A heartfelt goodbye! After portraying Fire Commissioner Veronica Radley in Blue Bloods, Mira Sorvino reflected on what it was like working with Tom Selleck on the CBS series in its final season.
“I had the extraordinary pleasure of working w/ the great Tom Selleck on this (I believe to be final) season of @bluebloods_cbs it was an honor to appear as the fire commissioner in this beloved show,” she captioned an Instagram post on Sunday, November 24. “Loved also playing w/ Dylan Walsh. What a great experience, great cast and crew!”
Mira, 57, appeared in the season 14 episode titled “Bad to Worse” on November 1.
Fans flew to the comments section to praise Mira, Tom, 79, and the rest of the Blue Bloods cast for all of their incredible work in season 14.
“Great Series, with great Stars in the Cast!!! Will truly miss the Friday night episodes,” one fan wrote in a comment underneath the photo.
“You were great! Sad to see it end,” another person wrote, while another comment said, “Wonderful. Two legends together, and better every day.”
While some were hoping that Blue Bloods’ cancellation would be overturned, that doesn’t look like it’s happening. CBS announced that the show’s series finale would air on Friday, December 13 at 10 p.m.
Prior to the finale, a special one-hour behind-the-scenes episode titled Blue Bloods: Celebrating a Family Legacy will air on Friday, November 29. The episode “includes new exclusive interviews with the stars and recurring guest stars who share favorite memories and behind-the-scenes moments from the past 14 years,” according to a CBS press release.
“The special serves as a love letter to the loyal fans who had dinner with the Reagan family every Friday night and upheld Blue Bloods as one of the top series on television,” the press release said.
It’s been heartbreaking to see the cast and crew say goodbye to the series after 14 years on the network.
“It’s a band that’s been touring together for 14 years, so sometimes you want to just go, you know what? You on the drums, you on the lead guitar. Go at it,” showrunner Kevin Wade reflected in a May interview with TV Insider.
He explained that the Reagans would continue to hold strong family values at their core until the very end of the series.
“We always have tried to strip away another layer of the characters,” he said. “Because we’re a closed-end procedural and we don’t have a serialized kind of storytelling, the only changes we can make are in the characters and their actual fears. I’m trying to write the best stories to put two or more Reagans in opposition to each other and try to resolve it at the end. And hopefully, in the resolution, they reveal something new about themselves.”