History Series / Blindspot

** When Zapata makes fun of [[Creator/AshleyJohnson Patterson]]'s tabletop gaming habit and calls her an elf, she retorts with "Actually, I'm a [[WebVideo/CriticalRole gnome cleric]]."

* FriendInThePress: Played With. Megan Butani is a highly dedicated investigative journalist who works for the New York Post, as well as being FBI agent Edgar Reade's fiancé throughout season three but whilst close to him and civil with his team and they often express interest in each other's investigations, for the most part, the two keep their professional lives separate from their relationship. [[spoiler: It's played straight in season 5, when the team contact Megan and uses her connections to finally expose [[CorruptPolitician Madeline Burke]] numerous crimes to the public, leading to her swift downfall]].

* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: The villain in the pilot rapidly fires multiple shots from a 3D printed plastic gun. While such designs ''can'' actually fire a bullet, they can only fire a single round due to the pressure and heat from the shot damaging and warping the plastic. This may be an example of AndSomeOtherStuff; the cops would probably like it if some moron ended up with a useless gun after one shot.

Gero said in recent interviews that he's open to the idea of a spin-off sequel with Zapata as the main character taking on cases as a PI after leaving the FBI.

The show has aired five seasons.

** On the GrandFinale, the team is no longer allowed to [[spoiler:belong to the FBI or another governmental organization despite their names being cleared. They move on to live their own lives.]]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: 'Zip' is actually a real drug with similar (though not identical) effects to those depicted. Here's a 2012 article about [[http://www.wired.com/2012/02/the-forgetting-pill/ research into it]].

* BolivianArmyCliffhanger: Madeline Burke sent drones against a cabin the team except Jane was hiding on.

* CIAEvilFBIGood:
** [[spoiler:Mayfair's]] contact regarding Operation Daylight is a Deputy Director of the CIA, and advocates killing Jane to maintain the cover-up, then [[spoiler:threatens Mayfair when she refuses to allow him to handle the situation himself]].
** Features heavily in "Split the Law": the CIA is found to be running an illegal domestic black ops site, prepares to gun down FBI agents in broad daylight, and cheerfully admits to doing things like leaving one of their sources to his fate when he becomes inconvenient, not assisting the FBI when they're trying to stop a terrorist attack with a dirty bomb, trying to assassinate Jane (though Mayfair keeps that one a secret from the rest of the team)...
** We discover in the second season premier that [[spoiler: after Jane was arrested by Weller she was grabbed up by the CIA and tortured for three months at a "black site" in Oregon.]]

* ActorAllusion: Creator/AshleyJohnson has gotten to make several ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' jokes on the show. At first they were just her goofing off, but after the showrunners became fans they started adding them in, including a segment where Patterson point blank admits to playing D&D, even going so far as to say she's a gnome cleric, the same as Johnson's character on the show.

* RealityEnsues: Patterson's civilian boyfriend David gets so caught up in solving the clues that he trails someone connected with a cipher that he and Patterson discovered. [[spoiler:The person he's trailing kills him.]]

** Done 2-handed by Shepherd to an Asian man in s2e19 after escaping prison.
** Done in s2e21 by a Sandstorm agent to a security guard.

** Mayfield's flashbacks in "Persecute Envoys" have a heavy blue tint to them, almost to the point of washing out all other colors.

** Season 3 changed the code again. In each title, there is exactly one letter that is found immediately between two instances of a different letter. For example, the title of episode 1, "Back to the Grind", has the letter "o" between two "t"'s. Those center letters, in episode order, spell "One of us will give our life".
** In Season 4, each episode title is a homage to a classic TV show. The first letter of each show spells "IS THIS THE DEATH OF THE FBI".

** All episode titles in Season 1 are {{Significant Anagram}}s. Once decoded, the first ten form a non-rhyming poem regarding the plot of the series. On top of ''that'', the anagrams form a coherent, intriguing paragraph; [[spoiler:Who is Jane Doe? Taylor Shaw, the missing girl, or maybe not. The past will cloud our eyes. Suspect everyone. Lift the curtain, and unveil the mastermind. In case of emergency, follow these instructions; stay where you are. Find a secure line to contact your handler. Find what you need in almost the last place you look. To begin the sequence, focus on the time, then wait for the address to your new safehouse. The final order will be revealed when it's filed away.]] The creators have stated that the episode names of future seasons will also have hidden messages, possibly encoded in other ways.