SPOILER ALERT: This story comprises spoilers from “Religion and Household,” the sequence premiere of CBS’ “Boston Blue.”
When “Blue Bloods” got here to an finish final 12 months after 14 seasons, there have been a number of questions viewers nonetheless had about what occurred to the Reagan clan. Fortunately, with spinoff “Boston Blue,” led by Donnie Wahlberg’s Dannie Reagan, they bought one massive reply within the first moments of the Oct. 17 premiere.
In the finale, Danny lastly requested his longtime accomplice, Maria Baez (Marisa Ramirez) to get pizza. And within the first minutes of the premiere, he was proven in mattress with Baez; their banter returned, this time with a romantic twist.
“As soon as we realized we have been getting an opportunity to proceed Danny Reagan’s story, Brandon and I checked out what the dangling threads have been from the finale, and what was owed. Clearly, the massive one was what occurred once they went out for pizza,” co-showrunner Brandon Margolis tells Selection. “We actually did need to really feel like this present is continuous that story in pretty actual time. It’s going to be a couple of 12 months because the finale was off the air, so if Danny and Baez have been collectively, the place are they at, and what would that appear like? How might that doubtlessly complicate a journey going from New York to Boston? It was vital to us we pay service to that and proceed to ascertain that relationship.”
Whereas Ramirez hasn’t but signed on to extra episodes, the connection will proceed, Sonnier confirms. “Lengthy-distance relationships are a factor. I feel we are able to count on to play that relationship by means of and actually get a way of the place they’re within the development of this relationship that we’ve been looking forward to a decade,” he says. “It’s a four-hour drive!”
Mika Amonsen as Sean Reagan
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Within the premiere, Danny pairs up with Detective Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Inexperienced), the eldest daughter of a distinguished regulation enforcement household — one thing he is aware of a factor or two about — in Boston. He’s taking up a brand new position with the Boston Police Division in an effort to keep near his son, Sean (Mika Amonsen), after he suffers an harm whereas on the job as a police officer.
One massive distinction from “Blue Bloods” is that Sean has been recast; whereas Andrew Terraciano performed the character for 292 episodes of “Blue Bloods,” Mika Amonsen has taken over the position for the spinoff.
We love Andrew and the work he did over time on ‘Blue Bloods.’ Actually, it got here all the way down to we’re telling a brand new chapter in each of their lives. It’s not simply Sean who has joined the household enterprise because it have been and is popping over this new leaf, however it’s additionally now Danny Reagan is the daddy to a cop, which he’s by no means been earlier than,” explains Margolis. “So there are all these new storytelling lanes to discover. It felt like there was an natural alternative to usher in a brand new efficiency with a brand new power, to assist dramatize that change. It’s the similar character, it’s the identical relationship, however it’s additionally fully totally different. We love what Mika has dropped at Sean, this vulnerability, but this need to show himself. It’s simply been nice to look at it come to life.”
Sonequa Martin-Inexperienced as Lena Silver, Bridget Moynahan as Erin Reagan Boyle, and Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan
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The present can have the same tone to “Blue Bloods” and can possible embrace extra acquainted faces. Bridget Moynahan’s Erin Raegan appeared within the premiere, arriving in Boston to verify Danny was okay, which appears to be simply the beginning.
“Can we count on some relations? Can we count on some visits and a few journeys? Sure, we are able to,” co-showrunner Brandon Sonnier provides. “We actually imply that we’re an enlargement of the universe. It’s not only a run-of-the-mill spinoff. It’s a totally different take a look at a special dynastic regulation enforcement household by means of the eyes of the Reagans. However the Reagans exist. They’re nonetheless on the market on this planet, dwelling these lives that we watched for thus lengthy.”
Plus, each episode will function a household dinner — the Silver household’s Shabbat dinner, which was a part of the premiere, which Danny and Erin excitedly joined.
“We can have Shabbat dinner each episode. We hope to honor the unique present and their Sunday dinners have been a lot a material of what that present was about, what that household was about,” says Sonnier. “One of many issues Donnie would all the time inform us about was what number of real-life regulation enforcement individuals he would meet over the course of engaged on ‘Blue Bloods’ would categorical how a lot they appreciated that the Reagan household reminded them of their household. They might sit down and they’d have dinner. That is an natural solution to proceed that universe. It’s one thing we do. I sit all the way down to dinner as typically as doable with my household. I’ve 4 younger youngsters. Everybody’s bought baseball and dance and all of the issues that folks have. However as typically as we are able to, we sit down and we do rejoice Shabbat, so Friday is our time that we get to attach as a household.”
“Boston Blue” airs at 10 p.m. ET on CBS and streams on Paramount+ the subsequent day.
