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Selleck. Wahlberg. BLUE BLOODS.

post #1 of 28
9/22/10 at 11:08am
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Family. Honor. Loyalty. Fuckin' A.
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post #2 of 28
9/23/10 at 11:43pm
Yes, I will get on board with you for this, Molt.
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post #3 of 28
9/23/10 at 11:56pm
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I'm a little worried because I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a CBS drama. Guess it was Liotta's very short-lived Smith. But I'm gonna give Tom a fair shot at winning me over here.

The husband and wife co-creators are Sopranos vets so that's encouraging.
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post #4 of 28
9/23/10 at 11:58pm
It's a hometown show, so I gotta support it for at least a few weeks now that L&O is dead and gone.
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post #5 of 28
9/25/10 at 12:22pm
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Pretty much just a rote network cop drama, complete with watered down rote network cop drama language ("Screw you!").

I'm already tired of the left wing lawyer vs. law and order cop arguments between Wahlberg and Bridget Moynahan. They should have made Wahlberg the bleeding heart and Moynahan the "do whatever it takes to catch the perp" type. At least that would have been original.

The big family dinner scene bordered on laughable. The debate over torture and Moynahan's mention of John McCain felt so shoe-horned.

Selleck is a solid anchor but I hope he's not just relegated to being stuck in an office and occasionally asking his kids how they're doing. Don't care if he is part of the brass, I want him bustin' heads.

The one intriguing aspect was the whole "Blue Templar" secret corrupt society of the NYPD angle. That's the sort of pulpy stuff this show is gonna need because it's not gonna cut it by aiming for realism.

Will give it 1, maybe 2 more shots to step it up.
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post #6 of 28
9/25/10 at 12:29pm
My parents gave it two thumbs up, way up.
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post #7 of 28
9/25/10 at 12:37pm
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Yeah, I'm gonna have to ask my folks what they thought of it. They're true blue Jesse Stone-heads but I'm pretty sure one of the reasons they love those movies is because of the small town factor. Don't know if they'll be as drawn to seeing Selleck combat crime in the big city.

I'm sure the show will be a hit with the 50+ crowd, which I guess is all CBS is hoping for from a Friday night drama.
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post #8 of 28
9/25/10 at 3:10pm
I don't know what I was expecting, but the cop aspects of Law and Order were better than this. I know it's the pilot and all, but they need to step it up.

Even Donnie Wahlberg giving a dude a swirlie isn't quite enough.
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post #9 of 28
9/25/10 at 5:29pm
Well, that was dull. And hey, TV, there are other interesting cities to put a cop show than New York and L.A.
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post #10 of 28
9/25/10 at 6:46pm
It was a bit stilted and rushed, especially with how they resolved the episode's crime. And I agree that the Sunday dinner scene was over the top, not to mention that none of the actors cast as the various family members even remotely resemble each other.

Not sure if y'all saw this news when it originally ran, but there's dissension among the ranks.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/exec...h-tom-selleck/
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post #11 of 28
9/25/10 at 9:19pm
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Well, that was dull. And hey, TV, there are other interesting cities to put a cop show than New York and L.A.
The Good Guys is set in Dallas, and there's Detroit. I can't think of any recent cop shows set in Chicago, even though I would think that'd be a good setting.

I guess it's easier for writers to write LA and New York.
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post #12 of 28
9/25/10 at 9:45pm
I'd like to remind Cameron once again that cop shows not set in NY or LA don't get Emmy attention or big budgets.
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post #13 of 28
9/25/10 at 9:48pm
CSI Miami and Las Vegas do well enough I guess.
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post #14 of 28
9/25/10 at 9:50pm
Shame on elitist Hollywood, because "In the Heat of the Night" proved nothing is more exciting than smalltown deep South.
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post #15 of 28
9/25/10 at 9:54pm
Justified sorta has a lock on the smalltown, and kinda big town, South angle though.
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post #16 of 28
9/25/10 at 10:06pm
Justified is cable, and CSI is a franchise.
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post #17 of 28
9/25/10 at 10:16pm
True, I'm just saying that there are cop shows set in different places that are pretty darn good.

