On condition that Blue Bloods solely ended a few weeks forward of the 2025 TV schedule’s arrival, it’s comprehensible that longtime followers should still have every kind of emotions in regards to the Reagan household not being a Friday evening mainstay on CBS. The identical goes for among the present’s stars, a lot of which spoke out towards the community’s cancellation resolution, and even those that weren’t round because the early days, corresponding to sequence vet Steve Schirripa, had bittersweet emotions about bowing out with Season 14.
One of the crucial profitable methods Blue Bloods gained and maintained its large viewers was by way of the closeness of the Reagan household, and thru the episode-capping meals round Frank Reagan’s dinner desk. And the way in which Schirripa places it, the solid members had been certainly familial in the way in which they welcomed him into the fold upon the Season 6 arrival of his character, the retired detective Anthony Abetemarco.
Talking with Folks, Schirripa mirrored on the purpose when he joined the present in a recurring capability in 2015, saying:
It was a really close-knit group, actually, a pleasant group of individuals. I did not know anybody, so it’s unusual if you’re stepping in and everybody is aware of one another, and also you’re the brand new man. However they handled me like one among them from day one.
The actor revealed that he was initially signed on to seem in simply two Season 6 episodes, however ultimately popped up in a whopping 146 installments after producers inquired about his curiosity in sticking round. Fortunately, he was certainly , and the remainder is broadcast historical past.
After all, issues might need gone otherwise had Steve Schirripa been shunned, or simply not felt as welcomed generally by his fellow solid members. However that fortunately wasn’t the way it went down, and the Sopranos vet shared that his co-stars’ kindness prolonged past his extra restricted appearances in early eps, and lasted all through his whole run. As he put it:
I principally labored with Bridget and Donnie, however I wound up working ultimately with everybody at one level, in order that was good. I like working with Bridget, she’s a terrific, underrated actress who was simply great to work with, actually good, and Donnie is a good man and a number of enjoyable.
In spite of everything of his years on Blue Bloods and within the boy band New Children on the Block, I’d be shocked to listen to about Donnie Wahlberg being impolite to anyone, so it undoubtedly tracks that he was a gent to work with. And I undoubtedly agree with Steve Schirripa’s opinion that Bridget Moynihan is underrated, and if there’s something to have a good time in regards to the crime drama’s endgame, it’s the hope that Moynihan lands one other equally celebrated position. (Wahlberg, in the meantime, is at present internet hosting HLN’s Very Scary Folks, which airs Sunday nights.)
Although he might not be seen on the small display screen together with his former Blue Bloods co-stars, he addressed the truth that he’s already reconnected with a few them within the months since filming wrapped up. As he put it:
I simply noticed Bridget on the Knicks recreation, and I talked to Will Estes the opposite day. We keep up a correspondence.
Blue Bloods’ finale fairly presumably introduced within the largest viewing viewers for any sequence that led to 2024, at the least in the case of broadcast networks. (Yellowstone’s sequence finale almost doubled the CBS drama’s numbers.) So right here’s hoping community execs can determine a method to deliver at the least a few of these characters again to the small display screen sooner or later, even when a smaller ensemble is required to maintain wage prices down.
For now, everything of Blue Bloods’ run is offered to stream with a Paramount+ subscription, from the early Abetemarco-free years all the way in which as much as the ultimate Regan dinner scene.