Watch Blue Bloods, Damn It!
I. Love. This. Show.
If you are a conservative and you don’t watch Blue Bloods, you are a caitiff and a knave. And okay, I don’t know what that means either, but the point is: you gotta watch this show. I know I’ve talked about it before, but it really does deserve repeating. We complain and complain about how the left has taken over the culture, then CBS puts something like this on offer and we’re too good for it or haven’t got time to pay attention.
Blue Bloods is a show about a family of NYPD cops. The dad — the wonderful Tom Selleck — is the commissioner, following in the footsteps of his own father, the equally remarkable and much under-appreciated Len Cariou. One of Selleck’s sons has died in the line of duty, one is a detective (perfectly played by Donnie Wahlberg), and one dropped out of Harvard law to become a patrolman (Will Estes, also very good). There’s also the sister, played by Bridget Moynihan, who’s a prosecutor, and Wahlberg’s beautiful and devoted wife, Amy Carlson.
Now I’m not going to say this is the most innovative show ever. The plots are standard cop fare, and while the family stuff is ninety percent heartwarming, I’d estimate about ten percent of the time it steps over the line into sentimentality.
But the values, the relationships, and the outlook of the program are so shockingly, bracingly, thrillingly right on — so much smarter and more realistic than the rest of the pap the networks dish out — that my wife and I turn to each other repeatedly throughout the hour and say, “I. Love. This. Show.” You’ll do the same.
Great show. Season 1 started a mite unevenly, reportedly due to an erstwhile show-runner wanting to ape every other police procedural on air, but it seems to have really hit its stride in Season 2
It is a very good police procedural without all of the politically correct BS Dick Wolf and NBC have been trying to shove down our throats for the past several years. The entire ensemble cast is entirely believable and likeable.
There was a power struggle on the show very early on…
If you write/produce this show, I humbly suggest YOU READ ALL THE COMMENTS THAT FOLLOW. Klavan and these people actually watch your show and have some valid notes.
You sold me — I’ll be watching it.
If you do, you’ll be putting money into CBS Corp and Viacom’s pockets, money they’ll ultimately use to help the kook left take and keep power and continue poisoning our culture with their other programming.
If you’re a conservative and you care about your country you shouldn’t be watching ANYTHING on CBS, NBC or any of their other parent companies’ channels.
What you should be doing is going to this website: http://www.howcableshouldbe.com and signing the petition demanding congress act on behalf of consumers and end the forced subsidies to these malevolent media companies/left-wing propaganda machines.
Actually, just watching it doesn’t put any money in their pockets. They don’t even know you’re watching it.
Really?
“…demanding congress act on behalf of consumers and end the forced subsidies…”
There ought to be a law? Congress should pass a law “demanding” what is and isn’t put on television?
“Forced subsidies?”
I don’t watch any of it, but I sure in hell don’t want Congress determining whether or not I can!
This one’s really easy: If no one wants to see it, it won’t be produced.
How is Congress determining what movies are made or what’s on TV any different from them telling me what health care I can and cannot have access to, Tom?
Never, ever miss it. And what’s wrong with a little genuine sentimentality in an industry that thinks you can force it in a reality show? That it’s a shock to see a multi-generational family sit down to dinner at the end, together, actually talking to each other, discussing things, sometimes disagreeing, but ever and always loving each other, is a sad commentary on the state of entertainment. And I’m guessing the great Tom Selleck is fighting a brave fight to maintain the integrity of the show, and I’m sure it’s not easy, even if you have viewing numbers backing you. So do as Andrew says. WATCH IT!! It’s a variation on the “If you don’t vote, don’t complain,” rule. If you don’t watch the rare good stuff, don’t complain when it goes away and there is no more.
Love the show. My wife and I have our dvr set to record it weekly. We’ve always been a fan of Tom Selleck.
Don’t watch tv anymore, killed my cable; I have to cut back because the liberals wont.
You don’t have to have cable to watch this one. It is on CBS.
Believe it or not, many people don’t even have a TV, much less watch. I’m one. Occasionally I’ll kill some time on Hulu. I saw Blue Bloods at a friend’s house(I was cat-sitting for the weekend). Good show, but I think part of the problem good shows have is that too many people simply don’t watch. I’ve been 19 years without a TV.
Can’t get even regular TV around here without cable. Seattle area.
