It’s easy to forget that Blue Bloods isn’t precisely a polouse drama — it’s about politics.
It isn’t fairly like Madam Secretary, which was an overtly political testify with a familial subplot. But it isn’t just about patrolmen solving crimes, either.
Blue Bloods Season 11 Episode 10 reminded us of that delicately when Frank had to engage in all sorts of political manipulations to try to get the governor to sign a police reform invoice without upset his cops.
This kind of thing is exactly what does politics such a dirty word.
I order we lived in a life where the leader of the NYPD could come right out and say that he subscribes particular police reform measures, formulated them in words that see rank-and-file policemen recognise he’s right, and be done with it.
But regrettably, in today’s super polarized nature it doesn’t work that lane, and Frank wouldn’t be able to do any good at all if the police union started pulping for his ousting based on a political disagreement.
So Frank did have to find another way to signal his support of the money to the governor, and using Erin as an intermediary reached the most sense.
I got all that, but I didn’t relatively understand what the governor gained by responding with a more extreme version of the invoice that he knew Frank would never support.
The superintendent hates Frank and hates being depicted as anti-cop because of his support for police reform, so if Frank is willing to support a reform initiative privately, why not take the winning?
Governor: So what does he want me to do? Erin: Ignore what comes out of 1PP about this bill.Governor: That I’m a defund the police guy, another radical leftie that’s part of the Blue Lives Don’t Matter crowd?
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I don’t determine what he accomplished by playing this activity, other than fixing himself feel better about getting one over on those pesky Reagans.
That has been possible to solaced his self-esteem, but it did nothing for his constituents or his bigger interests.
Since Frank wasn’t publically supporting the bill, the superintendent could have made a lot of noise about what a great idea it was and how out of touch police leadership is. THAT would have given him his reprisal on Frank AND advanced his own agenda.
Wouldn’t that have been better than moving over the form of the money that he did?
Of track, boss don’t reach legislation; they sign it. But still, this whole thing didn’t make sense to me.
I did like Erin’s response to the governor’s nonsense.
Governor: I always look at a endowment horse in the mouth, even check its teeth.Erin: Ever come to regret that? When you lend a human a hammer, he remembers that. If you hit him over the front with it, he remembers that more. Governor: Is this is a matter of me extending you up for DA? Erin: You’re on a roll today, aren’t you? My family has its shortcoming just like any clas. Here’s one of them: when we impart our statement, we keep it and we expect others to do the same.
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She point out here that his lack of integrity and how it presented in accordance with him , not on Frank. The governor’s feelings are probably hurt even more now and he’s surely looking for another promotion to pass Erin over for.
It’s a good thing there are no defense attorneys in the family looking for a stay of execution for a buyer because he would probably refuse it merely to spite the Reagans.
I dislike that kind of petty politics, but there it is.
Frank’s discussion with Erin about neither of them being a saint was a great payoff for this whole mess he’d made Erin in the middle of, though.
Frank: When did you figure out I didn’t get where I was by being a saint? Erin: Long before our lunch the other day.Frank: And when did I learn you weren’t a saint? Erin: Probably when I was six.
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I ever desire their leader/ daughter talks, and this was no exception.
And Reagans may ever keep their word, but Frank abruptly qualified that he wouldn’t ask Erin again … unless he Really is necessary to. That wasn’t much of a predict at all!
But let’s talk about the other in-the-middle situation: Jamie and Dion
Dion was right to be disrupt with Jamie throughout most of the hour. Mentorship is supposed to be mentorship. It’s supposed to be guiding the teenager toward a high quality of life than he ought to have been otherwise.
When I signed up for this program, I fantasized I was signing up for mentorship , not to be used as a rat.
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It’s NOT “shouldve been” grilling him about what he knows about gang acts or exercising him as an informal snitch.
Jamie should know better than that. His personality is well-suited for being a real mentor to a kid in need, and it was a shame he had to ruin it with his incessant questioning of Dion.
I’d much preferably have had a story about how Dion was trying to cut ties with the mob but was striving because of his friends making fun of him hanging out with a patrolman, which is what it looked like we were getting during the firstly scene.
And did anyone else think this was going to end with Dion in a body bag?
The kid told Jamie a billion times that he didn’t want to be a snitch, came beat up, and didn’t want to turn against his brother.
Jamie pulped mob members for info about what they were doing to Dion — while they were aware that he was the cop that had Dion’s ear.
He came on strong with Dion about turning on Dante.
And Dante recognized Jamie and said Dion was “dead to him, ” which could easily have been gang speak for him a hit.
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It seemed like Jamie’s investigation was going to lead to Dion’s carnage. I’m glad for Jamie and Dion’s sakes that we didn’t go there, but I’d have desired for Jamie to have to struggle with shame over Dion’s fate!
Meanwhile, there had to have been a better way to investigate the abuse going on in Yolanda’s house than invariably proving up there.
Eddie’s behavior frontier on harassment, and the style she propagandized Yolanda’s employer to admit she was being abused was annoying. That kind of pressure rarely arises in anything other than the survivor shutting down altogether.
Where was that social worker who drive along on Blue Bloods Season 11 Episode 6? THIS would have been a good time to ask for her help.
Finally, I please Danny’s case had been a bit more interesting.
A assassinate of a female gamer involving misogyny and death threats could have been interesting, but it turned into a run-of-the-mill murder case.
The more compelling thing about this one was Sean showing up to help his papa out at the right moment.
Sean has already been accepted into college somewhere, but could he vary his knowledge and go to the police academy instead?
Either nature, I experienced him curing Danny out and would adore more of that!
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I didn’t verify the point to Meghan and Andrea looking alike — and Danny and Baez had encountered Meghan at the outset, so why didn’t they notice this?
Also, shouldn’t Meghan also have been arrested for threatening Ralph with that pierce? Danny said if she attacked him it would ruin their own lives, but nothing happened except she got a hug from him.
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