# Blue Bloods (2010)

> A New York Police Commissioner juggles department politics and a sprawling family of cops who share one code of honor.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/30088

## Facts

- Seasons: 14
- Episodes: 293
- Episode runtime: 44 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess
- Network: CBS
- Cast: Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou, Amy Carlson, Jennifer Esposito, Dominique Fishback
- TMDB rating: 7.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1595859/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: earnest, warm, inspirational, tense, sincere

## What critics say

Audience reception is positive, with the family dynamics, Sunday dinner scenes, and steady police procedural storytelling praised across fourteen seasons.

## Synopsis

Blue Bloods (2010-2024) is an American network crime drama created by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess for CBS. Tom Selleck plays New York Police Commissioner Frank Reagan, a diplomatic patriarch who steers his department through political pressure while holding together a sprawling family of cops. Donnie Wahlberg plays his detective son Danny, whose hard-edged street work often collides with the rules his father must enforce, and Bridget Moynahan and Will Estes fill out the family's other police and legal branches. Len Cariou appears as Frank's father Henry, a former Chief whose bold political battles still shape the family's reputation. Each episode is built around a self-contained case of the week, from robberies and assaults to tense confrontations on city streets, and those cases spill into the Sunday dinner table where the Reagans argue over justice, loyalty and what the badge demands. The series runs fourteen seasons and about 290 episodes as a single continuing family saga rather than a serialized mystery. Its setting is present-day New York City, a bustling, rain-slicked metropolis of precinct houses, city hall offices and family kitchens. The tone is earnest, warm and inspirational, with procedural tension and moral seriousness throughout. Fans of Law & Order, The Closer and The Wire will find resonance here.

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