Like her a lot

Working nights, I hadn't had the opportunity to watch "Blue Bloods." A recent hospital stay combined with WGN's "BB" marathons gave me that opportunity.
I like this show very much. Good stories as long as they don't jump the shark too much.

ON THE OTHER HAND ...

Is anybody keeping count of how many perps Danny has shot and killed? Given that the vast majority of cops, as Frank tells a graduating police class in one episode, will never have to fire their weapons on the job?
Not to mention a creep shooting Erin in the shoulder IN a courtroom during one episode; and later her police commissioner dad, who hasn't been a street cop for a decade or more (and presumably not required to qualify on the range for regularly firearms use) shoots and kills her would-be rapist murderer, using his trusty Fitz Special to nail the creep with a head shot?
Has an American assistant district attorney in the last 10 years had two such incidents during the last decade, not to mention the entire history of U.S. jurisprudence?
OK -- when balancing this much shark-jumping against the show's myriad virtues, the latter come out ahead. And chief among them are some fine performances. Many years after "Magnum P.I.", Selleck is doing his best work here, conveying easy and sometimes overwhelming authority balanced by warmth and charm.
Wahlberg's intensity and conviction combine to practically split the seams of his performance every week. Estes has little natural appeal -- he comes across as a more-muscular and less-shrewd Woody Harrelson -- but his earnestness wins one over. Moynahan is a decent actress (not first-rate, but certainly OK)and very easy on the eyes.

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