As you guys know, I like science fiction.
Well, I just discovered the top SF series possibly of all time. It’s called Blue Bloods and is set in a fictional, alternate universe version of New York, starring Tom Selleck.
In this universe the Reagan family are all Irish cops or lawyers and it’s fantastic!
These are not spoilers because you get this right from the start:
- The Irish are not semi-functional alcoholics.
- The cops are honest.
- The Commissioner of police AND the mayor are honest and honourable.
- Honour amongst the cops, the mayor, the police Commissioner and the female prosecutor comes before politics, personal gain and so on.
- The Reagan family always goes to Church on Sundays and has Sunday lunch together.
They even get the IQ of the main detective right, you know how cops can’t have anything that’s 120 IQ or higher? Well, no danger of that, Danny Reagan regularly acts as an entitled power-hungry macho wanna be, and screws up regularly. For example, losing the undercover cops he’s supposed to be following, and so they get shot, making idiotic rash decisions, treating everyone like shit, including his wife, engaging in a firefight (with warning to the bad guy first!) with his entire family in the car behind him as backstop.
It’s glorious I tell you. Always feel-good, and the good guys always win.
Honestly, the premise is so far removed from reality, yet the setting so familiar, it’s quite the concept, I tell you.
My father binges this ad nauseam. Boomer Selleck appeals to Boomers and the show furthers the Right/Conservative/Normie delusion of hope in the system. Excellent escapism, but those consuming it often don’t realize that important fact.
Well, yes, looking at this as of it had any relationship to reality would be akin to jumping out of a fifth floor window because you watched the film “superman” and now think you can fly.