Re: Blue Bloods "Two of a Kind" 5/10/2024 (was: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-10 (Friday))

On Sat, 11 May 2024 22:37:39 -0000 (UTC)
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
 

Blue Bloods - the penultimate episode of season 14A. Season 14B will
apparently be just 4 episodes unless the cast and producers of the
show manage to convince CBS to un-cancel it. Frankly - forgive the
inadvertent pun - if I was another network with some holes in my
Friday night schedule, I'd look seriously at picking this up.
Apparently, the ratings are still very strong (despite the
ever-weaker writing) and everyone still wants to do it so why not?  

 

As for plot, we see the first time in a very long time where
Danny's plumper son finally got something to do but sit at the dinner
table. After being robbed on campus, he and his dad set out to catch
the robber. Also, Eddie and her partner untangle a landlord-tenant
dispute that turns out to be more complicated than it appears. Erin
discovers a legal aid attorney is not giving his client good advice
and works to take down the attorney which has unexpected
consequences for the client. Jamie and Joe Hill actually engage in
some off-duty fisticuffs - with each other! - and Frank has to
figure out how to make them get along.  

 
Gawd this was awful. None of the stories had anything resembling a
plot. Is Sean supposed to be at Columbia?

I don't know NYC well-enough to say. Apparently, Sean's campus is right
beside the Arc de Triomphe knockoff, which he called W-something
Square, but I have no idea if that is anywhere near Columbia. I didn't
see any encampments or "activists" in keffiyehs but they might have
filmed before that started.

The student robbery plot was
ridiculous. Danny tells Sean to wait till the next night, and all he's
going to have Sean do is wait at the police station for the identity
parade. Instead Sean goes out that night, interferes with another
robbery in exactly the same spot, recognizes the robber as an employee
and gets stabbed. The victim thinks Sean saved her and he gets a date.
Fortunately for the purpose of Danny not having to do any
investigating, the perpetrator returns to work and gets arrested.
Based on the Law of Conservation of Characters, the mastermind is the
head of campus security who had recruited ex cons for campus jobs
then told them whom to rob. Not sure how he was tracking student
movement.
 

He probably had stuck secret trackers on all the most-promising
"marks".

Wow this script goes out of its way to make Edit massively stupid. In
the landlord-tenant dispute, once again, Edit immediately sympathized
with the landlady who claimed the tenant had threatened her on several
occassions but never once filed a complaint nor did she try to force
the tenant to move. She also lied to police about her wherabouts. The
case is blown wide open because Edit and Badillo have found all of
the stolen furniture and personal effects in a storage locker rented
by the tenants. This would have required a moving truck that no one
saw despite the florist across the street watching every movement.
 
I had no idea Edit had access to Penelope's couch database, now
updated to include storage space rental agreements.
 

Yeah, that was a particularly ridiculous moment. There's no way they
had sufficient justification to drop everything and search all the
storage locker places for something in the name of the couple or
landlady. That would have taken days and probably a team of officers.
No way a supervisor signs off on that unless there is someone or
something very valuable being stashed. Edit didn't know that ANYTHING
was stashed; she apparently just had a hunch.

The wife was setting up the landlady out of revenge for the affair she
had with her husband, wrecking their marriage. Edit helpfully opines
that the husband, only, was at fault. Last I looked, it took two to
cheat.

I just took Edit's remark to mean that, of the two of them, husband and
wife, the husband was wholly at fault.

The only thing they can think of to charge the wife with is
making a false police report.
>

 I can't think of anything else she did that would be a crime.

Erin's story is beyond awful. She completely sympathizes with a
criminal who is facing numerous "possession of" charges as a getaway
driver, and offers the guy a ridiculous plea bargain, which he
rejects. Erin raises an objection at arraignment to the failure to
plead guilty.
 
Can she do that? Obviously the defendant has a right to trial.
 

I took her remarks as a strongly-worded suggestion to the lawyer,
rather than an objection per se. I don't know if having that
conversation in front of the judge as a sidebar was appropriate.
Perhaps she was hoping the judge would take her side.

The defendant keeps insisting that he's innocent, that he had no idea
what his co-conspirator was going to put into his car. Well, he KNEW
it was a burglarly, so whatever was going to be put into his car
would be stolen goods. That's kind of how burglarly works.
 

Agreed. The defendant is NOT innocent, he's just not guilty of as much
as the other guy.

The defense lawyer is representing both conspirators but this
defendant is unaware of the enormous ethical conflict. Somehow his
fighting his own charges is better for the other defendant? It makes
no sense.
>

I suspect the lawyer was going to come up with some evidence that would
paint the black guy as the major offender and the other guy as just a
small fish who should be let go: basically a role reversal of reality.
 

Surely the two men would have been tried simultaneously and the lawyer
representing both couldn't have been hidden. Even if both defendants
waived conflict, the judge sure as hell would have said something.
 
For no particular reason, Joe Hill and Jamie get into a stupid fight.
Jamie is being such an ass that Joe is less unsympathetic. Franks
threatens to make them ride together in uniform in the highest crime
beat at night but they end up walking during daylight on a street
without crime.
 

Well, they did go out at least one night when they caught the kid
stealing the air fryer for his mom's present. The scene where they were
together in uniform in daylight *might* have been when they were making
their way to 1PP to find out that Frank was letting them off the hook.

I think I hit the lowlights. Was Baez even on episode? I don't recall.

I believe I caught a glimpse of her being there when they arrested the
Security Manager at the campus (or his minion). I think she had a
cliche throwaway line but if you blinked, you missed it.

--
Rhino