Blue Bloods (TV Series) Friends in Need (2016) User Reviews

A lot of mentoring

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 17 March 2017]

My favorite semi-regular on Blue Bloods Steven Schirripa gets a prominent place in this story. Bridget Moynahan's favorite investigator in the DA's office has a cousin who is being accused of swindling police and using Schirripa's good name to do it. All I can say is Anthony DeSando as the cousin is some piece of work and when Schirripa finds out all hell breaks loose.

Tom Selleck has a confrontation with a visiting member of a British police delegation over terrorist policy. Alex Kingston for reasons I still can't fathom decided to get good and personal over this. This is the weakest part of this episode.

But the strongest part is Donnie Wahlberg pulling strings to get the son of a man he served in Iraq with over to brother Will Estes's precinct. Wahlberg as we know bends a lot of rules, but he correctly figures that Estes with his boy scout reputation might be the best to mentor him.

Michael Drayer is going to need a lot of mentoring, he's a hothead always with something to prove. That's a future that remains in doubt and the Reagan brothers strongly disagree in this one.

Good story except for Alex Kingston portion.

**1/2

[edwagreen · 6/10 · 12 March 2016]

Shocked that real life ultra-conservative top cop would agree to the script in this episode. By far, the weakest of this usually outstanding show.

The sidebar story of a British woman from London who is a police official there comes to N.Y. and almost immediately alienates Frank. The nature and deep importance of what their controversy regarding terror is not explained enough and having dinner to calm the air doesn't exactly make this coming to a fitting conclusion.

When Anthony's cousin is involved in a scam to defraud cops, Erin and the former spring into action to bring his cousin to justice.

The outrage of the evening is that reckless police officer who injures a young girl while chasing after a hoodlum and the unnecessary shooting that occurs thanks to him at an attempted bank robbery. While there were no fatalities in either incident, this cocky guy has no business whatsoever being on the police force and the ending where it looks like the guy will be given a second chance fully misses the point. The police do an absolutely fine job but keeping this guy on the force does a disservice to the people in blue. Is it because that race wasn't involved means he should stay is beyond belief.

Jamie is Customer service

[Originator1994 · 5/10 · 3 August 2017]

There was a lot of animosity between Danny and Jamie ( kiddie names not adult) and it gives reason for pause that closer to the end of that story line is that Danny is making up the reason for sending the rookie to brothers precinct . For most of the episode he is in an argumentative mood regarding Jamie and the rookie and THEN he comes up with the excuse that he sent him over so he could get the "best" training . A ruse if I ever saw one. It appears he was trying to smooth over things with his brother and trying to look like he really appreciates how his brother works. Phony on Danny's part.

The argument at the dinner goes to show that not everyone is cut out to bend the rules and skirt the law. There are not enough stripes to go out and someone has to do the patrol part . Jamie seems suited to the position, he has great customer service skills and people skills and the NYPD is lucky to have him there whereas Danny is a cowboy who breaks the rules about every episode and if this were the real world, he wouldn't have lasted past the first several episodes because he would have been given the verbal warning, written warning and Internal Affairs review by an outside agency and would have been given his walking papers. He has no people skills , is abrupt with everyone and that in itself would not last with the his peers and superiors. Danny's character is not what law enforcement agencies are looking for and is not what the real world is about .