Blue Bloods (TV Series) Protest Too Much (2013) User Reviews

21st century Bonnie and Clyde

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 1 September 2016]

This episode of Blue Bloods has widower Tom Selleck becoming a romantic figure in the eyes of his kids. But only Bridget Moynahan disapproves as the person he's seeing is another attorney Sarah Wynter who's about her age.

It really is nothing, a mountain is made out of an ant hill, but who knows what might develop in future stories.

But the main focus is on a young male and female pair of bank robbers who have taken the rhetoric of the protesters against banks and have decided direct action is in order. Donnie Wahlberg is having a field day going off against the FBI who had this thing all wrong from the start.

Jessica Rothe the female member is a truly pathetic sort who lived a humdrum life with a lot of debt and the woman's head got filled with romantic notions. She teams up with Jarod Einsohn and he's going to go down fighting against "the establishment" whatever that is at a given moment.

Rothe's performance and Wahlberg's lines against the Feds are the highlight of this episode.

Protest Too Much ***1/2

[edwagreen · 9 March 2013]

The sidebar story here was questionable. Frank falls for an ACLU attorney who is friendly with Erin. Romance seems to be in the air until Erin seems to have put an end to it. This comes as an organization is carrying on that Frank Reagan is running New York City as if it were a police state.

The main story was tragic where a young couple,disillusioned by corporate greed, become the new Bonnie and Clyde by robbing banks. In one of the holdups, the guy's gun goes off and a customer loses a kidney as a result. How could they rob the bank without masks when the girl was a former teller there.

The ending just proves that when the police tell you to drop your gun, you do so. The guy didn't and it cost him dearly.

Need more female perspective, YUCK factor HUGE this episode!

[cmartinelli-12-663160 · 1/10 · 28 May 2014]

Old-man Frank, a powerful man, has a young woman flirt her ass off with him, and he and all the men in his family think it is because of his good-looks and charm? How delusional are they supposed to be?!

The gross age-difference aside, powerful men fall from their positions when they start believing that all those young women are really into them. The young women are into power, into expensive gifts, into help from his powerful friends, into help with their careers, or into sick daddy issues.

Where was the female perspective in this episode? The episode could have been great, instead it was YUCKY. I had to struggle to keep the vomit down whenever they suggested Frank get together with that girl. How delusional can older men be?!!

And the woman who protested, Erin, Frank's daughter, was given such stupid lines and just made to make a sucked-on-a-lemon look all the time. She should have told them the truth, even if it hurt her father: the girl had issues and was manipulative; it would be suicidal for his career; young women are NOT into old men, they are into what they can get out of old men.

More realistic would have been a storyline that revealed the young woman's past conquests of old, powerful men with her usual lines, and that talked of her career advancement due to lovers, that mentioned her expensive gifts, and her bragging with girlfriends about it all, about how gullible and grateful the old men are, and complaining to her friends about making love to old men and their reliance on drugs, etc. to manage it.

Revealing that Frank was being setup, like so many powerful men before him, would have been a more realistic and more interesting storyline than the "Frank gives up a hot, young chick to make his daughter feel better-- wonderful Frank--petty Erin" storyline.