I reviewed the box set of season one, which I didn’t hate, but had to admit that a few years of watching cable drama made all that top heavy, up-front, cram-it-in exposition (standard operating procedure on network TV) feel forced. I learned a lot of stuff about characters, but had a hard time getting a feel for them. And there was just so much recycled material (secret conspiracy in the NYPD; the daughter’s a liberal D.A. who’s always knocking heads with her brother the “whatever it takes” detective – that sort of thing) that I didn’t make it through the whole season. Interesting to learn that season two got better – I’ll have to check it out.
There’s an episode in the second season where she goes off at the dinner table in a not-liberal way, and the detective brother gives her “that look” sideways. Priceless.
Here’s the root of the problem:
The entertainment industry has squandered all of its goodwill.
Time after time we invest ourselves in watching a show only to have it turn PC (Progressive Communist) on us. This has happened so many times that we don’t believe that **anyhting** that hollywood produces is any good. Precedent has taught us this to be true.
As a personally perspective, I see all scripted shows as propaganda pieces. That’s why I only watch the unscripted shows (“American Chopper”, “Swamp Loggers” and “Gold Rush” etc.). Sure they are as contrived in their editing as any show in order to produce a good story but they don’t push an agenda at me.
Truth be told, 99% of all scripted dramas are made for women (coz the ladies do loves their drama).
And I seriously doubt that “Blue Bloods” will prove any different.
Sad, really. But in destroying their own creative credibility, along with many, many alternative forms of entertainment now coming availible, hollywood now faces a death of its own making.
Can’t say that we’ll miss it, either.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but “reality” shows like American Chopper are a scripted as anything else you will see on TV.
It’s a great show. I can’t believe people can gloss over a show with Tom Selleck. He adds quality and character to everything he does. I haven’t missed an episode; DVR’s are great.
The show is decent because of Tom Selleck. I lived in NYC for many years, and know many cops, and the way the cops speak to each other is way off the mark. Also, the story line about the blue eyed blonde american woman attempting to blow up Tompkins Square Park was transparent politically correct nonsense, and in another episode the family was praising socialized medicine. I watch because of Selleck and in spite of the usual lefty nonsense.
Our whole family loves it!
Our whole family hated it Predictable,simplistic,and boring family dysfunction.
Amen! Been watching this show since last season. It’s very very enjoyable. Glad you gave it a plug. It deserves it. How did CBS sneak this past their testing? I’m only afraid that they’ll pull the old switcheroo somewhere later on in the season.
Regards
John
I absolutely love this show. It treats the NYPD with respect but doesn’t sugarcoat its problems. Promotes super family values. and even made me want to have dinner around a big table like Selleck has every week. Too bad I have a tiny dining room.
BTW It’s definitely not PC.
I DVR Blue Bloods, to watch when there is nothing else on. (I DVR everything actually, absolutely hate commercials.) It’s an OK show, but not great.
The characters are a bit sappy, I mean a family THAT warm and fuzzy, is just TOO unbelievable. And Wahlberg’s character gives me a headache.
I have to admit it’s gotten a little better over time, but missing it doesn’t bother me.
Andrew. You are so right. My whole family, including my teenage daughter, watch this show every week. Like most conservatives, we were gunshy about a hollywood show about the NYPD for obvious reasons, but it is truly highlights the greatness of our law enforcement community. Thanks for the great article and please keep writing amazing books!
I love Bluebloods, and was worried when the writers bailed last season. So far it seems to be going ok, maybe a tiny bit more PC but not offendingly so. I wish the Chicago Code guys would sign on to write this show. And it’s nice to renew my crush on “Magnum” from – what- 30 years ago?
Sorry Andrew. I won’t watch any network TV at my house. Don’t like to encourage them…
Left, right or middle, don’t miss it. If you hated Selleck in Magnum, PI, this is your show.
Although I love the show, I have to point out that, as a 30+ year retired police officer and police supervisor, I am tired of TV cops living up to the Hollywood version of what a cop should act like. By this, the Donny Wahlberg detective character has engaged in coercing confessions and roughing up criminal suspects, both of which are unacceptable and would end a police career, chief’s son or not. The vast majority of cops in America “maintain a courageous calm in the face of danger, scorn or ridicule” as outlined in the Code of Ethics. Why Hollywood, so quick to condemn the real-life police when any wrongdoing is even alleged, finds it necessary to protray us as hotheaded and out of control is beyond my comprehension. The fact that the Harvard-educated liberal rookie has more control of his anger and fear than his seasoned veteran brother is unrealistic and telling of Hollywood’s attitudes toward what they perceive as “knuckle dragger” cops.
