History YMMV / Blindspot

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: This seems to be the case and the advertising as well as early shots of the show aren't helping. It seems very focused on Jaimie Alexander's considerable charms and the tattoos thereon. (She was NakedOnArrival in the first episode, and the advertising never lets you forget, though a later ad does cut from just her arm coming out of the bag to a fully clothed and standing shot of her that shows off the tattoos well enough. You get the feeling someone complained.)

* FandomRivalry: Fans of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse have grown increasingly unhappy with the show keeping Jamie Alexander from returning to her role as Sif, especially given her status as one of the few film characters to cross over to the TV shows. This got especially heated when the ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' crew was forced to drop all their plans for her and simply have her be absent without explanation. (However, it did spare her from the grisly fate of Asgard's defenders in that film, causing some to consider it a blessing in disguise -- at this point, she is the ''only'' named Asgardian other than Thor or Loki whose return was possible and it is happening in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''.)

* HesJustHiding: After the Season 5 first episode showed [[spoiler:that Edgar Reade died in the drone attack sent by Madeline]], some speculated that he is actually alive.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: In Season 2, the team was hit harshly with this due to their poor treatment of Jane (only after finding out about her involvement with Sandstorm), even blaming her for Mayfair's death, which was the doing of Oscar and she was actually being manipulated due to her memory loss. They even keep seeing Mayfair as a martyr despite the crimes she comitted before. Out of the entire members, Zapata is the worst as she bluntly makes it clear she doesn't want to see, talk or even work with Jane, whom she treats like a traitor and openly distrusts her for supposedly being involved in the deaths of at least twelve FBI agents who were led into a trap. This behavior is very hyprocritical on her part when you take into account that she's done pretty treacherous things for Keaton, the director of the CIA. [[UngratefulBastard Reade was also dismissive to Jane after saving his life at one point.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: In Season 2, the team was hit harshly with this due to their poor treatment of Jane (only after finding out about her involvement with Sandstorm), even blaming her for Mayfair's death, which was the doing of Oscar and she was actually being manipulated due to her memory loss. They even keep seeing Mayfair as a martyr despite the crimes she comitted before. Out of the entire members, Zapata is the worst as she bluntly makes it clear she doesn't want to see, talk or even work with Jane, whom she treats like a traitor and openly distrusts her for supposedly being involved in the deaths of at least twelve FBI agents who were led into a trap. This behavior is very hyprocritical on her part when you take into account that she's done pretty treacherous things for Keaton, the director of the CIA. [[UngratefulBastard Reade also acted dismissive to Jane after saving his life at one point during a mission]].

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: In Season 2, the team was hit harshly with this due to their poor treatment of Jane (only after finding out about her involvement with Sandstorm), even blaming her for Mayfair's death, which was the doing of Oscar and she was actually being manipulated due to her memory loss. They even keep seeing Mayfair as a martyr despite the crimes she comitted before. Out of the entire members, Zapata is the worst as she bluntly makes it clear she doesn't want to see, talk or even work with Jane, and openly distrusts her for supposedly being involved in the deaths of at least twelve FBI agents who were led into a trap. [[UngratefulBastard Reade also acted dismissive to Jane after saving his life at one point during a mission]].

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: In Season 2, the team was hit harshly with this due to their poor treatment of Jane (only after finding out about her involvement with Sandstorm), even blaming her for Mayfair's death, which was the doing of Oscar and she was actually being manipulated due to her memory loss. They even keep seeing Mayfair as a martyr despite the crimes she comitted before. Out of the entire members, Zapata is the worst as she bluntly makes it clear she doesn't want to see, talk or even work with Jane, and openly distrusts her for supposedly being involved in the deaths of at least twelve FBI agents who were led into a trap.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some fans weren't happy that "Persecute Envoys" uses police brutality against unarmed black people as nothing more than window dressing to a far less challenging plot, rather than taking any kind of stand on a very topical issue. Possibly subverted in that [[spoiler: the climax revealed that a white police chief was blackmailing a black athlete]] in a way that managed to avoid being {{Anvilicious}}.

