Critic’s Score: 4.5 / 5.0
4.5
Blue Bloods did it once more, delivering one other superb episode.
It was exhausting to focus, realizing that right now subsequent week, I might be making an attempt to see by means of my tears nicely sufficient to place my ideas collectively in regards to the sequence finale.
However Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 17 didn’t give off a single signal that it was the penultimate episode. It simply delivered the sturdy tales and household moments that make this present so particular.
Danny Bought Teased At Sunday Dinner Whereas Dealing With A Heartbreaking Case The Relaxation Of The Week
Danny and Baez needed to do some of the tough issues cops ever should do: consolation a girl who misplaced a toddler to suicide.
Gabi’s mom desperately wished to imagine that one of many ladies who bullied her daughter additionally ended her life, and Danny wished nearly as badly to offer that to her.
It received me when he promised the lady that they’d discover Gabi’s killer.
They are saying by no means to make guarantees you’re unsure you possibly can preserve, and finally, what Danny uncovered was proof that Gabi did take her personal life.
At that second, that girl wanted to listen to that he would combat for the reality about her daughter. Sadly, that reality was not what she wished it to be.
It was heartbreaking throughout, and that made me love the household dinner scene much more than common.
Throughout the Reagan household dinner, everybody teased Danny whereas Sean tried to share the excellent news that he had sufficient credit to graduate from NYU a yr early.
Their good-natured teasing gave Danny — and the viewers — a break from this intensely unhappy case, and all of us wanted that greater than ever.
Sean’s information may have made Danny take into consideration the case because the woman killed herself in a dorm room. She lived at a highschool, not a university, however it might have been simple to attract a parallel.
As a substitute, Danny received to have fun his son’s achievement, joke about how a lot NYU value, and take some good-natured teasing in stride.
I agree with Danny {that a} yr overseas most likely wouldn’t value greater than NYU. Manhattan is dear basically and a well known college within the metropolis might be doubly so.
By the best way, as a trans particular person, I really feel obligated to say I used to be not offended by Henry joking that if Sean modified his pronouns, Henry was out.
Some individuals may have taken the joke as being anti-trans, but it surely wasn’t about that in any respect. Everybody was teasing Sean about what his information may very well be, and Henry knew Sean wasn’t going to make that form of announcement.
I additionally imagine that if Sean, or anyone within the household, got here out as transgender or the rest, they’d be beloved simply as a lot, even when their relations didn’t totally perceive, as a result of that’s how the Reagans roll.
I assumed it was unusual that Sean had no thought what was coming subsequent. He needed to have majored in one thing, and most schools supply steerage on determining your first job or your profession path.
When new graduates get nice jobs, it appears good for the college, in order that they’re often keen to assist.
Nonetheless, it was candy that Sean wished his household’s recommendation about determining his future. I ponder if this can play into the finale in any respect or if his early commencement is how his character’s story wraps up.
Eddie and Jamie’s Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 17 Story Was Unusual
I want Eddie and Jamie had been capable of collaborate on the squatter story as an alternative of being at odds.
They don’t get sufficient display time, and with so little left to the sequence, I hated the concept of wasting your minutes on Jamie wanting Eddie to again off his CI and Badillo throwing a match about it.
I received why Badillo was irritated, however his accosting Jamie wasn’t serving to something. It was a fortunate break that the CI received attacked earlier than Badillo stated or did one thing he couldn’t take again.
The entire story was unusual.
By regulation, if somebody has lived someplace for a sure period of time, they’re thought-about a tenant, and Vince didn’t have the cash for an eviction go well with (although he was capable of journey extensively for enterprise.)
Nonetheless, there are tenant rights associations who supply professional bono assist for conditions like this.
Vince: How is it you’re arresting ME?
Eddie: Let’s see, reckless endangerment, felony mischief…
Vince: I used to be hitting the home windows.
Badillo: You would have killed somebody along with your crappy goal.
Throwing rocks at home windows completed nothing besides getting Vince in hassle.
Surprisingly, he disappeared after he requested the cops to assist him till he received his residence again within the final scene.
I’d suppose a man like Vince could be on the precinct each rattling day, bugging them about once they’re going to do one thing about his subject.
Erin Was Smiling, However Did One thing Occur Off-Display screen That Ought to Have Been On-Display screen?
Erin and Jack seem like again collectively until I’m misreading the physique language.
They have been strolling arm in arm with big smiles and Erin stated she wished to set Anthony up with that Deanna particular person as a result of she wished to unfold the wealth now that issues have been going so nicely for her and Jack.
I suppose she may have meant of their friendship, however that doesn’t appear possible.
Erin and Jack being again collectively is massive information, so why did it occur off-screen?
Based mostly on what Bridget Moynahan has stated in interviews, I used to be anticipating them to change into official through the finale, so it was surprising that it appeared to occur when nobody was trying.
That’s additionally not cool.
Little to no hints have been dropped about how Blue Bloods will wrap up, and if Jack and Erin are endgame, we must always have had a couple of household dinner on Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 11 and one joyful stroll within the park.
This could have been an precise story, one we may debate and take sides on all season lengthy.
Erin’s matchmaking story was cute, however I questioned why she had nothing higher to do.
I wasn’t that interested by whether or not she succeeded in pushing Anthony and this girl collectively.
I agreed with Anthony that relationship somebody who was a witness till a couple of minutes in the past was a foul thought, and I might have relatively Erin had yet one more case to cope with earlier than the finale.
Frank Tried To Assist The Governor, However Did He See It?
I’ve by no means been a fan of the governor. His persona appears to be someplace between shady and peculiar.
If he had been keen to co-sponsor laws that Frank wished handed concerning bail reform (or, extra aptly, bail un-reform since Frank needs the looser bail rules reversed once more), Frank ought to have taken the chance to get his priorities in entrance of the legislature.
Frank is the other of political, however I wasn’t certain what he was making an attempt to attain by complaining in regards to the governor’s spouse’s unhealthy habits on Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 17 as an alternative of accepting the assistance.
Nonetheless, that spouse was an issue, getting drunk in public and embarrassing her husband. She deserved to be arrested, and it must be a wake-up name for her, however will or not it’s?
Frank warned the governor that this was the final favor he was doing for him associated to this.
If solely there was one other season, the governor would most likely pop up once more, making an attempt to undo that.
Over to you, Blue Bloods fanatics.
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Blue Bloods’ sequence finale will air on CBS on December 13, 2024 at 10/9c.
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