This is a wonderful observation, I have to say—and I also have to say that I’m as guilty as anyone of contributing to the disparity between real cops and fictional ones. More than once, I’ve seen officers in the field exhibit almost super-human patience and restraint in dealing with truly horrible people. And yet, I can’t help it, I delight to see a fictional cop slap a bad guy around because he’s expressing the audience’s righteous anger at the presence of evil and doing what we’d all like so much to do. Fiction does bear some responsibility to reality… but we can dream, can’t we?
Yes, Andrew, I agree. I often have an excruciatingly visceral reaction to any positive figure in film (or on TV) who smashes the guts out of a…you pick whatever kind of “bad guy” you want. In fact, THAT was what made “Death Wish” (the first one) such a success, even though Bronson wasn’t a cop. Here in New York, audiences would burst into quite unscripted applause when Charlie offed the criminals!
Kojak used to do that kind of thing every once in while, and with great style, but…that was “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away” when the police were still the good guys which they are, of course, in reality…just not often on celluloid, Commissioner Gordon excepted!
Everytime a leftist judge gives a criminal a pass, I pray that at least he got a good ass whupping from the arresting officer. Sometimes that’s the only punishment they will ever receive.
I watch this every time it is on. it is a great show, and I agree with the article.
I have watched it and had high hopes. I liked that they portrayed a strong family and even showed them saying grace! But they left out “through Christ our Lord” before the amen. Has Catholicism changed that much in the last 20 years? Or is mention of Christ “offensive”?
I took it off the DVR at the show where the murderer of a young escort turned out to be (surprise!) her mother–her white, Christian evangelical, Fatal Attraction type mother. Bye, bye.
I had recorded almost all of the first season when my DVR had to be replaced and everything recorded was lost. Aaarrrggghhh. I tried to watch the episodes on my computer, but it was just so laborious that I could not continue. That’s why I’m not watching. Maybe the network could start over showing the first season episodes at a weird time, so we can record them again.
I wholeheartedly agree…this show is FANTASTIC!! I have been singing its praises since the beginning. It drives me nuts when friends/family won’t give it a chance b/c they don’t like “cop” shows. It is so much more than that. The ones that do give it a chance are immediately hooked. I make very little time for TV because most of what’s on is crap. But this show is definitely worth my time!
It is a fantastic Show..as far as depicting actual NY police force, it is not a documentary. This is a solid drama with great acting
I wasn’t aware that it was back on TV again. Why didn’t anyone watch Chicago Code while we’re at it.
Because it sucked. I saw an episode on Hulu that concluded with the police commish (Beals) trying to pick up a guy at an upscale, convention hotel bar. Yeah, that’ll never get in Sneed.
Calvin and Katy
“Chicago Code”, perhaps the best trial series I’ve ever seen that did not make the cut. To this day I have not been able to imagine the reasoning behind that choice. It was a solid winner of a show. I have the episodes and pulled them out recently because I just missed the whole story.
I was totally ready to bail from the start seeing as the tale takes place in Chicago, but they set a person straight on that matter rather quickly don’t they?
Not to mention the family of cops is the REAGANS! Hello!
I think the question may well be, why aren’t Conservatives watching more TV? For the same reason we’re not going to the movie theatres. Nothing decent to watch, and the few shows that do blip on our radars are canceled before they begin, so why invest?
This season House and Eureka end. More and more shows are operating on the BBC version of series with no real structure to when they’ll be on. I’ll read a book, knit or watch a movie I like rather than try to watch anything that Hollywood is putting out because I don’t agree with the message 99% of the time. So, even good shows like Blue Bloods will get a miss because of our complete apathy towards the entertainment industry.
My wife and I DVR this show and love it! I have e-mailed this article to everyone I know.
I don’t have to watch it to know the bad guy will always be a white business man.
Tom Selleck has achieved the status of some of the old time actors such as Gable and Grant to name two. He doesn’t have to be in front of every scene, just being in the show makes it a hit.
Have watched since the beginning. Love the family dinners where the children are included in the discussions and values are shared. Family first.
This is one of the very few I watch on network TV and it is a great one. Why is CBS letting a non liberal, non PC show continue? They are in business after all and maybe they finally see that there is a market out here amongst us “bitter clingers”! That would be a rare turn of pure capitalism for CBS indeed. Anyway, I am going to encourage them. Conservatives need some entertainment too. I still refuse to watch theirs or any other MSM news program though except the local stuff.
