The creators of NBC’s Blindspot know how the show will ultimately end, showrunner Martin Gero maintains.
NBC have ordered a full season of the mystery-crime thriller, with a second season renewal expected to follow in the weeks and months ahead.
Speaking to LA Times, Gero reiterated that the show’s end game has already been mapped out:
Oh, yes, we know who [Jane] is. That’s so important to us. Greg and I sat down and spent a lot of time with that. We know exactly who she is, we know who did this to her. We know why they did it to her; we know what their end game is. That’s not stuff we could do on the fly. For us, too, the early weeks in the writers room were more about Episode 22 than they were about Episodes 2 and 3. It was really important for us to know what all the tent poles were going to be for us this season and write backwards, as opposed to try to figure it out as we went along — which, to be honest, I just don’t know how to do. So, yeah, it’s pretty solidly set. And it’s why were able to give away what seems to be like so much — because we know what’s coming and we know there’s so much more to come.
We know what a lot of the tattoos are. The real bummer of this show is if it didn’t get picked up to series, we had done so much work before on the pilot because a) we needed to know a lot of these answers just in the pitching of it and b) we’re imprinting a treasure map on the body that even a casual viewer will start to detect if there’s a new tattoo on her back. So a lot of story had to be imprinted on her body beforehand.
However, Gero confirms that the show has some inbuilt ‘escape hatches’ that will allow the story to change course should, for example, Blindspot get caught by the Cancellation Reaper before its potential 10-season run is complete:
There’s a handful of tattoos in there to give us outs if we run into trouble. They’re on the generic side. But it’s a lot of fun trying to stick to some sort of game plan.
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