Blindspot is a great series that suffers from a pacing issue

This post is about TV series Blindspot (2015) and contains minor spoilers. If you wanna experience it on your own, go watch all five seasons and come back. I’ll wait.

I bought a subscription service to have unlimited access to the Olympic Games. When the games ended, I still had a couple of weeks left so I decided to pick up Blindspot and binge it through.

Blindspot is a series about a team at FBI. Many people recognize it from Jaimie Alexandre’s (also known as Sif from Thor/MCU) performance as Jane Doe but the reason I picked it up and the real superstar of the show is Ashley Johnson (of Critical Role fame) who plays the lab/computer specialist Patterson. Not only does Johnson do an absolute banger of a performance, I love how her character was an active member of the field team and not a stereotypical, socially awkward nerd who stays in the lab.

In a nutshell, the series is about following clues left on Jane Doe’s body to catch criminals and corrupt people. It’s an mostly episodic show with a very active overarching storyline. It’s a really really good show with a great cast and storylines.

Throughout its 5 seasons, it succeeds very well in one of the aspects that most similar series fail: it manages to combine individual storylines into one in a way that doesn’t feel like there’s a hard drop in between.

It does suffer from one problem in my opinion though: it has a serious pacing issue.

There were multiple setups that I was excited about that were then rushed through in just couple of episodes. The series had 100 episodes so there was plenty of time to build things up (and often it did) instead of rushing them.

A rushed setup makes the stakes feel lesser compared to what they should and could be. Especially in a series that’s all about this massive conspiracy.

Despite those issues, the series was still one of the best in its genre and it has an actual, satisfying ending. It doesn’t cut in the middle thanks to budget cuts or because creative ran out of ideas. Pretty much every open question gets answered and the ending feels good.