Rambler

I thought it was hilarious how after Danny shot the guy and started feeling regret and compassion for the mother like any other normal human being would do, everyone was all "OMG there is something wrong with Danny!" Gramps was like "Remember when Linda was alive and you were shooting suspects left and right, you could go home and talk to her about it. Then the next day, you would be back to beating suspects, intimidating witnesses, and insulting fellow officers like normal. You need to get laid so that you can return to being the raging, uncaring asshole that we all know and love!"

I must say that I am very confused with the NYPD's policies. So a cop accidently shoots and kills a little girl and Frank immediately goes to the cop and tells him he can see an NYPD grief counselor and even offers him an administrative job while he works through his issues. Meanwhile a few episodes back, a decorated detective with many years of experience becomes a new father and hesitates to shoot a suspect in a gunfight. Does he get the same consideration? Nope, he is immediately forced to retire under threat of losing his pension. I wonder what sort of message Frank is sending to his officers? “If you get into gunfight, you better goddam kill somebody or I have no sympathy for ya!” Heh

I remember in the Vegas season, Kevin won the quickfire and then got to eat with the esteemed guest judges who included Joel Robuchon and Hubert Keller among others. Ordinarily I don’t like it when a chef gets to sit out a challenge. I just want to see what dishes all the chefs can come up with to fit the challenge. I’ll make an exception in this case however, because shots of Eddie sitting around looking dazed and confused was pretty funny. He is such a goofball that he might be my new favorite now that Michelle is gone.

When Isaac went to the two bozos for advice after Claire dumped him, I had a brief thought that they were going to glue a mustache on his face. I was so so disappointed when that didn't happen. Isaac in his underwear spouting insults totally made up for it though. Is the actor playing Claire’s son some sort of musical prodigy? I don't know a thing about pianos, but it looked like he was playing the notes for realz.

Wow I didn't believe this show could get any dumber than it already was, but implying that psychics have real powers raises it past Hawaii 5-O levels of stupidity. OK I lied, I can believe it.

When Michelle started popping up in the talking heads all of a sudden, I figured she either won or she was doomed. Glad it was the former and not the latter. I can kind of see now why the editors haven't had her on very much in the previous episodes. She has this kind of droning voice that would put an insomniac to sleep. That's probably what happened to Eddie in the car. A couple of miles of listening to her droning on and he was out like a light. Haha I joke, she is still my favorite this season.

Boat Rental Company: “Say here’s a great idea - let’s lend Top Chef a couple of boats for their lake competition. It will be great publicity for the company!” Top Chef: “Rent a boat from these guys and you will have electrical problems that won’t be fixed for hours.”

Really Dick Wolf??? What’s with this Paul Revere University BS. Everybody knows that Hudson University is the choice of terrorist professors everywhere!

I found it funny that Tani’s brother had to explain to the two geniuses that the overdose scene was staged. Did they think that people injecting drugs just leave the needle sticking in their arms? Also you would think that they would remove the tourniquets since that would tend to hinder the drugs from going where they needed to go. Well you see Tani removed her badge. According to 5-0 logic, as soon as she took her badge off and started whaling on the guy, the restaurant crowd was like "OMG some strange woman is beating a dude up. Where'd that cop go??? She was just here a second ago!!!"

I guess Blue Bloods doesn't appreciate the recent trend of right wingers like Sarah Huckabee-Sanders and Mitch McConnell having their dining out in public being disturbed by protesters, so let's do a story about Frank getting the same treatment. First of all, of course the protest will be led by your typical angry minority college professor who is brainwashing our impressionable youths into thinking the police are Nazi storm troopers because everyone knows that's all that happens on librul elite college campuses these days. So tell us professor, what exactly is the NYPD doing that has you all riled up? Now that's a tricky question, because a specific answer might point out an NYPD policy that would cause some in the audience to have sympathy for the protestors and we can't have that. OK so we'll just leave that part of the story out. But hold on – Houston we have a problem. If we can't get into the issue of why the protestors are so angry, how are we going to fill in the rest of the hour? I got it! We'll just add this extraneous issue of a guy pretending that the commissioner's car ran over his foot. Now we can spend the rest of the episode watching in awe as Saint Frank exposes this lefty professor of fake news for the charlatan that she is. Problem solved in true Blue Bloods fashion! Then to top it all off, we have Frank’s absurd speechifying at the dinner table. Something about protesting all you want when you are in college, but after you graduate, then STFU because no one will take you seriously anymore. I'm sure Rosa Parks and the other civil rights activists from the '60s would have appreciated such advice, right Frank?

The editors showing Third Coast’s overconfidence in the beginning seems like ominous foreshadowing. Eddie Money asking the butcher for the cheapest cuts of meat was funny. Lesson learned. This is a reality show so I think the producers want the FOH chaos. I also think that a chef that can pull off a perfect service despite all the handicaps is one of the more impressive and memorable things a chef can accomplish all season.

The biggest surprise of this episode was that I found out there is a chef named Michelle competing this season. She had a talking head pop up where she mentioned Eric Ripert had visited her restaurant and I was like "Who the hell is that??? I’ve never seen her before have I?" And then she promptly disappeared for the rest of the episode until the judges tasted her dish and proclaimed it to be "meh". OK Michelle, you are now my new favorite chef on this show. I have soft spot for the chefs who make the sacrifice to spend all that time away from their families only to have about 30 seconds of air time each week to show for it.