Good point. Blue Bloods is a good show. As the nation’s pendulum swings right to logic and reality perhaps even hollyweird can see the writing on the wall. It’s pretty stupid to walk away from money on the table and there are definitely dollars to be raked in bringing back conservatives who are boycotting the liberal manure in droves.
It is and has been “appointment television” here since the first episode. The depiction of family and integrity is authentic and it exists in this country in more places than most in the entertainment industry realize. Hoo Rah for Blue Bloods.
I like Tom Selleck but I have a problem with his portraying a police commissioner in NYC. NYC laws show complete contempt for the Second Ammendment. Unfortunately Police Commissioners have to enforce thsoe despicable laws.Don`t see how Selleck can reconcile his being a director of the NRA and supporting Mike Bloombergs anti-gun campaigns. Sorry, NO SALE!
As a New Yorker, there are a lot of really stupid things about the show which are hard to look past. I like it, but I’d probably be able to enjoy it a lot more if it took place somewhere else.
Well I can tell you why this conservative and several others I know personally don’t watch Blue Bloods: it’s on CBS.
After the attempted scam they ran against GWB using forged documents to tarnish his ANG service I made use of the filter options on my STB and blocked CBS as well as all CBS corp and Viacom affiliated channels from my households viewing selection. Did the same not long after to NBC, and NBC/Universal programming and haven’t watched a single solitary second of any of anything broadcast on either of those left-wing propaganda outlets for years and don’t miss them in the least.
The better question is why is anyone calling themselves a conservative producing, acting on, watching and ultimately subsidizing the left’s propaganda machine by supporting these companies with their viewership and money?
Hopefully someday we’ll have a congress wise and responsible enough to act on cable choice legislation and end the unethical practice of forced bundling, thereby ending the immorally obtained revenue stolen through this practice (60% of the media companies’ overall revenue) and we can finally put them out of business like they should be once and for all.
Even more importantly though hopefully someday the average conservative will realize the utter folly of continuing to patronize any and all companies that fund the left’s political machinery.
I want the government OUT of the TV business (and every other business), not in it MORE! It’s BECAUSE of their involvement–certainly here in New York–that cable bills are so high and continually increasing. There is no competition in vast areas of the city, all because of corrupt city government involvement, picking winners and losers.
The bastards need to GET OUT OF THE WAY! Not more involved!
I watch many serial dramas on television, and can remember lookng forward to this one, as i had Tom. I gave it my best shot and was able to last 5 episodes. Is this show supposed to be a drama,soap-opera, or what, I sure can’t tell. The stories move painfully slow, and after those five tries, I still couldn’t care less about one single character. Not for me.
Gotta agree with you. We watched this show several times, but jeez, it was like The Waltons on steroids or something with those family dinners. I love Tom Selleck, but his character seemed forced and heavy. Maybe the second season is better, but we have a roku box now, and we don’t watch network TV anymore. Don’t really miss it either.
Disclaimer: I don’t do well with extortion. (Watch this show or liberals will win.)
We watched it halfway through the first season because of the positive buzz on many sites I read. And I liked it. But there were too many holes for me (an aspiring writer) to accept. So much of the plot is contrived. The show where Danny had to leave his wife at the hotel because of his partner’s grandmother’s birthday? Come on. I can’t believe that nobody else could have handled that situation. And the youngest son’s undercover gig? It is not believable to me. I liked the show–some. But as far as not wanting to miss it? I like Burn Notice and NCIS much better. And I really REALLY wanted to love Blue Bloods. I like the cast. I like the premise. I just don’t like the writing. Sorry.
Because most conservatives don’t have time to couch potato before the TV? We’re too busy working, raising our families, trying to avoid that IQ sucking device known as the Television…? Perhaps…
Bingo!
I agree. Twenty years plus in police work makes you appreciate a good police drama and Blue Bloods delivers. Yes, we all like Donnie’s character. Hard bitten but true to his duty, Wahlberg’s portrayal of a veteran detective reminds me of a couple of my buddies on the job. He manages to combine what is really true about most good cops, we walk in two worlds- the street and the home.
Selleck has always done good work since is days as Magnum, but this role may be his best as he brings honesty to the role as a man who knows his power and his limits. I like the idea that he tries to balance what he knows he can do with what he knows he should do. I wish there were more real people in real power who understood this principle.
I hope the show makes it for a long time, without falling prey to the desire to “dirty it up a bit” for shock value that we find so many good shows succumb to (Glee is one).
I really enjoy the show for many of the reasons noted by the author, though I didn’t care for the “Blue Templar” conspiracy back-story that ran through much of the first season. Fortunately, they wrapped that up in spectacular fashion in first season finale. Now we can move on.
