Critic’s Score: 4.8 / 5.0
4.8
I do know I preserve saying it, however Blue Bloods’ cancelation is the worst tv information in a very long time.
We’re greater than midway via the ultimate batch of episodes now.
Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 15 had every little thing that made me fall in love with this present after which some. I don’t know what I’m going to do with my Friday nights after December 13.
Joe Simply Had To Be Joe On Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 15
I’m nonetheless hoping that Joe Hill will finish the collection by changing into a totally accepted member of the Reagan household.
To me, closure about his father’s loss of life means the complete household embraces Joe and vice versa.
I’m unsure that can occur now, although.
Danny saying Joe was an ideal detective was a step in the precise course, however Joe did the identical annoying factor he at all times does that makes his uncles dislike working with him, and that always carries over into their private relationship.
Joe’s cussed streak is much extra annoying on him than it’s on Frank or Erin. He at all times feels a have to work the case his means, though his means goes to get somebody killed.
He was disobeying Danny’s orders whereas Danny was within the room. Sheesh.
It’s taken me a very long time to heat as much as Joe due to that.
Possibly if he’d been a part of Blue Bloods from the start, I’d shrug it off as Joe being Joe, however as is, he comes throughout as disrespectful, hotheaded, and annoying.
He was much less so than typical this time, although, so possibly there’s hope for him but, particularly since Danny appears to have gained respect for Joe.
Erin: Need to help?
Danny: I’ll. Proper after a drink.
Henry: You continue to labored up about working with Joe?
Danny: I’m not labored up. He’s an ideal detective, good child. It’s simply he appears extra into making the collar and never a lot into the folks concerned.
Moreover, Joe did save Danny’s life throughout the climactic scene. I’ll by no means perceive why the ten million police procedurals on TV insist on having cops go into conditions with out correct backup, however Joe’s taking pictures the unhealthy man who was attempting to kill Danny has to rely for one thing!
I’m wondering why Joe wasn’t on the Reagan household dinner, although. He’s appeared at the previous few, however his absence this time allowed Danny and Erin to speak about Danny working with him.
Though Joe’s working with Danny was vital, I’d have cherished for Baez to have been concerned on this storyline on Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 15.
I at all times need extra Baez on basic rules, however on this case, her inclusion would have made sense.
She may need been in a position to assist with anybody who solely spoke Spanish and presumably give some perception into the tradition among the many compañeros, which may have made it simpler to unravel this case.
Erin’s Case Demonstrated Why She Ought to Have Run For DA After All
Crawford was past annoying.
I perceive that she has instances to shut and is the boss. I additionally perceive that she resents Erin’s relationship with the Reagans.
Moreover, her snide remarks pointed to 1 factor: she’s targeted solely on uncooked numbers and doesn’t get why anybody would hassle to care in regards to the human beings concerned within the instances they shut.
Erin is an ADA as a result of she desires to get justice for victims, not merely so she will brag about what number of instances she’s closed.
Crawford’s opinion that Erin shouldn’t care about Del as a result of she’s not a social employee aggravated me.
It added insult to damage that she visited him within the hospital after he risked his life and acted like she thought he was a hero all alongside. GO AWAY.
New York Metropolis wants extra folks like Erin and fewer like Crawford.
I REALLY hope that is her final look. With solely three episodes left, I’m not within the temper to waste any extra airtime on her.
A New Recruit Was Fired For Saving a Life On Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 15
Even Crawford didn’t make me as indignant as the best way new recruit Jaylen was handled.
He charged at a robber who was holding a lady hostage, saving her life in addition to Eddie and Badillo’s lives, solely to be kicked out of the academy as a result of non-graduates aren’t purported to become involved in life-threatening conditions.
In what world does that make sense?
I perceive that recruits shouldn’t enter harmful conditions as a result of they don’t seem to be but geared up to deal with them.
Nevertheless, on this case, the man saved somebody’s life and the state of affairs possible would have ended badly if he had not.
Jamie was keen to ship Eddie to the hospital so that they each may take into consideration find out how to deal with the report (although he ended up submitting it early). Why not say within the report that Jaylen was performing as a bystander, not in any skilled capability?
Downside solved. As Eddie identified, if Jaylen had been a non-public citizen, he’d be hailed as a hero.
Jaylen’s termination was in all probability extra as a result of the fool husband sued than the rest.
That’s doubly unfair as a result of Jamie uncovered proof that the complete lawsuit was fraudulent and the lady Jaylen saved had torn her ACL months in the past.
It’s nice that he can nonetheless work in Nassau — I suppose that doesn’t rely as being out of residency — however the thanks he obtained for saving a life shouldn’t have been a frivolous lawsuit and the lack of his place within the academy.
I hated that Jamie and Eddie obtained right into a combat over it, however Eddie was proper. Jamie shouldn’t have filed that report with out speaking to her.
Typically Jamie is an excessive amount of of a straight arrow for his personal good. He takes after Frank that means.
No, Sid Isn’t Leaving, However Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 15 Made It Appear Like He Was
Frank struggled with what to do when he realized Sid was dwelling 80 miles away when cops had been purported to dwell in New York Metropolis. When he confronted Sid about it, Sid admitted he was able to retire.
That appeared like a solution to what’s going to occur to one of many characters once we get to the finale in just a few weeks, however then Frank determined to unofficially permit cops to dwell the place they needed.
Whereas the residency debate was attention-grabbing, I used to be irritated by the Sid state of affairs.
It may have been solved simply if Sid had spoken to Frank about what was occurring within the first place.
Frank tries to do what’s proper and generally can adhere too rigidly to the principles.
Nevertheless, does ANYONE assume that if Sid had come to him and advised him that his mom was dying and he wanted to be upstate along with her, Frank would have responded by firing him for not staying within the metropolis?
In fact not. It will have ended the identical means it did, with Frank agreeing to look the opposite means on this, solely with out the additional drama that took up a 3rd of Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 15.
It’s not shocking that Frank would make an exception with out admitting that’s what he was doing.
Individuals usually mistake Frank dwelling by his personal ethical code for being so rigidly rule-bound that empathy and humanity exit the window.
However that’s a misunderstanding.
Frank lives by HIS values, and more often than not, these values embrace following the principles. Typically, although, his worth system requires him to place an even bigger trigger forward of the letter of the regulation, and that’s what occurred right here.
As for the residency requirement itself, I agree with Frank and Jamie that cops must dwell within the neighborhoods they patrol.
I feel that a minimum of a number of the rigidity between police and residents comes from cops who dwell elsewhere and whose solely interactions with residents are when they’re pulling them over or arresting them.
When cops dwell in the neighborhood, they develop into neighbors in addition to cops, and once they and the residents of a neighborhood get to know one another, either side see one another’s humanity.
Moreover, Eddie’s feedback about dwelling paycheck to paycheck and Garrett’s criticism in regards to the optics of Frank dwelling in an enormous home whereas the rank-and-file battle to pay lease aren’t indicative of an issue with NYPD coverage.
It’s an issue with the excessive price of dwelling in New York Metropolis, and somebody wants to speak to Mayor Chase about specializing in doing one thing about that as an alternative of losing time with insurance policies that don’t do something for anybody.
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