Though I have to admit that there are a lot of LA and New York shows.
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post #18 of 28
9/25/10 at 10:44pm
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I'd like to remind Cameron once again that cop shows not set in NY or LA don't get Emmy attention or big budgets.


You got me on the budget though.
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post #19 of 28
9/25/10 at 10:58pm
Seven years. Shot in Baltimore. Struggled to have a decent budget for its entire run. 1 major Emmy win.
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post #20 of 28
9/26/10 at 3:50am
THE BEAST was set and filmed in Chicago.
Granted, it was awful (even Greg Henry couldn't save it) but season 2 was a go until Body caught his last wave. They should set a cop show somewhere exciting like El Paso.
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post #21 of 28
9/26/10 at 11:07pm
I'm afraid this strikes me as terribly MoR, but a few more episodes will tell.

The best NY cop show, imo. From Tony Yerkovich and David Milch - is there a better pedigree for a cop show?

Mid-season replacement in January 2001, Cancelled after 4 episodes (they had 8 in the can). Ed O'Neill, Michael Madsen, David Strathairn, Titus Welliver, Kim Dickens, Donnie Wahlberg. O'Neill, Madsen, Welliver and Straithairn were standouts in particular. Anyone interested further feel free to send me a tell.
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post #22 of 28
9/26/10 at 11:35pm
Holy crap, it's a flashback to the early 21st century.

Did it all for the nookie indeed.
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post #23 of 28
9/26/10 at 11:46pm
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Originally Posted by Bluelouboyle View Post
THE BEAST was set and filmed in Chicago.
Ride Along is a midseason replacement set in Chicago with Jennifer beals.

Chicago should be a perfect location for a Shield type cop show. You could have gang killings every episodeand not be off.
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post #24 of 28
9/27/10 at 12:08am
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Selleck really opened a can on Jimmy Smits:

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_New...0321285518905/

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Tom Selleck's new television drama "Blue Bloods" on CBS led Friday night in the ratings, The Hollywood Reporter said.

The report said "Blue" had 12.8 million viewers, up 22 percent from the debut of "Numbers" in the time period last year.

"Blue" also beat its own lead-in, "CSI:NY." The Reporter said the switch from Wednesdays to Fridays resulted in a drop of 50 percent from its premiere last fall.

Overall, CBS won the night, the report said.

"Blue" rolled over NBC's "Outlaw," which had 5 million viewer, at 10 p.m.
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post #25 of 28
9/27/10 at 10:40am
With all this chatter of cop shows set in L.A. or NYC, there's the The Good Guys in Dallas (that show reminds me of Sledge Hammer with David Rasche), the only other currently-airing cop show I can think of set in another metropolitan city is Detroit 1-8-7, which premiered on ABC last Tuesday. But other than a few pick-ups, the majority of the show was filmed in the Atlanta area. I know this because a good family friend worked on the crew earlier this year. I tried to give it a chance considering I like Michael Imperioli, but I made it through about 10 minutes and was so bored, I moved on. Anyone stick through the entire episode?
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post #26 of 28
10/16/10 at 5:31pm
Didn't see 1-2-7.
Looks like nobody's still watching BLUE BLOODS.
Not around here anyway
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post #27 of 28
10/16/10 at 5:35pm
Eh, I'm still watching it. The Templar thing is slowly picking up steam.

I have to say that the ending was hilarious. They were running out of time I guess, so the guy just steps out to suicide by cop.

Next week, TERRORISM!
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post #28 of 28
10/17/10 at 1:37am
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Originally Posted by Bluelouboyle View Post
Didn't see 1-2-7.
Looks like nobody's still watching BLUE BLOODS.
Not around here anyway
Been watching from the start. Diggin' Wahlberg's morally ambiguous detective, not so much the carousel of partners (though Jen Esposito is supposed to be permanent), want more Templar backstory, Bridget Moynahan is criminally underused as the assistant DA (her Brooklyn accent is impressive), and my favorite scenes are the family dinners that bubble over with tension. Those poor kids.
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