7.7
- 18. Laszlo Jankowics2022-04-29 · ★ 7.7
- 19. The Bear Mask2022-05-06 · ★ 7.1
- 20. Caelum Bank2022-05-13 · ★ 7.9
- 21. Marvin Gerard: Conclusion (1)2022-05-20 · ★ 7.8
- 22. Marvin Gerard: Conclusion (2)2022-05-27 · ★ 7.8
Season 102023 · 22 ep
- 1. The Night Owl2023-02-26 · ★ 7.5
- 2. The Whaler2023-03-05 · ★ 7.5
- 3. The Four Guns2023-03-12 · ★ 7.5
- 4. The Hyena2023-03-19 · ★ 7.6
- 5. The Dockery Affair2023-03-26 · ★ 7.5
- 6. Dr. Laken Perillos: Conclusion2023-04-02 · ★ 7.5
- 7. The Freelancer (2)2023-04-09 · ★ 7.5
- 8. The Troll Farmer (2)2023-04-16 · ★ 7.6
- 9. The Troll Farmer (3)2023-04-23 · ★ 7.9
- 10. The Postman2023-04-30 · ★ 7.6
- 11. The Man in the Hat2023-05-07 · ★ 7.7
- 12. Dr. Michael Abani2023-05-14 · ★ 7.4
- 13. The Sicilian Error of Color2023-05-21 · ★ 7.5
- 14. The Nowhere Bride2023-05-28 · ★ 7.6
- 15. The Hat Trick2023-06-01 · ★ 7.5
- 16. Blair Foster2023-06-01 · ★ 7.6
- 17. The Morgana Logistics Corporation2023-06-08 · ★ 7.7
- 18. Wormwood2023-06-22 · ★ 7.6
- 19. Room 4172023-06-29 · ★ 7.7
- 20. Arthur Hudson2023-07-06 · ★ 7.9
- 21. Raymond Reddington (1)2023-07-13 · ★ 8.1
- 22. Raymond Reddington: Good Night (2)2023-07-13 · ★ 7.8
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Siya Malik

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Frequently asked
- When does The Blacklist Season 11 come out?
- The Blacklist ended after Season 10.
- Is The Blacklist renewed or cancelled?
- The Blacklist has ended. Its final season has already aired and no further seasons are expected.
- Why did The Blacklist end?
- Ten seasons and 218 episodes is a long run by any measure, and The Blacklist essentially ran until the creative and commercial logic for continuing it simply ran out. The show debuted in 2013 as one of NBC's bigger hits, built around James Spader's Raymond Reddington, a character unusual enough to carry almost anything. For the first few seasons it worked well. But like a lot of mythology-heavy procedurals, it struggled to sustain the central mystery, and the question of who Reddington really was to Megan Boone's Liz Keen became increasingly convoluted. When Boone departed after season 8, the show lost its structural anchor, and NBC and the producers essentially had to reinvent it on the fly.
- How many seasons of The Blacklist are there?
- The Blacklist has aired 10 seasons so far.
- How many episodes of The Blacklist are there?
- There are 218 episodes of The Blacklist across 10 seasons.
- Who created The Blacklist?
- The Blacklist was created by Jon Bokenkamp.
- Where can I watch The Blacklist?
- The Blacklist is available to stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies and Fandango At Home.
- What is The Blacklist's IMDb rating?
- The Blacklist holds an IMDb rating of 7.9/10 from 298,634 votes.

