Yes, it’s may not be an accurate portrayal of the real NYPD, but its underlying themes of duty, service, faith and family are not to be minimized. And were accuracy a requirement, one couldn’t simply enjoy, let alone *love*, a series like “Castle” – my own guilty pleasure. That one too has a tight family dynamic as backdrop.
We never miss this show. The scenes around the dinner table alone are worth the admission!! Great stuff and great wisdom. There’s already a lot of comments, but we will not miss a show, and we may even watch some of the better reruns. Thank you CBS.
I actually think of it less as a procedural and more of a family drama where the family happens to be cops. That family is like a second family to me.
I’m not entirely certain why this show hasn’t become “must see” for me. A little of it has been the scheduling merry-go-round but I think the other part is the number and handling of the arcs. I think there’s a tendency to splatter these too much and too soon in a show’s debut period rather than let the characters and interest in their arcs develop organically. Fortunately, “Blue Bloods” has what it takes to keep drawing me back, it just hasn’t locked me into my Barcalounger on Friday nights.
My wife discovered this early in the first season. I agree with comments above that (a) it was a bit uneven in the first season, and (b) the “Blue Templars” subplot was a bit silly.
Note, however, that we don’t watch this on CBS. We buy it through iTunes. ..bruce..
Dah dang! Will do sir!
TV show?
Um, no, I have a real life, and it’s full of worthwhile things.
Probably a good show, however due to previous biased leftist reporting I promised myself years ago never to tune into CBS.
We.Love.This.Show.In.Our.House.Too.
I haven’t watched it because the ads/previews are the “Buick” of cop shows, something your grandfather might like. (I’m just old enough that I could be one by the way). Look, it may be a good product, but I just don’t care. Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtI8QmwcjfM&list=SL&feature=sh_e_top Open on dull conversation; show no action until 2/3 of the way in; do nothing to distinguish yourself from other cop shows. Kudos for the line about 9/11, but this ad is only a bit more interesting than the promos PBS runs for their British imports of Scotland Yard cops.
The print ads are no better: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/blogs/2010/09/BlueBloods-KeyArt-Fall2010.jpg and http://blaredblu.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Blue-Bloods.jpg for instance. Staring cops in a generic pose, hoo boy, that will make me want to watch it.
Andy,
WE DON’T WATCH NETWORKS!
I’ve watched the show from the beginning. I can’t say it’s my favorite, but I do like the values displayed, and of course the acting is superb.
Excellent recommendation Klavan.
Ive been watching it since the beginnning. Big fan of Tom Selleck (a rare conservative in Hollywood).
Quality stuff.
Have watched from the beginning. All the characters are great and the plot lines are really good. Show is about family, not really about criminals and cops. Plus, we get to see one of the greatest mustaches in the country.
I tried to stay with it the first season, but the “secret society” thing just got to be too much.
Figured it couldn’t have improved since then, but I’ll take another run at it.
Besides, I love Tom Selleck and his character carries a Colt Fitz Special revolver.
I usually watch it although I prefer to think of Seleck as Magnum. I agree that the youngest’s job as an undercover cop is not realistic and keep waiting for him to get killed off. I also liked Seleck as that police chief in New England. The shows would be better if they followed the books more closely.
I’m 47 now, an age where I start estimating how many years might be left. Thinking back how much life I’ve used up watching TV/reading novels/living someone else’s imagination is horrendous. A challenging book takes priority nowadays. But for winding down I’ll keep the recommendation in mind.
Since I know it’s TV and is pure escapism, I don’t mind any “contradictions” or whatever too much. I find the show goes good with bourbon, so that works for me.
There are little gems here and there in the show for me: the decision to make the new mayor an Obama clone, complete with certain foibles and flaws (but not a caricature or malignant); the quip about the previous nanny state mayor when Commissioner Reagan has to toss his cigar while fishing; facing down a public sector union rep by getting the cops (union members) on HIS side instead. Stuff like that, nice little bones tossed our way. I’ll take them. They go good with bourbon too.
We get that here in Ontariario, Canada…via CTV…
It is one of the very few sheduled TV programmes I watch.
It is better than most…..
Selleck projects an aura…….
I recall Donnie Wahberg from “Band of Brothers”…….
And I like to watch Bridget Moynihan breath………
But then I find “Big Bang Theory” somewhat amusing…..the equivalent of light reading…….
