Blue Bloods (TV Series) Open Secrets (2014) User Reviews

Copious files pay off

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 2 February 2017]

Although part of this episode deals with Tom Selleck understandably not being willing to talk openly about the NYPD's intelligence program regarding terrorists, the bulk of the episode is regarding an abduction of a young girl from a school. It brings back bad memories for Donnie Wahlberg of a case from seven years earlier that he could not close.

Bridget Moynahan is on a murder case where the defense is pleading insanity. The defense attorney here is real life defense attorney Bruce Cutler. Cutler skewers the DA's expert witness Greg Germann as an expert who's quite full of himself and Moynahan has to work out of boundaries to see justice done.

Wahlberg and Marissa Ramirez take up most of the episode and the case has occurred at the same school from seven years earlier. Patrick Breen steals the episode as the father who never gave up hope and he's kept copious files on his daughter's disappearance. Turns out they pay off.

Breen and Germann really steal this story from the regulars.

4.15 ***1/2

[edwagreen · 9/10 · 1 March 2014]

What was going on all those 7 years when the kidnapped girl was being held captive? This needed to be developed much further in this episode.

Frank and the commissioner almost come to blows over transparency and revelations regarding diplomats being monitored by the police department in its never ending war on terror. Even German Prime Minister Angela Merkel is mentioned.

Our female D.A. catches her daughter supposedly studying physics in the bedroom of their home with a young man. Apparently, there is more than a chemical reaction here.

What's going on at that school where two kidnappings have taken place in front of it during a seven year span? The father of the original victim is relentless in his pursuit of what occurred with his daughter? Usually after 7 years, you can forget a happy outcome. There is much of a surprise here which I stated needed to be developed a lot more.

A Good Show but with Hollywood Idiocy Added

[championbc-99-5005 · 7/10 · 31 May 2015]

See? I still gave it a "7" and it is still my favorite show to watch, but somebody let a Hollywood bonehead put his/her/its own philosophy into the script.

We all know about the tension between Erin and Nicky, and most of the time, Grandpa has to step in and get Nicky back on track.

But today, we see Erin coming home, and Nicky, who lives in mom's house, eats mom's food, and who will be getting mom's college money, steps out of the bedroom, obviously stunned to be found out.

Then, out comes the high school stud (I say that because he came over to "study," and we go ahead and have him for dinner.

But later, in all the wisdom of her sixteen years, Nicky sets her mom straight. "Yes, we are talking about having sex, and no, it is not any of your business. I have no idea what love is, nor if he means anything to me, but we might just have sex anyway because I am a stupid teen-aged kid, and no one in this show is giving me any advice at all because they are all afraid to." Come on! This show was made popular because it is a strong Catholic family with strong family values, yet mom does not have the guts to try to teach Nicky anything. And Nicky actually thinks she is smart enough, mature enough, and experienced enough to figure this one out.

And then Erin goes ahead and all but confesses that she was sexually active at Nicky's age, and that she's not standing in the way. "Just don't do it in my house," she implies, which, of course, opens it up to anywhere else in the world.

The problem is, some sixteen-year-old is going to think that all parents are that buffoonish, and that sex is some type of no-consequence play toy that teens have at their disposal that will have no long-term effects on their lives, careers, and families.

This is my favorite show. But someone with the morals of a tomcat (apologies to all tomcats here) decided to insert this damaging piece of Hollywood propaganda here.

Outside of that, a pretty good show, as usual.

Nikki turns my stomach

[nautikalhorizon · 5/10 · 25 May 2021]

Every episode with Nikki a part of the story line turns my stomach.

Believable Much?

[bell-ann · 1/10 · 28 February 2014]

I'm sorry CBS, but this show is becoming completely implausible. Tonight's plot line was so filled with holes I had to comment, which strangely enough, is something I rarely do. I once loved this show, but lately I usually ask myself at the beginning of each ep,"Which Reagan is going to be in danger?" It's gotten that predictable, I'm only hanging in because I'm a huge Donnie Wahlberg fan, I think he's a very underrated actor. I won't discuss specifics 'bout tonight's episode, because I'm pathological about spoilers, but c'mon, new case doesn't ring any bells about the old case from the outset? Malarky!!! And the FBI shows up in the Commissioner's office for a conversation about some honestly, trivial matter, but they're nowhere to be seen on the case of a missing child? That would be the definition of incredible. I'm so hopeful they'll get the old writers back(I'm assuming that's what's gone so wrong)or get some new better ones.

Blindingly Obvious Script!

[tsn-48730 · 1/10 · 8 October 2023]

The whole main plot of this episode was so glaringly obvious from one step to another that, even if one had never seen it before, whenever that part was on you could have practically have spoken each character's lines for them with only very few inconsequential differences.

A previous childhood abduction that has haunted Danny from the past that you absolutely KNEW the very second the father from that abduction was introduced into the storyline, was going to be solved at the very last second of the show in an extremely tear jerking ending. That's just how the Danny and the Reagan's roll.

And when Danny and Bias were walking down the hallway and met the school janitor? The director might just as well have had light people start flashing massive neon signs over her (with equally large reminders for the rest of the episode) saying "Hey! Everyone! Over here! Stop looking! She's guilt as hell!!!" Then rescuing BOTH girls alive and completely unharmed, from a locked basement!!! That's a Reagan family Sunday Dinner Orgasm of Righteous!!!