Again, alike to Boardwalk Empire I watched the pilot of Blue Bloods the same night on Sky Atlantic. From the first episode alone, I saw both Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg in new light. More so Selleck due to his past roles in TV and film, he showed a more gruff tough persona alongside Wahlberg as head of a family of cops in the New York Police Department and Commissioner of the department, except his daughter who is a criminal lawyer.
There's always friction between cops and lawyers, more so when they're family. The first case for the first episode, touched a lot of the family members and especially the tough brother played by Wahlberg who bends the rules to get a result, and sister Bridget Moynahan who is the lawyer amongst them all. The question of right and wrong comes up a lot, as siblings argue about how far is far enough, and when crossing the line does not make it right to get a result.
However its not clean cut, right and wrong in this show or for the family. The scale of the show, isn't as big and the show's strengths come from the characters and their personalities. Obviously Selleck is on top form, but so is Bridget Moynahan and Donnie Wahlberg. New brother on the force, the youngest played by Will Estes is still to take up a strong role but he has the opportunity to in later episodes. He is pulled into a side-plot, involving the death of one of the family's siblings, a brother who was also a police officer who was killed in a botched raid.
However Estes is approached by Internal Affairs, and discovers his innocent loved brother was a mole for Internal Affairs to discover those of the "Blue Templers" a secret society within the New York Police Department made up of officers, who watched each other's backs, played by their own rules and now are involved in organised crime of their own stretching from Extortion to Contract Killings. Killers with badges. Estes is given quite a big role to fill, as he works for Internal Affairs to route out those of the "Blue Templers" and possibly discover his own blood within their ranks, possibly his own brother or father.
This is the side-plot that really has pulled me in, involving conspiracy and corruption within the ranks of the police force. Hopefully as we delve further into the series, this story will be more enforced, as characters become stronger and so do their surroundings.
There's always friction between cops and lawyers, more so when they're family. The first case for the first episode, touched a lot of the family members and especially the tough brother played by Wahlberg who bends the rules to get a result, and sister Bridget Moynahan who is the lawyer amongst them all. The question of right and wrong comes up a lot, as siblings argue about how far is far enough, and when crossing the line does not make it right to get a result.
However its not clean cut, right and wrong in this show or for the family. The scale of the show, isn't as big and the show's strengths come from the characters and their personalities. Obviously Selleck is on top form, but so is Bridget Moynahan and Donnie Wahlberg. New brother on the force, the youngest played by Will Estes is still to take up a strong role but he has the opportunity to in later episodes. He is pulled into a side-plot, involving the death of one of the family's siblings, a brother who was also a police officer who was killed in a botched raid.
However Estes is approached by Internal Affairs, and discovers his innocent loved brother was a mole for Internal Affairs to discover those of the "Blue Templers" a secret society within the New York Police Department made up of officers, who watched each other's backs, played by their own rules and now are involved in organised crime of their own stretching from Extortion to Contract Killings. Killers with badges. Estes is given quite a big role to fill, as he works for Internal Affairs to route out those of the "Blue Templers" and possibly discover his own blood within their ranks, possibly his own brother or father.
This is the side-plot that really has pulled me in, involving conspiracy and corruption within the ranks of the police force. Hopefully as we delve further into the series, this story will be more enforced, as characters become stronger and so do their surroundings.
