I have enjoyed this show for a few years but it is now unfortunately being influenced by the leftist writers. Most evident in the episode "Legacy" Where a cop is fired for daring to stop an illegal. I suspect this shows base is Republican/pro law enforcement and I don't know how long even Selleck and Wahlberg can keep it afloat. Especially disappointing was the departure of Amy Carlson.

This is starting to annoy me. WHY does the show seems to have a major hickup. Two episodes, 3 weeks away from screen, 3 episodes-two weeks away from screen, at least it seems like that. Does the creators make new episodes "on the fly" atm?

It is sad to see a once good series go downhill so fast! Series 8 is really bad. Danny's lines are so corny even worse than those in the Mummy returns. The handling of Linda's disappearance is so badly written that I could not believe what I am hearing or seeing. There is no real emotions from the husband nor the kids and certainly not from the rest of the family. So unreal and unbelievable. Please axe this now - it's painful to watch!!

"Blue Bloods" is only part police procedural. It concerns a New York family where almost every member of the oldest three generations has a job with the police department or the legal infrastructure of Metropolitan New York City. All the actors are attractive and well cast. Donnie Wahlberg plays the big brother cop who is smart, devoted, aggressive, a dead shot. Will Estes is younger brother Jamie with legal smarts but also a street cop. Tom Selleck is the Police Commissioner who is also their father. Len Cariou is the former PC who is the grandfather. Bridget Moynihan is the sister who works in the DA's office. Everyone is brave, everyone is loyal, everyone is as I already wrote, good looking (when they're not great looking, Bridget). Not to be unmentioned are supporting cast members such as Abigail Hawke, Gregory Jbara, who work in the Commissioner's Office with Selleck. Writing is crisp and authoritative. Now on the other side: In comparison to the venerable "Law & Order", this show, Blue Bloods, is more simplistic and straightforwared than the legal curves they throw down on that show. In other words, Law & Order is more sophisticated and plot driven than Blue Bloods, and it could be argued that Blue Bloods is a more conservative, controlled environment that promotes sympathy for the cops to a greater extent than L&O while going through the motions of viewing complicated problems from more than one side. Both shows are extremely unrealistic in that they use major time compression to boil down actual legal procedures that would take months or years in real time to fit in the one hour for a television show.