I’m nonetheless not over Blue Bloods’ cancelation.
I haven’t deleted the sequence finale from my DVR and have watched bits and items of it over once more, and may safely say it was among the finest episodes in a season stuffed with them.
Our Blue Bloods Season 14 report card considers that this farewell season didn’t really feel like a present going off the air—and that the ultimate episode ought to have been a season finale, not a sequence finale.
Whereas a number of episodes had a sillier premise than I would love (I’m hardly ever a fan of Danny partnering up with a random visitor star who annoys the hell out of him), each episode provided stable tales and the household values that made Blue Bloods such a beautiful sequence.
Even the worst episode of Blue Bloods Season 14 was a few of the finest that tv has to supply. What number of reveals can say that?
Finest Episode – “From Dangerous To Worse”
Possibly it was as a result of understanding the sequence was virtually over made me recognize every new episode extra, however the second half of Blue Bloods Season 14 gave the impression to be even greater high quality than common, making it virtually unimaginable to decide on one episode that stood out greater than the remaining.
Each the season opener and the sequence finale have been good, and I additionally virtually selected “No Good Deed” as a result of I loved Danny and Joe Hill lastly turning into a formidable group.
I finally went with “From Dangerous To Worse” (Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 13) for a number of causes. Henry’s story, amongst different issues, scored excessive marks on our Blue Bloods Season 14 report card.
Whereas Jamie will at all times be my favourite character, Henry is a detailed second, and he’s been severely misused through the ultimate season.
For essentially the most half, Henry solely appeared on the dinner desk, and even within the finale his whole function was an advice-giver.
Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 13 was the ultimate episode to provide Henry a starring function, and it was a robust one.
The protection had known as Henry as a witness in a case that Erin was prosecuting, and she or he was damage that her grandfather hadn’t advised her he could be working in opposition to her.
Erin needed to recuse herself from the case since she couldn’t cross-examine her grandfather, which annoyed her. Finally, Henry got here by, utilizing his time on the stand to decimate the protection’s case as a substitute of supporting it.
Whereas there have been some issues with this premise — witness lists are offered to opposing counsel upfront, and the protection would hopefully vet its witnesses higher — this episode nonetheless will get excessive marks on the Blue Bloods Season 14 report card as a result of Henry and Erin’s battle was such an excellent instance of what makes Blue Bloods particular.
It’s normally Frank that Erin butts heads with when their job duties put them on reverse sides of a difficulty, whereas Henry tries to persuade the 2 to cease being so cussed and deal with one another just like the household they’re.
This time, Erin had an issue with Henry, and his triumph when he pulled one over on each the protection and his granddaughter was well-earned.
Henry additionally stood as much as Erin in a number of scenes, making it clear as soon as once more he was not a feeble previous man who didn’t know what was occurring.
Moreover, this episode featured Mira Sorvino as a brand new hearth commissioner, and she or he had nice chemistry with Tom Selleck. If there had been a Season 15, I’d prefer to assume there would have been much more of her.
Worst Episode – “Two Of A Sort”
I get that Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 9 had a function, however I didn’t just like the Joe/Jamie story.
They have been each most likely tipsy after they obtained into that fistfight (not that that’s an excuse), however Frank was proper that the 2 of them combating mirrored badly on the NYPD.
Worse, Jamie’s conduct was out of character.
Whereas he has a mood and may get bodily when it will get the higher of him, he’s normally much more level-headed than that, and I didn’t purchase that he’d get right into a schoolyard-like brawl together with his nephew.
Although this episode will get low marks on the Blue Bloods Season 14 report card, it isn’t a foul episode, and it DID have some extent.
It wasn’t clear then, however this was the start of the top of Joe Hill’s four-year storyline about his ambivalence towards his Reagan heritage.
Joe didn’t get alongside together with his uncles, particularly Jamie, and it wasn’t actually about work, though his tendency to disregard directions put their circumstances and their security in danger.
For Jamie and Danny, Joe’s presence was a relentless reminder that their brother, Joe’s father, was lifeless, and that was laborious for them to cope with, however after “Two Of A Sort,” that every one started to vary and Joe ended up being built-in into the household by the top of the sequence.
Finest Storyline: Jamie And Eddie Fostering A Traumatized Youngster
Once more, there have been many storylines to select from, and it was laborious to slender it all the way down to the very best as a result of they have been all so good.
However I liked Jamie and Eddie’s story with Amelia on Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 11.
I’ve a particular curiosity in kids who don’t converse due to trauma (which is why I’m additionally throughout Discovered Season 2).
Amelia didn’t speak virtually your entire time she stayed with Jamie and Eddie, and her first phrases have been “thanks” when her grandmother got here to get her.
This emotional storyline was written realistically and with respect slightly than counting on the standard tropes about traumatized kids, which helps it get excessive marks on our Blue Bloods season 14 report card.
Amelia was so candy that I hoped Jamie and Eddie would undertake her.
That didn’t occur, not even after her grandmother let her father kidnap her twice, however it did result in Jamie and Eddie anticipating a child of their very own, so there’s that.
Worst Storyline: Danny Works With An Obnoxious Brit
Danny’s misadventure with a British intelligence agent is typical of what Blue Bloods does as soon as a season, the place Danny has to work with a visitor star, and their mutual hatred turns into mutual respect by the top.
If this weren’t the farewell season, Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 12 wouldn’t have irritated me almost as a lot.
Some folks liked it for its lighthearted contact and the humor in Danny’s interactions with the obnoxious agent from the opposite aspect of the pond.
Nevertheless, this wasted one of many final eight episodes. Baez was sidelined, as she typically is throughout these kind of episodes, in order that was an hour of time we spent with the Brit as a substitute of a beloved character.
Plus, the Brit did the stereotypical factor of appearing superior and searching down on Danny, which was annoying.
Honorable Point out: Badillo’s Demise
Badillo’s loss of life will get excessive marks on our Blue Bloods Season 14 report card as a result of this story was so sturdy.
Cops die on TV on a regular basis (and, sadly, in actual life.) 4 days after Badillo’s loss of life, FBI Season 7 Episode 8 opened its midseason finale with a number of cops being shot to loss of life by a perp.
Nevertheless, on reveals like FBI, a cop’s loss of life is commonly (not at all times!) a plot level. The FBI brokers spring into motion to catch the cop killer earlier than they damage anybody else, however that’s it.
Blue Bloods has by no means achieved issues that approach, and Badillo’s loss of life was no exception.
Badillo was not my favourite character when he first started. He had an perspective towards the Reagans, and he irritated me as a lot as he did Eddie.
Nevertheless, Blue Bloods Season 14 did so much to humanize him in what appeared like standalone episodes.
Some questioned the knowledge of getting tales resembling Badillo smoking pot after which refusing to go to rehab as a result of he needed to spend time with the son of his late accomplice when the sequence was ending quickly.
Though these kind of tales have been stable, they felt like filler when there was so little time left to arrange issues for the finale.
Nevertheless, scenes that includes Badillo have been secretly arrange for the finale.
The fishing scene sticks in my thoughts as a result of it foreshadows Badillo’s loss of life whereas additionally establishing his relationship with this little one, resulting in the emotional second through the funeral when the cops give the little boy Badillo’s cop hat.
Over to you, Blue Bloods fanatics.
What did you consider the ultimate season? (moreover the truth that it shouldn’t be ultimate, clearly…)
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