** What has helped the show avoid any long term backlash is having a laundry list of characters with entirely incidental sexualities. Villains and heroic characters alike are revealed to have spouses or lovers of their own gender without anyone batting an eyelid. Even [[AnythingThatMoves Rich]] [[DepravedBisexual Dotcom]] is never displayed badly because of his interests.

** "[[Recap/BlindspotS1E14RulesInDefiance Rules in Defiance]]": [[HumanTraffickers Maxwell Tate]] is a rich and powerful man, who for at least seven years ran a forced prostitution ring. He has his agents in immigration select young women who are being deported back to Mexico then has his thugs abduct them. Taking them to a building he owns Tate throws elaborate parties for the rich and powerful where the women are [[SexSlave repeatedly raped and abused for the guest's pleasure]]. When one woman, Paloma Diaz, was killed by a guest, Tate forced her friend Camila to dispose of the body, then had a false case built to [[FrameUp frame Paloma's boyfriend Ronnie Vargas]] for abusing, raping and murdering her, guaranteeing Vargas would be executed. When Vargas tried to prove his innocence, Tate had Vargas's sister's home burned to the ground as a warning, almost killing her and her three children. When Tate discovers [[FBIAgent Tasha Zapata]] has infiltrated his organization, to cover up what he has been doing he simply has all the women, including Tasha, rounded into the basement where he kept them, then sets the building on fire, dismissing it as "I can't risk leaving any evidence".

** Season 5: [[DragonWithAnAgenda Ivy Sands]] is an icy, sadistic [[TerroristWithoutACause Dabbur Zhan]] terrorist leader who stands out as the only main antagonist to lack any sympathetic traits. Forming an alliance with Madeline Burke, Ivy agrees to capture the team in exchange for Madeline providing her with chemical weapons in particular weaponized ZIP, which can cause death in high amounts, and even in low amounts causes [[DeathOfPersonality complete memory loss]] and eventual death by mental degradation. Hunting the team throughout Europe, Ivy kidnaps, tortures, and murders multiple people in her relentless pursuit. Breaking her best soldiers out of prison, Ivy attempts to [[DeadlyGas gas bomb]] ten European capital cities hoping to throw the whole continent into chaos. Capturing Kurt Weller, Ivy brutally tortures him with a specially designed cocktail of drugs and psychotics to break him. Following Madeline's defeat, Ivy carries on, attempting to set off the ZIP Bombs throughout America, using a local bomb maker to drastically increasing their fallout range and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murdering the man who gave her information to them]]. Left with no more men, Ivy personally attempts to set off her remaining bomb in Times Square to kill millions of people.

* FandomRivalry: Fans of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse have grown increasingly unhappy with the show keeping Jamie Alexander from returning to her role as Sif, especially given her status as one of the few film characters to cross over to the TV shows. This got especially heated when the ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' crew was forced to drop all their plans for her and simply have her be absent without explanation. (However, it did spare her from the grisly fate of Asgard's defenders in that film, causing some to consider it a blessing in disguise - at this point, she is the ''only'' named Asgardian other than Thor or Loki whose return was possible and it is happening in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.)

* DesignatedHero: Mayfair. Sure, she was trying to stay on the straight and narrow. However, she was also hiding her part in Operation Daylight, [[NotSoDifferent just like Carter]], and she was very unwilling to admit to it. Even when her life and her career were on the line, she kept quiet about it. Yet, she blamed Jane before she died for her being framed, when it was really the fault of her ex. Still, her team still act as though she was a purely good person who died unfairly, and it was all Jane's fault.

* FandomRivalry: Fans of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse have grown increasingly unhappy with the show keeping Jamie Alexander from returning to her role as Sif, especially given her status as one of the few film characters to cross over to the TV shows. This got especially heated when the ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' crew was forced to drop all their plans for her and simply have her be absent without explanation. (However, it did spare her from the grisly fate of Asgard's defenders in that film, causing some to consider it a blessing in disguise - at this point, she is the ''only'' named Asgardian other than Thor or Loki whose return is still possible.)
* FriendlyFandoms: Viewers of ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' have a bittersweet love of Blindspot, because Creator/AshleyJohnson's obligations to this series have lead to her vanishing from the show for extended periods due to filming conflicts.

