Once again, it feels like the writers are scraping the bottom of the barrel to come up with decent and credible storylines.
Blue Bloods has often been about the Reagans doing the right thing. While this is understandable, it is often unrealistic.
We have one decent storyline in Danny and Baez trying to catch a serial killer of transgenders.
We have a so-so storyline in Frank Reagan having to defend Gormley from civilian complaints going back twenty-five years thanks to a judge order to make civilian complaints public, thus putting Gormley's actions under fire.
And last, we have bad storyline in a thug who enjoys sucker-punching cops. Had this been an NYPD Blue episode, or even a Chicago P. D. episode, that thug would have been hauled into a cell and beaten until he was crying. The ludicrous idea that this guy punches two cops (including Eddie), and then it takes two days for Jamie to resolve the situation? No way! Cops would have been on the street and hauled the guy in as soon as it happened. This episode is an insult to police officers everywhere in making people believe that they don't have each other's backs.
The story editing is terrible in this episode, and I'm not even going to bring up the Erin-Governor-DA story, which has already become tiresome, tedious, and unimaginative.
I've been watching this show since it began, and this season has made it abundantly clear that the show has had a nice, strong run, but it's now time to end it. All you have to do is go back to the first five seasons to remember when the show had real quality and substance.
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