Hey CBS: Don’t kill ‘Blue Bloods,’ says our TV critic

We all know about TV shows that are ready for the glue factory. Yet nine episodes into this 14th and final season, “Blue Bloods” sure doesn’t look like glue bait.

Maybe it’s pride of work, or some of that doughty Reagan spirit that refuses to bow low before the dictates of TV executives 3,000 miles away. Maybe it just doesn’t like glue. But there’s something about this last season — something that also refuses to bow low (the midseason finale arrives Friday at 10 p.m. on WCBS/2).

There hasn’t been a sense of defiance these past nine episodes so much as a sense of resolve, or that specific “Blue Bloods”’ mindset that says this is the Job and this is how we’ve always done it, with dignity intact and heads held high. In an early episode and rare scene actually freighted with an intimation of mortality — “Blue Bloods’” own perhaps — Frank (Tom Selleck) asked daughter Erin (Bridget Moynahan), “Don’t we try to remember why we fought every fight that got sent our way?” What will fans remember of this last season, this last fight?

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2 thoughts on “Hey CBS: Don’t kill ‘Blue Bloods,’ says our TV critic

  1. I always enjoyed Blue Bloods and if not good enough for you, think again because
    The love of family is priceless and beautiful removing it is Big ” Mistake”
    That’s what a family is all about, Togetherness and Love. And at the end of the day we look back and feel the Love.
    B L

  2. I always enjoyed Blue Bloods and if not good enough for you, think again because
    The love of family is priceless and beautiful removing it is Big ” Mistake”
    That’s what a family is all about, Togetherness and Love. And at the end of the day we look back and feel the Love.
    B L
    No that wasn’t me

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