Blue Bloods Season 7

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My wife and I were hooked on Blue Bloods from Season 1 Episode 1.

We loved the family dynamic, all of the great Tom Selleck looks and lines, the energy and sass from Donnie Wahlberg, etc. Blue Bloods is a remarkable show.

But what we were especially drawn to were the family meals – all of which were blatantly Catholic. The full nine yards. Prayers. Jesus’ name. God talk. Signs of the cross, etc. This was an undeniably Irish Catholic family.

All of that is gone in Season 7. They still have family meals. But they’re not the same family at those meals. If memory serves, not one prayer was spoken at the dinner table in Season 7. The spiritual side of this family is missing.

In its place are more cop-like stories, more blood and guts, and chases and shootings.

But the glue that held this family together – the strong spirituality from their Catholic faith – is gone.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not Catholic. But I know a bold, unique TV family when I see one. Their prayers around the dinner table set that family – and this show – apart from all others.

I miss that side of the Reagan family. I thought it was important, and added much to who they are as people.

Another aspect to this season that I find frustrating is the relationship between Office Eddie Janko and Officer Jamie Reagon. If there’s one thing that can kill a show faster than keeping two people apart through faux drama, I don’t know what it is. That was what ended the TV series Castle. The faux drama, the back-and-forth, on/off aspect of the relationship between Richard Castle and Detective Kate Beckett could only be sustained so long. Sloppy writing and really bad plot choices made Castle unwatchable. The writers could write flirtatious. But they couldn’t write for a couple. And when Castle and Beckett became a couple, the show really got unwatchable.

I’m afraid that’s going to happen with Jamie and Eddie. The flirtatiousness has been going on from the get-go. It’s obvious Eddie Janko (played by Vanessa Ray) is incandescent. She lights up the screen, nearly steals every scene. She and Jamie Reagan (played by Will Estes) have a chemistry I haven’t seen in years, perhaps decades. They need to get together. It’s way past the point of no return. If they don’t get together, I’m afraid viewers will be turned off in the same way they were when Castle and Beckett couldn’t get together and stay together.

The plots are getting a bit tired in Season 7. The characters are becoming a bit more like caricatures than characters, especially in the early episodes of Season 7. This season got off to a rough start.

I think Season 8 is going to depend on (a) bringing back the family’s spiritual faith, (b) getting Eddie and Jamie together, and (c) finding fresh ways to engage the regular characters, or find new stories to explore with the less-known characters.

Blue Bloods is our favorite series. We own all the DVDs to date, have purchased and download all episodes of Season 7 to date, and we re-watch everything (starting with Season 1, Episode 1) every couple of months.

So we’re keenly aware of what gives this show its magic. And we’re worried it’s slipping away.

Your mileage may vary.

– Just Bill

Six stars for this series, right back from series one, if that was allowed. We’ve purchased every season, and will continue to do so. The 7th season ramps up the verbal sparing within the family Sunday dining scenes. The youngest “children” of the cop family of four generations have aged enough to have some jabbing lines of their own. Witty, and often funny, always thought provoking. I missed the prayer, they seemed to have stopped doing a prayer. Perhaps a political correction.
The seventh series really ramps up the emotion among the family. The cops get involved personally. Repeatedly. Same goes for the attorney daughter. The family lives continue to interplay during “office hours” as well as in their personal lives. There’s a kiss not to be missed, who?, I’ll not tell. It can’t be said this is the best series yet, because they have all been outstanding. Series seven simply continues the fast action, exciting plots, and excellent writing of the lives of this NYC family. Although so much happens in each episode, viewers know it is beyond normalcy, but the actors in this series make it seem realistic.
And the brilliant performances is something the whole family can watch together. That’s refreshing.

– Harold Wolf

Episode Four of the new Season Seven puts the Reagans collectively in a number of moral conundrum boxes. LT Gormley, one of Police Commissioner Reagan’s assistants, is badly beaten by a group of young Russian gangsters, and no one sees anything. A gang shooting in the projects has Danny looking for witness testimony from a crippled former gangster. Jamie and his partner witness the Feds pushing around an immigrant. And one of Danny’s kids faces the choice of standing up to be a witness to a beating at school. The episode is topical and tough, the solutions take awhile to take shape, and not everything works out as expected, in best Blue Bloods fashion. The episode and Season Seven are highly recommended to fans of the series.

– HMS Warspite

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Actors: Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Dubbed: English
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 6
Rated: NR Not Rated
Studio: Paramount
DVD Release Date: August 22, 2017
ASIN: B071G57MRH