Blue Bloods (TV Series) Friendly Fire (2011) User Reviews

They Don't Make them Better than This ****

[edwagreen · 1 October 2011]

Superb episode where Danny is having a bad day. A tiff with his wife and his workers in the precinct,this all leaves him is a miserable mood. When he is out in the field, he is as nasty as well and this soon leads to a tragic shooting of a fellow officer.

The one thing that Danny has going for him is that the officer hadn't identified himself as a cop. Despite this, it begins to appear that Danny's erratic behavior led to the tragedy and Danny is placed on modified duty.

A true cop through and through, Danny goes through the steps of what led to the tragedy and it all comes out very clearly why the cop didn't identify himself.

You can imagine what pop Tom Selleck has to go through as Police Commissioner with stories swirling around the shooting. The ending is heartwarming which shows the camaraderie among officers. That hospital scene will tug at you.

Usually idealistic, this Blue Bloods required too much suspension of disbelief

[TeOfLeDiKi · 27 October 2011]

I like Blue Bloods, sort of. From the very beginning, it presented itself as an idealized version of the NYPD where corruption is swiftly rooted out and punished, and a multi-generational family of cops runs the gamut from rookie beat cop to decorated detective to dead hero son to retired police commissioner to current police commissioner.

In this idealized world, this multigenerational family is immune to the failings of normal human beings, and apparently also immune to rules and regulations of real city agencies. I'd like to know in what world a detective under investigation himself would be allowed to investigate the very shooting for which he is under investigation? It's such a clear and obvious violation of conflict of interest laws, it's laughable. And when the noble Police Commissioner gruffly announces that the decision to punish or not punish the detective in question, his equally noble son, for violating the terms of his modified duty, the viewer is led to believe that the Commissioner will do the right thing and suspend him.

But no. The noble detective son is restored to full duty.

I want to like this show more than I do. But this episode was annoying for the fact that Danny should have been suspended for violating the terms of his duty. I know most viewers loved the fact that Danny got away with it because he's written as such a good guy, but his actions were reckless and arrogant. There's nothing noble or ideal or good about what he did, and it would have been so much more noble had his commissioner-father done the right thing and required him to pay for his actions.