Blue Bloods (TV Series) Hard Bargain (2017) User Reviews

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[edwagreen · 8/10 · 18 February 2017]

Adequate, but not one of the better episodes. Danny is a police officer. How could he let his no good brother-in-law walk into the room and face the ultimate beating he got?

Jamie brings his niece along on an average day and they stumble into a possible abuse case. The mother's denial of being abused of course ends in near tragedy with her teenage son being arrested for severely assaulting the father during one of his rages.

Frank's refusal to hand out personal information about the police comes out of control when it is learned that as a police officer, he had been disciplined for over-reacting during a situation. As always, Frank handles it well and the lawyer for the band guy wrongfully accused comes out of this not exactly smelling like a rose. Interesting to see mob agitation and manipulating people to gain one's objective.

Beliefs have consequences

[Bronco46 · 10/10 · 27 February 2017]

This episode deserves a higher average review. It's not often that a TV series is the era of wildly liberal writers and performers. Show the consequences of thousands of pages rules, regulations, and laws that our police have to deal with every day. In this story a budding liberal idealist college student gets to ride along in a two-officer squad car. And while she thinks she's not getting to see much real police work. She gets her eyes open in what she sees as a situation where police are not protecting a woman from an abusive husband. That young woman learns the reality of all the tinkering that has been going on for decades with the law. And that those sometimes protect and sometimes don't. The Police Chief also finds himself dealing with an ideologue lawyer when one of his officers makes a misidentification that leads to a forceful arrest. A good one. But it's not hard to imagine that any liberals watching this will just see this as excuses for the police mistakes. I would hope that watchers would see the terrible position law enforcement is in. On every contact they have with the public. A very provocative episode.

The In-laws

[bkoganbing · 4/10 · 10 March 2017]

This was a most strange Blue Bloods episode. Not that we all don't have relations like Kevin Dillon who we'd like to see buried. But because this is the Reagan family whose business is law enforcement and they have a code.

Dillon plays Amy Carlson's scapegrace brother, a truly no good kid who was always playing with fire. He put a made Mafia guy into a coma in a brawl over a woman and those guys want retribution. And they make their point by sitting on Danny Reagan's place in surveillance where Dillon has come to visit and really seek refuge.

Try as I may I refuse to see upright Donnie Wahlberg from that most upright of families letting Dillon go knowing that a crime is about to take place. It just doesn't work. Maybe I might do this, but not Danny Reagan or any other of his family.

Unrealistic, with a terrible message added too.

[tsn-48730 · 2/10 · 27 August 2023]

Beyond the extreme stretch of reality in the plot line of Danny actually handing his brother-in-law over to the Mob for a beating that is supposed to be nearly to death. We next see him in the hospital, not even in the ICU, with just a concussion, a collapsed lung and a couple of broken ribs. Besides he looked like he didn't even have a bruise! This was not the "serious conversation" the Mob boss said it was going to be.

Then at dinner Frank compliments Nikki for "at least trying" when the fact is that she had absolutely zero professional training or experience in how to deal with Domestic Abuse and should have stayed out. That was the hard lesson to be taught. Not at least trying and still failing, but knowing what you don't know yet.

Instead of leaving it up to the police and to those other professionals, she instead directly caused a violent man to explode leading to his wife being severely beaten and his son being forced to defend his mother by stabbing him. I don't think "At least you tried, Nikki." is any sort of an intelligent message to send. Whoever wrote that whole plot line blew it.

Than again the Mob one was a real clinker too.

Steven Bauer... What a lousy actor!

[dskaff · 5/10 · 6 June 2023]

Steven Bauer... What a lousy actor! Why does such a great show feel the need to bring in washed up no account actors to fill space. That has to be the reason since they, aside from offering no value to the show, can't act. They are grandstanding under the guise of resurrecting their non existent career. That along with letting a teenager ride along on one of the most dangerous police calls, a domestic, is totally irresponsible. Add that to Danny's useless brother in law endangering his family's life makes this episode one of their worst. Finally defending Nicci's unrealistic views of the world just makes one wonder if the writers were on strike.