** "[[Recap/BlindspotS4E11CarelessWhisper Careless Whisper]]": [[MadArtist Iris Bikelmyer]] is an [[KillerCop auxiliary police officer]] who, after becoming unsatisfied making models out of dead rats, moonlights as a SerialKiller, dubbed "The New York Ripper". Over several years, she murdered 35 people in Long Island, becoming the deadliest serial killer in the state's history, with her MO ranging from slit wrists and drowning to torture and ritualistic killing. After each death she would carefully pose the bodies, make a strategic cut with a scalpel and set up the crime scene so CSU would find nothing out of place; for years no one connected the deaths. Realizing that true crime author Winston Pear was onto her, Iris broke into his home and bludgeoned him to death with his typewriter. Then from his notebook she tracked down his editor Frankie, slowly killing her whilst [[MouthStitchedShut sewing her lips shut]]. Believing Jane Doe was the last persons he needed to eliminate; Iris kidnapped her planning to torture her to death. Sadistic and arrogant, when called out for crimes Iris claimed that her "subjects" should be honored that she chose to immortalize them.

** "[[Recap/BlindspotS2E15DrawOCaesarEraseACoward Draw O Caesar, Erase A Coward]]": [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Marjory Ellis]] is an auction house manager, who secretly set up, along with Mark Gelman, and masterminds a HumanTrafficking operation. Supported and supplied by the Estevez Cartel, they smuggled dozens of kidnapped Mexican citizens into America. Upon arrival the Mexicans are imprisoned in a warehouse, chained to camp beds. The ones who prove to be matches have their [[OrganTheft organs harvested]] for Doctor Katz's black market transplants to his rich patients, with Marjory selling the rest to [[TheMafiya the Ukrainian Mafia]]. She manipulated Gelman into believing she loved him so he would stay loyal, then abandoned him following his arrest. Learning that the FBI have starting to investigate, Marjory tried to tie up all her loose ends, personally murdering Doctor Katz, then taking her last batch of a dozen victims, plus Kurt Weller and Roman Bridger who she kidnapped, to the Ukrainians for one final sale, before escaping. The worst member of the operation, Marjory possessed no regrets and was driven solely by the pursuit of wealth.

** [[HumanTraffickers Maxwell Tate]], from season 1's "[[Recap/BlindspotS1E14RulesInDefiance Rules in Defiance]]", is a rich and powerful man, who for at least seven years ran a forced prostitution ring. He has his agents in immigration select young women who are being deported back to Mexico then has his thugs abduct them. Taking them to a building he owns Tate throws elaborate parties for the rich and powerful where the women are [[SexSlave repeatedly raped and abused for the guest's pleasure]]. When one woman, Paloma Diaz, was killed by a guest, Tate forced her friend Camila to dispose of the body, then had a false case built to [[FrameUp frame Paloma's boyfriend Ronnie Vargas]] for abusing, raping and murdering her, guaranteeing Vargas would be executed. When Vargas tried to prove his innocence, Tate had Vargas's sister's home burned to the ground as a warning, almost killing her and her three children. When Tate discovers [[FBIAgent Tasha Zapata]] has infiltrated his organization, to cover up what he has been doing he simply has all the women, including Tasha, rounded into the basement where he kept them, then sets the building on fire, dismissing it as "I can't risk leaving any evidence".
** [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Marjory Ellis]], from season 2's "[[Recap/BlindspotS2E15DrawOCaesarEraseACoward Draw O Caesar, Erase A Coward]]", is an auction house manager, who secretly set up, along with Mark Gelman, and masterminds a HumanTrafficking operation. Supported and supplied by the Estevez Cartel, they smuggled dozens of kidnapped Mexican citizens into America. Upon arrival the Mexicans are imprisoned in a warehouse, chained to camp beds. The ones who prove to be matches have their [[OrganTheft organs harvested]] for Doctor Katz's black market transplants to his rich patients, with Marjory selling the rest to [[TheMafiya the Ukrainian Mafia]]. She manipulated Gelman into believing she loved him so he would stay loyal, then abandoned him following his arrest. Learning that the FBI have starting to investigate, Marjory tried to tie up all her loose ends, personally murdering Doctor Katz, then taking her last batch of a dozen victims, plus Kurt Weller and Roman Bridger who she kidnapped, to the Ukrainians for one final sale, before escaping. The worst member of the operation, Marjory possessed no regrets and was driven solely by the pursuit of wealth.
** [[MadArtist Iris Bikelmyer]], from season 4's "[[Recap/BlindspotS4E11CarelessWhisper Careless Whisper]]", is an [[KillerCop auxiliary police officer]] who, after becoming unsatisfied making models out of dead rats, moonlights as a SerialKiller, dubbed "The New York Ripper". Over several years, she murdered 35 people in Long Island, becoming the deadliest serial killer in the state's history, with her MO ranging from slit wrists and drowning to torture and ritualistic killing. After each death she would carefully pose the bodies, make a strategic cut with a scalpel and set up the crime scene so CSU would find nothing out of place; for years no one connected the deaths. Realizing that true crime author Winston Pear was onto her, Iris broke into his home and bludgeoned him to death with his typewriter. Then from his notebook she tracked down his editor Frankie, slowly killing her whilst [[MouthStitchedShut sewing her lips shut]]. Seeing Jane Doe as the last person she needed to eliminate; Iris kidnapped her planning to torture her to death. Sadistic and arrogant, when called out for crimes Iris claimed that her "subjects" should be honored that she chose to immortalize them.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Chinese viewers liked Blindspot because of Jane Doe's fluency with Wenzhounese, a very difficult Chinese dialect to speak.