I like the show a lot. The truth is (I just read Ben Shapiro’s book), the hollywood makers of the shows are totally talented people. They could do more conservative/traditional american shows and pull it off quite easily. The show Family had the girl-losing her virginity-getting hooked on dope-and turning lesbo all in like 5-6 years. Hollywood dramas-sitcoms-and cop shows have just seemed have hit the replay button (on let your freak flag fly) and mailed it in with the occasional abortion “episode”. The decision was always sooo hard, but in the end the girl gets the abortion. How obviously do they have to offend the audience? Which by the way they are losing a big chunk to their ideology.
Hopefully B-Bloods can begin to make a change.
Blue Blood: read the book, too.
and anything by the cop author.
I LOVE this show- my husband and I never miss it! The characters are well drawn and the story lines are excellent.
Like the show alot. Little things like Tom Selleck smoking a cigar on a pier, and a beat cop walks up on him and says “no smoking sir”, then realizes its the commish, sorry sir. I hate smoking nazis. CBS will kill the show in the end. The best show of the decade was ‘Las Vegas’. NBC killed it because it did not fit in with the Dick Wolf narrative of progressive values of the USSA.
This is a wonderful show that we record every week (so we can blast through the commercials). The best part of it is that it’s very predictable, just like the old Perry Masons, a confession comes from the dirtbag 5 minutes before the end of the show. That said, we wait for each new episode.
Powder is dry
This is the only broadcast TV show that I’ll watch. It was the least politically correct series on the tube [Season II appears to be more "sensitive"]. And being born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, high school in Manhattan, lived a major part of my life at 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx, I just love the NYC scenes.
Consider one of the Season One episodes, about the “subway samaritan”. A group of young black thugs are terrorizing a subway car [politically incorrect], brandishing weapons and a gun, someone starts shooting, strangely one of the thugs ends up dying. There are soon reports that one of the passengers not only moved to protect a young woman on the train with his body, but eventually pulled an [illegal] gun of his own and apparently shot the thug [politically incorrect, though the passenger was brown, which made the act and the whole episode politically excusable if not correct]. The media starts searching for, not a Bernard Goetz “subway gunman”, but a “subway samaritan”, holy cow, can you get any more politically incorrect than that? He eventually turns himself in, is of course arrested, incarcerated, stabbed in confinement for his shooting the “wrong” kind of criminal [politically incorrect] but lives to see himself treated much more lightly than Bernie Goetz [fortunately for the "subway samaritan", he had redeeming virtues that Goetz did not].
But the show is not immune from the Hollywood commissars. Although the pilot shows the extended family saying grace at Sunday dinner with “through Christ our Lord Amen”, as all of us old time Catholics say, later episodes omit the intolerably offensive [to whom?] “through Christ our Lord”.
And most of the time that Donnie Wahlberg is chowing down at the Sunday dinner, rather than a good Irish-American having a snow shovel full of meat and potatoes on his fork, he typically has a pathetic piece of broccoli, with which he often stabs the air toward his ACLU-loving sister in rebuke. Hey, Don, do you think Carwood Lipton would have been afraid to take a real forkful of the good stuff?
I find the show to be a bit trite and hackneyed. The plots and characters have been used and re-used, until they’re as stale as week-old bread. I like some of the actors in it, but the show, not so much.
It’s a great show, and the only one of the network shows I watch. I really wish it were on at 9 PM instead of 10. I’m sure this is an archaic issue in this modern world of information technology, but you have to have priorities in life, and rearranging my content-viewing capabilities is way down the list.
Law and Order was huevos deep in cultural marxism.
Week after week violent crimes were perpetrated by the Anglo Saxon residents of Manhattan. They remade the Mayflower Madam several times. Preppy Killer, Robert Chambers. Bernhardt Goetz. Wall Street types frequently murdered prostitutes who threatened to ruin their marriages.
If you are a hollywood liberal, you can create the kind of fantasy world that makes you happy.
Blue Bloods is one of my favorite shows. In fact, it’s one of only two shows I make every effort to see each week. The episode that aired Friday, 1/13, was a knockout. In it the Commissioner (Tom Selleck) had to decide if he’d use images of 9/11 to sell NYPD service to potential recruits. The way he faces down Mr. Marketer, hired by the Mayor, is great television.
I’m glad to see that it’s a hit.
“Now I’m not going to say this is the most innovative show ever. The plots are standard cop fare, and while the family stuff is ninety percent heartwarming, I’d estimate about ten percent of the time it steps over the line into sentimentality.”
That was the basis of your recommendation? I’ll add cliche and say I gave up on it weeks ago.