This instalment is quite the dull and unimaginative episode which doesn't really further the greater story or character development in any way. It's little more than a police procedural with no twists, no turns, no suspense, no Blacklist!
But aside from that, there's one really irritating thing about this episode, which led me to giving it such a poor rating: bad sound production. This is a high budget show; there's no excuse for shoddy phone-it-in production! There's more than one point where there's massively obvious post-production ADR work where they've changed the script, changed some lines. Visually it's undetectable, so credit there to the editors, but aurally it's an abomination - the sound is not matched at all; the volume changes, the echo level changes, it's blatantly obvious the new lines were recorded later and just pasted in without a competent sound engineer's supervision. I wasn't even looking for it but it leapt out at me. It's like they don't even care anymore.
But aside from that, there's one really irritating thing about this episode, which led me to giving it such a poor rating: bad sound production. This is a high budget show; there's no excuse for shoddy phone-it-in production! There's more than one point where there's massively obvious post-production ADR work where they've changed the script, changed some lines. Visually it's undetectable, so credit there to the editors, but aurally it's an abomination - the sound is not matched at all; the volume changes, the echo level changes, it's blatantly obvious the new lines were recorded later and just pasted in without a competent sound engineer's supervision. I wasn't even looking for it but it leapt out at me. It's like they don't even care anymore.