Something Blue

This episode has almost nine stars on IMDb, and yet there is an awful lot of hating on social media and the web because, why? Because we didn't have an episode consisting of a 50 minute wedding ceremony? This is a very odd criticism. Discussion about the wedding and many moments between different characters throughout the episode are completely focused on the impending wedding. The wedding is actually front-and-center during much of the entire episode. I thought the brevity of the episode's wedding sequence itself was perfect. It was sweet and said all that needed to be said. And a renewal for a 10th season is the icing on the wedding cake.

It's nice to see the more family dynamics in a police show. A refreshing out of the ordinary and perfect episode that was heartwarming. A perfect 10/10 from me!

The big day for the Reagan family has arrived with Will Estes and Vanessa Ray getting hitched and the hitching being done by the archbishop Stacy Keach.

But Ray gets into a professional dust up with Bridget Moynahan over one of her cases which threatens to derail the wedding. And she has no one to give her away at the ceremony.

A note of comedy comes into play as Tom Selleck's immediate official family gets into a turf war. So Selleck shuffles jobs for Abigail Hawk, Robert Clohessy, and Gregory Jbara and the results are funny and educational for the parties involved.

And Donnie Wahlberg and Marissa Ramirez investigate a murder of a man who had a date with a woman and they were caught on tape at a bar and she might have been the last one to see him alive. But her tearful pleas of innocence get to Danny Reagan.

All in all a landmark Blue Bloods story.

This was a pretty good job of pulling the various "family" threads together. One weakness, I thought, was the Danny and Baez/Rachel story. They sort of demonstrated someone else was guilty, but I didn't feel the story line was really closed off for Rachel. What I thought this episode really showed up was a question that I've been asking myself for nine years: why is Abigail Baker still a Detective? She is a woman of intelligence, competence and obvious authority. I thought in the very first season that as the Commissioner's Adjutant (which she clearly is) she should have at least the rank of Lieutenant. Frank was able to promote Sid from Sergeant without too much problem - might I suggest that both Sid and Abigail be promoted to Captain as rapidly as possible (perhaps with some equivalent nod to Garrett, who's nominally a higher level anyway), levelling the foundation supporting Frank's backup trio, and acknowledging the very equivalence of function that was pointed up in this episode.