Go into the Spader-verse with this trailer for the animated Blacklist finale

Photo: Sony Pictures Television
In addition to all the other problems it’s caused—death, economic instability, political strife, etc.—the COVID-19 pandemic turned out to be pretty damned inconvenient for TV production, shutting down a number of series just as they were getting ready to film their spring season finales. Different shows have responded to the lockdowns in different ways, mostly by cutting those seasons short. (Riverdale, Superstore, and more struggled to get last-minute plot movements in place under extreme circumstances.) NBC’s long-running crime thriller The Blacklist has gone a very different way, though: Taking existing footage, merging it with animation and new voice work from the show’s cast, and producing, well, this: