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 might safely say it was the most effective 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 couple of episodes had a sillier premise than I would really like (I’m not often a fan of Danny partnering up with a random visitor star who annoys the hell out of him), each episode provided strong 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 greatest that tv has to supply. What number of reveals can say that?
Greatest Episode – “From Unhealthy To Worse”
Perhaps it was as a result of figuring out the sequence was nearly over made me recognize every new episode extra, however the second half of Blue Bloods Season 14 appeared to be even greater high quality than typical, making it nearly inconceivable 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 nearly selected “No Good Deed” as a result of I loved Danny and Joe Hill lastly turning into a formidable group.
I in the end went with “From Unhealthy 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 an in depth second, and he’s been severely misused throughout the ultimate season.
For probably the most half, Henry solely appeared on the dinner desk, and even within the finale his whole position was an advice-giver.
Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 13 was the ultimate episode to offer Henry a starring position, and it was a powerful one.
The protection had known as Henry as a witness in a case that Erin was prosecuting, and he or she was damage that her grandfather hadn’t advised her he could be working towards her.
Erin needed to recuse herself from the case since she couldn’t cross-examine her grandfather, which pissed off her. In the end, Henry got here by way of, utilizing his time on the stand to decimate the protection’s case as an alternative of supporting it.
Whereas there have been some issues with this premise — witness lists are offered to opposing counsel prematurely, 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 a fantastic instance of what makes Blue Bloods particular.
It’s often 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 outdated man who didn’t know what was occurring.
Moreover, this episode featured Mira Sorvino as a brand new hearth commissioner, and he or she had nice chemistry with Tom Selleck. If there had been a Season 15, I’d wish to assume there would have been much more of her.
Worst Episode – “Two Of A Form”
I get that Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 9 had a goal, however I didn’t just like the Joe/Jamie story.
They have been each most likely tipsy once 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 habits was out of character.
Whereas he has a mood and might get bodily when it will get the higher of him, he’s often 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.
Regardless that this episode will get low marks on the Blue Bloods Season 14 report card, it isn’t a nasty episode, and it DID have a degree.
It wasn’t clear then, however this was the start of the tip 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 exhausting for them to take care of, however after “Two Of A Form,” that every one started to alter and Joe ended up being built-in into the household by the tip of the sequence.
Greatest Storyline: Jamie And Eddie Fostering A Traumatized Little one
Once more, there have been many storylines to select from, and it was exhausting to slender it right 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 youngsters who don’t communicate due to trauma (which is why I’m additionally throughout Discovered Season 2).
Amelia didn’t discuss nearly the complete 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 moderately than counting on the standard tropes about traumatized youngsters, 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, but it surely 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 tip.
If this weren’t the farewell season, Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 12 wouldn’t have irritated me practically as a lot.
Some individuals liked it for its lighthearted contact and the humor in Danny’s interactions with the obnoxious agent from the opposite facet of the pond.
Nevertheless, this wasted one of many final eight episodes. Baez was sidelined, as she usually is throughout most of these episodes, in order that was an hour of time we spent with the Brit as an alternative of a beloved character.
Plus, the Brit did the stereotypical factor of performing superior and searching down on Danny, which was annoying.
Honorable Point out: Badillo’s Dying
Badillo’s demise will get excessive marks on our Blue Bloods Season 14 report card as a result of this story was so robust.
Cops die on TV on a regular basis (and, sadly, in actual life.) 4 days after Badillo’s demise, FBI Season 7 Episode 8 opened its midseason finale with a number of cops being shot to demise by a perp.
Nevertheless, on reveals like FBI, a cop’s demise is usually (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 executed issues that approach, and Badillo’s demise was no exception.
Badillo was not my favourite character when he first started. He had an angle towards the Reagans, and he irritated me as a lot as he did Eddie.
Nevertheless, Blue Bloods Season 14 did loads to humanize him in what appeared like standalone episodes.
Some questioned the knowledge of getting tales equivalent to 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 associate when the sequence was ending quickly.
Though most of these tales have been strong, 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 demise whereas additionally establishing his relationship with this youngster, resulting in the emotional second throughout 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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