** Carter Waterboarding Jane in "Evil Handmade Instrument".

* StrangledByTheRedString: It's honestly somewhat impressive how Kurt and Jane [[spoiler: get married]] and manage to have ''zero'' chemistry whatsoever.

* BreakoutCharacter: Rich Dot Com was a quirky baddie in a single episode of the first season, a recurring comic relief villain in the second season, and a new member of the main cast in the third.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: This seems to be the case and the advertising as well as early shots of the show aren't helping. It seems very focused on Jaimie Alexander's considerable charms and the tattoos thereon.

* FandomRivalry: Fans of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse have grown increasingly unhappy with the show keeping Jamie Alexander from returning to her role as Sif, especially given her status as one of the few film characters to cross over to the TV shows. This got especially heated when the ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' crew was forced to drop all their plans for her and simply have her be absent without explanation.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some fans weren't happy that "Persecute Envoys" uses police brutality against unarmed black people as nothing more than window dressing to a far less challenging plot, rather than taking any kind of stand on a very topical issue. Possibly subverted in that [[spoiler: the climax revealed that a white police chief was blackmailing a black athlete]] in a way that managed to avoid being Anvilicious.

* {{Narm}}: The bizarre and pointless shot zooming up a blatantly-CGI spiral staircase in the pilot.

* {{Narm}}: The bizarre and pointless shot zooming up a ConspicuousCG spiral staircase in the pilot.

** [[MadArtist Iris Bikelmyer]], from season 4's "[[Recap/BlindspotS4E11CarelessWhisper Careless Whisper]]", is an [[KillerCop auxiliary police officer]] who, after becoming unsatisfied making models out of dead rats, moonlights as a SerialKiller, dubbed "The New York Ripper". Over several years, she murdered 35 people in Long Island, becoming the deadliest serial killer in the state's history, with her MO ranging from slit wrists and drowning to torture and ritualistic killing. After each death she would carefully pose the bodies, make a strategic cut with a scalpel and set up the crime scene so CSU would find nothing out of place; for years no one connected the deaths. Realizing that true crime author Winston Pear was onto her, Iris broke into his home and bludgeoned him to death with his typewriter. Then from his notebook she tracked down his editor Frankie, slowly killing her whilst [[MouthStitchedShut sewing her lips shut]]. Believing Jane Doe was the last persons he needed to eliminate; Iris kidnapped her planning to torture her to death. Sadistic and arrogant, when called out for crimes Iris claimed that her "subjects" should be honored that she chose to immortalize them.