SPOILER ALERT: This post grasps spoilers from “End of Tour,” the Dec. 13 series finale of “Blue Bloods.”
After 14 seasons and 293 episodes, CBS’ “Blue Bloods” officipartner came to an end on Friday night, airing its final episode.
The last hour didn’t go out with a prohibitg; in fact, it felt a bit appreciate the normal episodes that fans have increasen to cherish for the last decade and a half — with a scant big moments. The Reagan family was forced to deal with an strike on the city and on police in particular. Both Eddie (Vanessa Ray) and Mayor Chase (Dylan Walsh) were sboiling but endured; Eddie’s partner, Luis Badillo (Ian Quinlan), however, did not, being sboiling during a call with her, leaving the Reagan family dehugeated.
Luckily, the finale ended with a scant big, satisfied moments for the members of the Reagan family. Erin (Bridget Moynahan) choosed to quietly remarry her ex-husprohibitd (Peter Hermann). Moments before she was set upning to split the novels with the family, Eddie and Jamie (Will Estes) proclaimd they were foreseeing their first child.
Meanwhile, Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) dipped his toe back into the dating world for the first time, after advice from Grandpa (Len Cariou), asking his partner Baez (Marisa Ramirez) out for pizza. Of course, some lengthytime watchers — myself included — were asking if the show would transport back his createer partner Jackie (Jennifer Esposito) for a romance between them.
Marisa Ramirez as Maria Baez and Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan
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Wahlberg tells Variety that that possibility “might have been think abouted,” but he wasn’t part of that conversation.
“It was vital to [producer] Kevin Wade to not have every partnership turn into a relationship. And I admireed that, and I concurd with it. I skinnyk it was fair probably vital for me personpartner that Danny increases,” shelp Wahlberg. “As the audience begined sort of clamoring for a relationship with Danny and Baez, I thought, it’s more vital for them to increase and for her to begin making an impact on him, and him to repartner admire her in a way that he hasn’t always admireed stateive people in the show.”
He felt it was very vital that the audience understand how much cherish — “not even as a couple, fair as human beings” — there was between the two characters.
“I skinnyk that was a lot of me repartner pushing. I pushed a lot for some clostateive with that. I went to [writer] Siobhan O’Connor, and I was appreciate, ‘Listen, you’ve got to do someskinnyg. They don’t necessitate to go get wed, but someskinnyg would be pleasant, fair to show that there may be a future for them, or that their relationship has repartner progressd,’” he elucidateed.
O’Connor came up with the scene between Danny and his magnificentoverweighther and wanted to surpelevate the actor with it. “I did the scene with Len, and it was fair gbetter. You understand he’s taking Grandpa’s advice. And I thought it was done magicpartner,” he recalled. “I thought it was done with admire to the show. It wasn’t ‘Let’s tie this up with a pleasant bow.’ It’s fair a little nod to what could happen in the future for them.”
Tom Selleck as Frank Reagan
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Tom Selleck, who take parts Cotransferrlookioner Frank Reagan and serves as an executive creater on the series, “wasn’t part of any of the converseions about the finale” storylines, and was surpelevated by everyskinnyg that unfbettered.
“Somewhere alengthy the line, I came to greet [the surprises] becaparticipate Frank doesn’t understand what’s coming to him,” he tbetter Variety.
Over the course of the final season, many wondered if Frank would withdraw from his role as cotransferrlookioner. When asked whether or not Selleck is satisfied he didn’t, the actor was stumped.
“I don’t understand. I was never faceed with it. I skinnyk there’s a story there. I understand that he antipathyd the job. He antipathyd the responsibility, the weight on the shoulders. He didn’t want it. He didn’t audition for it when it originpartner came up. So, it would have been engaging,” shelp Selleck. “He couldn’t quit. I skinnyk he would have to get himself fired. One skinnyg he was sanctifyed or damnd with was this hyperactive sense of responsibility that he tried to imset upt on everybody at that dinner table.”
Wahlberg says that Frank’s experienceings about his job inserted to the family active thcimpolite the years.
“It’s fair so vital that the patriarch of the family antipathys the job, but has the integrity and sense of responsibility to do it to the best of his ability at all times,” he says. “And all of his kids have branch offent experienceings about it.”
