I had very mixed feelings about the tv show Blue Bloods…

I liked the show in the early years. The premise was hokey--a multigenerational family in law enforcement, including two Commissioners, a detective, a rookie, and a powerful Assistant DA who have family Sunday dinner each week -- but an interesting theatrical device to give multiple views on dealing with a given story line that usually was aligned with events in the news. Granted, there was no truly liberal, progressive viewpoint at the table (what would you expect when the family business is law enforcement), but there was plenty of tension from four generations spanning the worst of old school policing to current policing to glimpses of potential police reform, and a prosecutor constantly challenging their methods and dealing with the political realities of her position.

It lost its way in the last few years, imho. As if they had fired the writers and had AI repackaging sequels of the same old stories. They got a brief fresh burst of creativity when Jamie got a female cop partner and wound up marrying her, and having to deal with the workplace issues around that. But I stopped watching about four years ago. Then again, it may be because I lost my partner, a former law enforcement chaplain, who was a big fan of the show. Watching it together and listening to her point out what rang true and what didn't was an added pleasure.

Donnie Wahlberg is a much better actor than his brother Mark, and Boston is his home turf. But politically, I would suspect a further swing right if anything in the sequel. Erin's political issues, given the ongoing turmoil of NYC politics in the Mayoral and DA offices, would be a far more interesting sequel, imho. Or Jamie and his wife, although the actor who plays Jamie is primarily a theatrical actor and only agreed to do this TV show because he was intrigued with the original concept.

I've seen it a bunch of times but not recently. My grandfather liked it, but that was ten years ago. As for how I liked it ... Eh ... Not my fav crime drama. I like NCIS (and spin-off's) and Law and Order: Special Victims and Chicago PD ... all much better than Blue Bloods ... But you are right, the Sunday dinner scenes were cool.

I enjoyed the show..and watched it all the way through. The only real flat spot for me was Franks religious faith. Although casting Stacey Keach as the Bishop was masterful..😷

I only saw a few episodes when I was a teen I thought it was interesting I did not know it lasted for 14 seasons that's interesting.

Tones:
D Wahlberg is politically aligned with Magnum PI . However it may depend on the who the writers and producers of the spin off are.

I didn't like it. I characters were overly one-dimensional (which is the writers fault not the actors) the black-and-white- moral sales pitch was silly and T Selleck's character as an alcoholic was oddly celebrated as a family value as opposed to being used as an opportunity to add complexity to the character

I watched it for a few seasons, then abruptly stopped watching it. Can't remember exactly why. I think I just got bored with it.

Loved it…..will watch the spin off.
Wonder if it will get as many spin offs as NCIS?
Could see Erin getting her own show.
It is CBS after all!

I liked it ,i thought it was an interesting show. :)

I. LOVED. IT!
It will be interesting to see what the BS boy can do with it!

I never watched it.

I liked it. Only watched it at work, really.

Last I heard of Tom Selleck he was using precious town water on his avocado farm during a drought

I never watched a single episode of all those crime shows yet I must have seen them all just by zapping through all those garbage TV channels that feature those cheap shows. One tenth of a second here, a half a second there and before you know it, you have seen the equivalent of an entire season...

Bridget dated Tom Brady for a while.