Does Danny really have to kill people in almost every episode?
Investigations of complex crimes, confrontations between a detective and the main villain, witty speeches at court hearings – all such scenes in TV series are very popular.
However, in the pursuit of entertainment, screenwriters often change the entire legal system, making monstrous mistakes that real lawyers can only smile about.
In the case of Blue Bloods, however, it wasn’t just the legal inaccuracies that surprised fans.
1. Family Dinners Every Week
A family dinner every week that no one misses and that is never interrupted by unforeseen circumstances? Really? We can’t believe the screenwriters wanted us to consider it possible.
Everyone knows that getting the whole family together for even one dinner every six months is a real feat, let alone weekly meetings.
2. Danny Killing People Right And Left And Not Getting Fired
The most unrealistic storyline in the show probably belongs to Danny. He kills people in almost every episode, which may make him the cop with the highest body count in history. And if that happened in real life, he definitely wouldn’t be a cop anymore.
He also uses illegal means to extract confessions from suspects. It’s pretty obvious that a real cop wouldn’t stick a suspect’s head in a toilet. But Danny did.
3. Intersection of the Reagan Family Cases
You know what a conflict of interest is, right? It is a situation in which a police officer’s personal interest interferes with the performance of his official duties, and in which a contradiction may arise between his personal interest and the rights of the suspect.
And this is the main reason why half of the cases handled by members of the Reagan family simply would not have happened. Often the cases of Erin, Jamie and Danny intersect – in real life these cases would simply be given to other people.
4. Cops Not Working Extra Shifts on Sundays
This detail also struck many fans, even those who are not particularly interested in the lives and schedules of police officers. In Blue Bloods, we never see cops working on Sundays – even though it’s quite common in real life.
Besides, Jamie, as a rookie cop, should have experienced this – being the junior in rank, he should have gotten the worst shifts. But again, he never missed his Sunday family dinner.