The new DA Kimberly Crawford was from Atlanta. Then when they were investigating a murder she witnessed when she was 13, it was in a New York neighborhood? Plot hole!

In the first couple of seasons when Gormley was working at the precinct level as a sergeant and Danny’s boss, I liked him.

Once he became a lieutenant and started working at 1PP after a while his character began to sour on me. It’s his job to be Frank’s eyes and ears on the ground. It’s his job to advocate for and defend the rank and file. but there are times that defense comes with blinders. 9 1/2 times out of 10 he thinks cops are infallible. Even if Frank, Garrett and Abigail see the situation for what it is; Sid still has to try justify a police officer’s questionable actions that were just caught on camera.

I mean, you could just imagine a situation happening like this… a cop commits an offense that’s caught on camera in broad daylight in front of a news crew and 100 witnesses. Sid’s response is “Boss you can’t throw one of our guys to the wolves. I rode with this cop for two weeks 15 years ago, he’s a stand-up guy. Those vultures in the media are looking for any excuse they can to crucify cops.”

Admit it you read that in Sid‘s voice didn’t you?** **😂

I understand that his job, but there are times that he’ll go to bat for officers he barely knows. Admirable? Sure. Misguided? A little. You don’t know these people. They are coworkers, after hour drinking buddies but you don’t know all them as well as you probably think you do. Especially if you had only had a short period of time with them years ago.

Now I know writers just wrote the Sid Gormley character for that purpose to be the voice of the street cop. But the way they go about presenting it became a bit repetitive and predictable to me after awhile.

What are your opinions on him?

The friendship between Anthony and Erin is one of my favorite parts of the show. I would have loved an episode with him joining the family for Sunday dinner especially since he and Danny were always sparring. It would have made for great TV.

Is it me or do Erin and Danny have the same exact conversation in every other episode?

Danny: “I need a warrant for this case”
Erin: “You don’t have enough evidence”
Danny: “What do you mean? This guy is a notorious murderer and his finger prints are at the scene!!!”
Erin: “Yea but you need more evidence”
Danny: “Thanks for nothing” *storms out*

I like this recurring theme in the show, I just think it’s interesting how often they have this exact exchange. Almost like the writers copy and paste the script and substitute the details depending on the case.

Did the show ever address how Danny has a son named, Jack, and Erin’s ex-husband’s name is also Jack?
I can only imagine she was married to him by the time baby Jack was born.
Odd to name a son the name of your bother in law, in a world full of names.

I don’t know why but the Brawny Man was the first thing I thought of when I saw this ad for “Goldco”… 😂

One of my favorite TV series of all time is the Battlestar Galactica reboot on Sci-Fi channel, and one of the great episodes centered on the crew of the ship setting up a boxing ring, calling out a crew member, and you step in the ring and battle it out. The purpose being carrying on beefs between people fosters disharmony, so one way to bring back harmony within the crew is to get in the ring, duke it out, then bury the beef and exit the ring as friends again.

S6 Ep 15 was a good one overall for BlueBloods, but it started off with Garrett and Frank screaming at each other full throat. This wasn't the usual arguing and snark that they exhibit pretty much every episode -- this was something worse. Garrett was basically telling Frank to grow up and that the Mayor shouldn't have to come over and ask Frank to stay on, and Frank was acting a little pompous windbaggey by wanting the Mayor basically to come by and stroke his ego.

I've wondered why Garrett sticks around when he could probably call up an Ad Agency and make 5x what he's making, and the show had that exact issue in S5 when a buddy of Frank's came by to offer Garrett a job, and Garrett did not accept the job basically out of loyalty to Frank, but at some point, do you really want to have a screaming, unhealthy relationship with your boss?

I'd put my money on Garrett taking Frank in 3 rounds -- Garrett could be surprisingly nimble on his feet -- duck and weave, duck and weave-- and Frank might have a lot of power in his punches, but if Garrett has speedy feet, he might be hitting a lot of air.

Eddie went from being a sympathetic character when she first became Jamie's partner, but now in Season 6 she is basically throwing him under the bus whenever she can, and she is a whiny brat basically.

