My favorite show! Good clean suspense, drama, acting. Tom Selleck is great! Audience spared gory photography. Good for teens to watch for life lessons. The ancient rite of Sunday family dinner is celebrated. I converted to Orthodox Judaism from Catholicism. This gives me insight in to the authenticity of the show. I remember the Catholic Church before 1950. Grace before Meals is correct wording. The parental love is genuine.Sponsors should be craving to sponsor this show. They can be sure families will not change channels.

The only thing good about this show is that you quickly feel for the characters right from the start. But is that enough to keep the show afloat? I don't think so. The premise is borderline ridiculous - a single NY family consisting of the NY police commissioner, a former NY police commissioner, a DA attorney, a detective, and a beat cop. Oh and they're Irish. Let's be real ok? Every episode is stand-alone. The stories don't require more than one episode to start and finish. Apart from the weak ongoing Blue Templar theme, which in my opinion just doesn't grab the viewer enough to maintain interest in the show. If they don't pick up the pace with the writing, I doubt that the great ensemble of characters and their stellar performances will be enough to keep this show afloat for another season. I'm quickly losing interest.

The cast is more than competent, but the stereotypes are heavy enough to flatten the most fawning Selleck groupies. A family of Irish cops (named Reagan, for the love of heaven) who predictably say grace before the Sunday dinner clan gathering. Selleck just naturally has to be a widower so he can be both fatherly and sexy - a younger and hot looking woman is hovering in the wings. Then there's the crusty, lovable grandfather (didn't we do all this last year on NCIS?) and the intense son who must be forgiven his willingness to bash suspects' heads into toilet bowls because - of course - he's an Iraq vet. I was hopeful about this show because of its writers, but really it could have been written by a team of bright high schoolers. One cliche' after another.

Ok, I'm not sure who owed who a favor when doing this show, or maybe Mark Wahlberg tried to get his bro Jonny Drama into TV series but I haven't seen that bad of an acting since I think... hmm let me see, Cop Rock ! How come every single sentence written for those guys sounds fake and has nothing to do with reality? Watch The Shield or Chicago P.D. or Law and Order for god sake before doing the show next time, pleaaase

This deeply biased script is reflective of the American conceits of rigid self-righteousness and unfounded faith in police and military. It simplifies life and law into the dichotomy of good and evil, which at times gets pretty agonizing to watch. Good guys are often vilified and the Reagan family is pedastalized as the archetypal American family. You get the usual amount of hand-waving logistics and use of one-dimensional minority stereotypes to further plotlines. The redeeming quality of the show is the excellent acting (It's as if the police commissioner's role was written with Tom Selleck's mustache in mind!). Also, the camerawork and editing weren't too shabby either. Warning to POC: save yourself from this tasteless mayonnaise salad and stick with Law & Order.