BLUE BLOODS “Smack Attack” Season 1 Episode 6 – The more I watch this series, the more I like it. One of things I like most is how it lets us see the job of being a New York City police officer from three different levels. First is Jamie who’s at the very bottom and doing mostly the grunt work – like in the case of last week’s episode where there was a terrorist threat and he and his partner didn’t even know for sure what was happening. Then there’s Danny who’s usually always in the thick of it, right on the front lines and getting into it all. Then finally there’s Frank who’s above it all and knows about everything, even if he can’t always do something about it.
I also like that they show how hard it is for an entire family to be on the force, especially when the cases they work can’t help but to follow them home. Like the discussion about legalizing drugs that happened at the dinner table. Talk about a loaded subject and not one I’d relish having with a bunch of my best of friends, let alone my family. Though I guess it’s something that has to be discussed, so why not do it with your family? The Reagans deal with some pretty tough issues and it seems to make them closer because of it. Maybe we should learn from their example.
Another tough issue in this episode was the one about searching the kid’s lockers at the school after three kids died from some bad drugs. Frankly I’m the kind of person who doesn’t care if someone wants to search me or my locker or my car or whatever. I think that protesting that sort of thing is like when people get mad when a cashier asks for their ID at a store. Really? You’re gonna get mad that they’re trying to make sure that someone hasn’t stolen your credit card? I just don’t understand it.
So why protest if someone wants to search your locker? If you didn’t do anything wrong, you have nothing to be scared of. Doing it without cause would be one thing (like if they just searched lockers whenever they felt like it), but when there’s lives on the line? I have no problem with it.
The only storyline that I’m not enjoying, at least not yet, is this whole Templar thing. Just a few texts here and there aren’t making for anything interesting and it keeps pulling me from the main stories. I like the idea of having story arcs that run through the season but this one has yet to interest me.
Overall I found this to be another good episode of Blue Bloods. I like that it started out being about a scumbag selling bad drugs to kids but then surprise, surprise, it was actually a teacher who had an affair with a student. When he started seeing another girl, she decided to kill him. Wow, what a sicko. Pretty nice twist and one I definitely didn’t see coming.
What did you think of this episode of Blue Bloods? Got any favorite bits or least favorite bits of your own? I’d love to hear from you!
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