Blue Bloods Season 9 Debut Teases Details Of Amy Carlsons Character Death
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about tonights Blue Bloods Season 9 premiere on CBS. In ..
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about tonights Blue Bloods Season 9 premiere on CBS.
In a bloody season opener tonight bookended by murdered headless bodies, the return of Blue Bloods also cut deeper into what really happened in the abrupt death of Amy Carlsons character last year.
“First your house burns upm and then a chopper goes down — thats some pretty bad mojo you carry around,” the Lou Diamond Phillips-portrayed ruthless Mexican mafia member Louis Delgado mocks Donnie Wahlbergs Det. Danny Reagan. As the New Kids on the Block founding members character and fans of the very well-crafted and well-watched Tom Selleck-led NYPD family drama clearly could pick up, that was a revelation about Carlsons Linda Reagan.
Much to the ire of many a Blue Bloods viewer, the spouse of Danny Reagan was killed off in a work-related helicopter crash between Season 7 and Season 8 of the Kevin Wade executive produced series.
Stitched up by Wahlbergs Reagan as a snitch to his criminal colleagues, the butcher Delgado seemed to meet his old cutting end tonight – or at least Blue Bloods wants you to buy that distraction. Having fostered the storyline of Carlsons Linda for all of last season and then dropping that bombshell tonight … well, put it this way, Ive been a fan of Blue Bloods long enough to know the producers didnt bring Longmire alum Phillips onboard as a savvy psycho to slice and dice him after one episode, if you know what I mean.
Thats dark, @LouDiamondPhillips. #BlueBloods pic.twitter.com/T3zyupq0NX
— Blue Bloods on CBS! (@BlueBloods_CBS) September 29, 2018
In a Siobhan Byrne-OConner-penned episode of series co-starring Bridget Moynahan Will Estes, Vanessa Ray, Sami Gayle, Len Carlou and Sopranos alum Steve Schirripa that picked up literally days after the engagement announcement that capped the Season 8 ender, tonights Blue Bloods packed in a lot of plot into one TV hour. There was Aasif Mandyi guest-starring as an ambitious prosecutor who promoted Moynahans Assistant D.A. Erin Reagan, while Estes and Ray navigated an arson case and their new official state of affairs as partners both professionally and personally. The latter situation leaving Sellecks long-serving Police Commissioner Frank Reagan conflicted at the office and around the venerable family dinner table that defines Blue Bloods in so many ways.
This being network TV, at least a couple of those narratives found tidy resolution with Estes Jamie Reagan passing his sergeants exam with flying colors. That late plot point nicely removes the potential favoritism taint that could have stained his relationship with his father as well as fiancée and fellow police officer Edit “Eddie” Junko, who clearly is taking the Linda seat at the table, at least figuratively.
That sets the stage for a Season 9 full of seismic shifts in a show that prides itself in many ways in being steady as well as surprising.
However, in many ways, those stories were the backdrop to the hint that a cartel destroyed the eldest Reagan sons home at the end of Season 7 and was responsible for the death of his wife and the mother of his two sons. With Wahlbergs Danny not just any old hot-tempered cop who stumbled into the drug war but the spawn of the head of the NYPD, the stakes just got a lot higher if the Mexican mafia has targeted the Reagan family.
The drama in Dannys life continues… @DonnieWahlberg #BlueBloods pic.twitter.com/nLUMF02FjH
— Blue Bloods on CBS! (@BlueBloods_CBS) September 29, 2018
There was a lot of blowback from viewers when Blue Bloods eighth season started with no Carlson and almost aside that the ER nurse character that had been a part of the Robin Green- and Mitchell Burgess-created show since Season 1 suddenly was written off in a barely explained offscreen death. The lack of a proper Big 4 series sendoff amidst BTS drama as Carlson fulfilled her seven-year contract on the show left too much unexplained.
Not long afterward, a still-circumspect Carlson told Deadlines Nellie Andreeva that she personally thought it “wouldve been nice for the fans to see her demise, to be a participant in it.”
Watching tonights “Playing With Fire” episode, it looks like there is going to be a lot more to see sooner rather than later, one way or another.
Or as Wahlbergs Danny Reagan bluntly says near the end of the Blue Bloods Season 9 opener when the apparent headless body of Phillips Delgado is found: “If there is one thing Ive learned in the last year, closure is overrated.”
Yep.
