Blue Bloods Season 13 Episode 1 Review: Keeping the Faith

It is a quickly altering world, and everybody’s feeling the strain.

Blue Bloods Season 13 Episode 1 gave us the cops’ perspective on the fashionable world’s elevated cynicism and excessive crime charges. That is nothing new for this sequence, however this time was totally different.

Frank took his buddy, the Archbishop, on a strolling tour of town to get a civilian’s perspective, however he primarily discovered that everyone- himself included- had little religion in human beings to do the appropriate factor.

It is onerous to say the place Frank goes from right here. His strolling tour was a pleasant homage to Teddy Roosevelt, however how can he enhance issues for his cops and the residents they defend now that he is realized that the world is scarier and extra cynical than ever earlier than?

The sergeant on the precinct, ignoring the biker gangs, summed issues up succinctly when he defined that the cops do not need to shoot civilians or be shot at themselves.

On the one hand, it is important for cops to not use their weapons as their first line of protection. On the opposite, these cops’ fears have been inflicting them to permit a biker gang to intimidate them proper outdoors their very own precinct.

Frank must attempt to brainstorm options together with his staff. Police cowering away from imposing legal guidelines, particularly outdoors their very own home, is a poor precedent to set.

Jamie: What is the level of arresting anybody in the event that they’re simply going to return out on the road to commit extra crimes? This place is changing into a revolving door for these criminals!
Erin: I anticipate this of Danny, not of you.
Jamie: Why? As a result of I am the quiet one who stands idly by and says nothing whereas the justice system is falling aside? Possibly I do not need to be the quiet one anymore.

This case was analogous to the one which obtained Jamie shot: bail reform.

In actuality, research have proven that re-arrest and crime charges are not any larger below new bail legal guidelines than earlier than, however on Blue Bloods, violent criminals are consistently being launched, solely to commit new and worse crimes.

Jamie’s frustration was comprehensible. The perp was let loose on a ridiculous technicality, solely to show round and virtually shoot Eddie. Later, after all, that very same perp would kill his personal spouse and shoot Jamie.

Jamie: What is the level of arresting anybody in the event that they’re simply going to return out on the road to commit extra crimes? This place is changing into a revolving door for these criminals!
Erin: I anticipate this of Danny, not of you.
Jamie: Why? As a result of I am the quiet one who stands idly by and says nothing whereas the justice system is falling aside? Possibly I do not need to be the quiet one anymore.

Erin’s insistence that she might do nothing as a result of it wasn’t her case wasn’t reducing it. Possibly she could not do a lot, however she got here off as not caring in regards to the havoc the perp was persevering with to wreak.

I beloved Jamie declaring he was uninterested in being quiet about issues that mattered, too. I am proper with him on that journey, and I hope he continues to face up for what he believes in regardless of this incident.

Jamie’s capturing was some of the dramatic subplots the sequence has had shortly. I knew Will Estes wasn’t leaving the sequence. Nonetheless, everybody’s worry for Jamie was uncooked and lifelike, and Eddie’s panicked efficiency was so compelling I did not care that it used that silly trope of somebody working into the working room to cry over the affected person.

Eddie’s causes for wanting Jamie to remain on the 2-9 have been strong,  however he is proper: they can not work collectively for his or her entire careers.

Eddie: I do not need to go away the 2-9.
Jamie: I do know. Which is why I’ll put in for a switch.
Eddie: I do not need that. I need to work wherever you’re employed.
Jamie: We will not work collectively our entire careers

There’ll at all times be some captain or commander insisting they alter it up, and dealing collectively has made it more durable for Jamie to realize the respect of the cops below his command.

He is needed to repeatedly show that he would not give his spouse favorable therapy, and the couple has had points with Eddie feeling micromanaged or that Jamie questions her skilled judgment.

For all of those causes, it is past time for one among them to maneuver on from the 2-9.

Eddie remains to be Jamie’s emergency contact and shall be notified shortly if something occurs. She wasn’t with him when he was shot this time, in order that argument would not fairly maintain water.

That is more likely to be a troublesome adjustment for her, however it’ll be good for his or her careers and marriage.

Baez: I am not fearful about childcare or sleepless nights. I am fearful about when she’s older. How am I ever going to let her of anyplace with out me on this world, particularly realizing what we all know?
Danny: By then we’ll have a 24 hour element on her and we’ll put chips in her telephone to trace the place she is.

Baez additionally feels just like the world is harmful; she’s already fearful about granting her toddler independence when the kid turns into a preteen or older.

I am curious whether or not this shall be a theme all through the season. This primary episode definitely set the tone of cops coping with change in an unsure world!

Apparently, the case of the hour linked all people; this was totally different than the standard 4 or 5 separate tales we normally get.

Anthony usually works with Danny to discover a witness or a suspect, normally to comedian impact. The fellows did not have time to tease one another for as soon as, which felt odd.

It was an odd coincidence that the man Jamie arrested, and the DA’s workplace put again on the streets was additionally the highest suspect in Danny’s case, however it labored.

What the heck is occurring with Erin and Jack?

He was pushing onerous for that lunch, so it was obvious he wished one-on-one time with Erin. He is made it clear a number of instances earlier than that he would like to reconcile together with her; why was she shocked that he did not need to distance himself from her whereas she’s working for governor?

The media could also be obsessive about candidates’ personal lives, however I believe the larger subject is that Jack has a fame as a sleazy lawyer.

Gossip about him and Erin reconciling will not make an enormous impression. But when Erin’s opponent suggests she’s going to reward corruption due to the corporate she retains, that would sink her marketing campaign.

I used to be glad for an additional Joe Hill look, and this one was particularly shifting.

Joe wasn’t a part of the household when his father died, so he would not know firsthand the grief and ache all of them carry. That made his upset over Jamie’s capturing and his dialog with Danny about Joe Sr.’s dying far more poignant.

Danny, particularly, is a trooper, having weathered each his brother’s and his spouse’s deaths lately.

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Blue Bloods airs on CBS on Fridays at 10 PM EST / PST

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