Blue Bloods isn’t thinking about reinventing the wheel in its closing season. Showrunner Kevin Wade tells TV Insider that identical to in Season 14 Half 1 and its finale, which aired on Friday, Could 17 on CBS, Blue Bloods‘ closing episodes will likely be reliably acquainted territory, however it’ll at all times purpose to entertain its loyal viewers. There are dramatic turns they’re thinking about exploring, just like the bail reform plot line and Aidan Quinn‘s violent response to it within the midseason finale, however one factor that’s not more likely to occur when the present returns is a Danny and Baez romance.
Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) and Baez (Marisa Ramirez) had the heavy activity of reining in Quinn’s Det. Gus Vanderlip, who had gone rogue in response to a serial rapist he had arrested two weeks prior being launched. Between this storyline and the crooked sober-living home at which Jamie (Will Estes) and Eddie (Vanessa Ray) have been undercover (they have been lastly on-assignment collectively!), there was loads of depth within the midseason finale with out considering an excessive amount of about romance.
Wade tells TV Insider that Jamie and Eddie’s romance is ample for the present, however he admits that Danny and Baez do “have plenty of chemistry collectively. It’s great.” However Wade additionally doesn’t suppose Danny has been written for a romantic flip.
“We put Jamie and Eddie collectively a couple of years in the past. I feel the present would dip into parody if we had two of our cops marrying two of their companions who’re stepping into that,” Wade explains. “And candidly, to me, Danny Reagan has been constructed and performed as a loner. I do know he was married for half of the episodes, however he’s virtually just like the traditional personal eye who’s married to his work and who has the liberty and the latitude to do no matter he needs. As a result of sadly at residence, there’s nothing a lot there.”
Wade can be hesitant to dive right into a Danny and Baez romance within the closing season as a result of “there’s no nice scenes in comfortable relationships,” a.okay.a. he must write in some turmoil for the pair in the event that they have been going to get collectively. With the sequence coming to a detailed with the second half of Season 14, there doesn’t appear to be sufficient time to create this storyline in a significant approach.
“The viewers might imagine they need [a Danny and Baez romance], and maybe they do, and maybe I’m utterly fallacious. That’s at all times a robust chance,” Wade says. “But when we have been to place them collectively and there’s a scene the place they’re, I don’t know what, having dinner collectively and so they’re comfortable, I don’t know what that’s.”
He is aware of why followers ‘ship them collectively, although.
“Donnie and Marissa, it doesn’t matter what we write, handle to seek out methods to point out that the 2 like one another greater than as companions,” Wade says. “Let’s put it at that. They’re excellent at engineering a subtextual relationship that the viewers clearly will get.”
Danny and Baez shippers, your principle wasn’t fallacious! Wahlberg and Ramirez are enjoying into that, however it appears that evidently these emotions will stay subtext shifting ahead.
Blue Bloods, Season 14 Half 2, Premieres Fall 2024, CBS