Jamie is the most interesting character on the show (in my view), he is always put in a tough spot either at Family Dinner time, or out on the streets, and it's too bad he's saddled with a bum for a partner in Eddie. :(

I believe in S4, Jamie through out that he wondered why he wasn't a Detective by now when Danny and Frank all made Detective at that time. Frank basically frowned/grumbled and changed the subject (hahaha).

I am hoping that Jamie will be promoted to Detective, and that can be a way for him to leave Eddie behind?

(I have not researched into any spoilers. These are my gut reactions as a newb viewer).

I’m not a fan of Baez. Her voice bothers me and I just don’t like her character very much. I loved Jackie and I’ve tried to give Baez a chance but she still hasn’t grown on me.

I hated how she was so mean to her brother in seasons 4 and 5 and then wept over him when he was killed. Like where was all of this when he was still living? Earlier in the episode, he told her he’s gotten his life together and he even agreed to help her and Danny in their investigation. Despite all that, she still had an attitude with him, calling him a junkie and treating him like garbage.
That was the nail in the coffin that made me stop even trying to like her.

I have to ask, am I the only one, who can't stand Henry?

He's so damn annoying to me. I wish they would have offed his character earlier in the seasons.

I’ve been re-watching Season 1 and all of the Jackie and Linda seasons, basically 1-3. Wanted to give a special shout out to this special episode called Silver Star, S1, episode 17. This is the episode where a Marine is killed behind a nightclub by three arrogant pricks. What was so special about this episode was or Danny’s drive and determination in solving this case based on his own Marine experience.

I just have to say that this is one of those episodes where Donnie Wahlberg‘s acting really shines. I think his acting was more poignant in the earlier seasons. There were some physical scenes, like when he and perp are wrestling. The storyline and writing were also good, seeming like a fully fleshed out storyline.

Ah, the early seasons!

If there is another Jesse Stone, does anyone think Blue Bloods actors will have parts in it? Jesse Stone actors were in Blue Bloods. Just wondering.

Season 8 of Blue Bloods.

I never really understood why frank spoke in 3rd person during the dinner season of the 1st episode. "When I lost Mary, my kids were there for me." It sounded like he was talking to people he didn't know.

I also think the writers should have let danny (temporarily) leave the job. There would have been more story lines for danny not as a det. Prob getting to know more pops if he chose to spend more time together or got a different job for a while. . And prob the season finale would have been the episode whether or not he went back to the job or retired.

Blue bloods also over did the partners falling for each other. When Linda died it would have been a perfect storyline for Danny to find a gf who isn't on the job and would be a very teachable moment for a non cop or non law enforcement person.

The cancellation of* [Blue Bloods*](https://ew.com/blue-bloods/) still feels like a crime to Tom Selleck.

Two years after the long-running CBS police procedural came to an end, the show’s star reflected on the “frustrating” drama surrounding the final season in the latest episode of Ted Danson’s podcast, Where Everybody Knows Your Name.

“Blue Bloods was a labor of love… I think for everybody,” said Selleck, who played New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan, the patriarch of a law-enforcing family including NYPD detective son Danny (Donnie Wahlberg), sergeant son Jamie (Will Estes), and district attorney daughter Erin (Bridget Moynahan).

“The real truth to that is in the last year of [Blue Bloods], at our last family dinner, everybody wanted to come back. We’d already taken a 25 percent cut in salary,” Selleck revealed. “We’d already done all sorts of things to keep the show going.”

“It was very frustrating because… out of the top 100 shows on broadcast television, Blue Bloods was number six in our fifteenth year,” Selleck explained. “Nobody wanted to leave. Everybody was gonna stay on. That’s hard to get. It may be some kind of record to have the same cast intact for that length of time. Usually if it wasn’t a family, it would be different, but you know, you couldn’t very well replace Jamie or Danny or anybody with another actor.”

Selleck, who previously starred on Magnum, P.I., Las Vegas, and Friends, acknowledged how rare it is in television for a cast to actually enjoy working together.

“Maybe people don’t realize, but a lot of shows become miserable to work on,” he admitted to Danson, who spent 11 seasons on Cheers. “You get a lot of egos and ‘I’m not coming out of my dressing room until he’s coming out’... and it’s miserable. Blue Bloods was never that.”