'The Blacklist' Adopts Animation To Complete Season Finale

The shows that actually suffered the most owing to the coronavirus pandemic are the ones that were close to finishing their season or series but just missed out.

One if them is the seventh season of The Blacklist. And owing to that, the show turned to animation to help complete the season finale.

The hybrid episode is set to air May 15 and will serve as the season finale for The Blacklist (the series has already been renewed for 2020-21). 

The episode, titled "The Kazanjian Brothers," was midway through filming in New York when production stopped in mid-March due to the pandemic. The show's producers looked for outside-the-box ways to complete the episode and settled on graphic novel-style animation (as shown above) to be incorporated with scenes that had already been filmed. 

Actors recorded dialogue from their homes for the animated scenes, and all animation and editing was done remotely. As The Hollywood Reporter has reported, production on a number of animated series has continued largely uninterrupted during the pandemic as studios and producers have adapted to working remotely.

The Blacklist joins Pop TV's One Day at a Time in extending its season using animation.

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