I was so hoping that they would cut to scenes of the bad guys making WTF faces every time they showed Pride talking to the blonde figment of his imagination, but I guess the entire conversations were going on inside his head? On the other hand, assassin lady heard him mumbling to himself that one time so it seemed totally inconsistent if he was speaking out loud or not. I just thought they could have had the funniest episode ever if they could have shown the bad guys scrambling around trying to make heads or tails of Pride’s half of those loony conversations.

Ugh, I hate when the writers do this. The NCIS team shows up at the suspect's apartment to question him. The suspect asks if they have a warrant and since they don't, he informs them he won't be answering their questions and tries to close the door. Gibbs just slams the door into the suspect's face, thus assaulting him, and then essentially breaks into the guy's apartment. Torres informs the suspect he will be searching his bedroom, which again would be totally illegal, so the suspect draws a gun and they shoot him dead with zero ramifications afterwards. Oh well, the guy was a scumbag so I guess NCIS was perfectly justified in using Gestapo tactics. Why didn't the writers do something like have the baby start crying when Gibbs was at the door? Then they could claim exigent circumstances for breaking into the guy's apartment. But nope, the writers are just too lazy to spend an extra ten minutes to think of a reason why a law enforcement agency could at least make a pretense of following the law.

About what you can expect from your typical Blue Bloods episode. What happens when a truck carrying athletic sneakers breaks down in a black neighborhood? Of course the resident looters are just waiting around ready to swarm the truck within 10 seconds of it breaking down. The black ADA can't handle being threatened and does something stupid. Fortunately his white boss is there to save him from himself. Then we can wrap things up with the stereotypical black music mogul who punches his BFF, not because he killed his lover, but because he didn't ask permission first. Oh well, at least I got a laugh at Sid channeling his inner Trump "It was a Sting, a Beautiful Sting!!!"

Silly NCIS agents. Don't they know by now that it's always the civilian contractor who is the guilty party? At least the writers didn't identify him as a civilian contractor until the very last moment or that would have killed any suspense in the episode.

Thank God the NCIS team was able to save the bad guy's life. Now he can be properly waterboarded to death by the super-secret covert black ops government agency.

So if a good detective with many years of experience freezes up during a shootout because he's a new daddy, the NYPD policy is to fire him? They can't give him a desk job, or let him see a psychologist to try to work through his issues? Seems a bit harsh. Of course Frank is always right. Let these librul D.A.s stop enforcing the marijuana laws and see what happens. Soon people will be posting videos of drug deals being done on the trunks of cop cars! What’s next? Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!!!

If that was the case, I wonder what happened to the witness? I guess the witness lived or else it would have been mentioned at the press conference. So if he was some sort of a hitman, then he was the world's worst one. First he gets busted for possession before he can get to his target, then he shoots two cops, but lets the witness get away, and then is caught soon after. He was so bad that the police didn't even need the powers of Super-Danny to solve the case. I guess it's hard to find good help these days.

So what was never explained is why the bomber's boyfriend was driving around downtown New Orleans like a maniac. Was he a drunk driver or something? Thanks to that idiot we probably missed out on the birth of the Taco Pizza! He deserved to die.

It was totally unrealistic that a corporate CEO would show up to an interrogation without a lawyer. But what is even more unrealistic is that the chief of staff to a disgraced senator, who was caught taking bribes from the oil and gas industry, would be reduced to taking a telemarketing job. In this day and age, the oil and gas industry would just give him a high paying job as a corporate lobbyist.

II guess the message Frank was trying to convey to Erin was that all non-violent drug offenders should never be released from jail, because they would then decide to do such things as shoot police officers the moment they are released. Especially the Mexican ones. Well I would tend to disagree with that since that whole War on Drugs thingy didn't turn out so well, but maybe I could start to see the other side of the argument if the lazy-ass writers would just give me a reason the two officers were shot. I mean it seemed like the guy gets off with a slap on the wrist and then he's like "Muwahaha thanks to those dumb librul D.A.s I got sprung from jail after a few nights. I guess I'll just go murder a couple of cops because of the inconvenience".

What was the cat doing at the FBI safehouse? Was the owner one of those cat fanatics that has to drag his cat everywhere, even to work? Seems unprofessional and a major security risk considering that anyone could have tracked the cat to the safehouse via the chip. Speaking of the chip, Magnum seriously didn’t know about implanting chips in pets? And he was struggling to pick the lock on the door. Is Magnum supposed to be an incompetent P.I. on this show? I guess that would explain his lack of paying clients.

Yep exactly. The writers should have had Gibbs saying "Call the judge and get me a warrant to ping the location." somewhere in the middle of that conversation.

Whoa they actually let the SWAT guys take the lead in the rescue mission and shoot the bad guy. Usually in these types of shows only the lead actors are allowed to shoot the bad guys and the SWAT guys serve as glorified target practice dummies. I also liked how little Gracie was all smiles when she was reunited with her mommy and frowning at her daddy like she knew exactly what he had been up to. I predict some turbulent teenage years in the future.