Blue Bloods Season 13 Finale Date Confirmed, Renewal Still Pending
Fans are wondering if their favorite show will be renewed for season 14.
The CBS crime series about the Reagan police dynasty has managed to exceed expectations, becoming one of the most-watched shows on network television since its premiere in 2010 — despite most critics claiming that Blue Bloods would be forgotten after the first couple of seasons. The series starring Tom Selleck has now aired for 13 seasons, and it continues to draw millions of viewers to each weekly episode.
But will the show be renewed for a 14th season, fans wonder?
CBS recently announced that the season 13 finale will air on Friday, May 19, and with no news on the renewal, people are worried that the channel may be stalling the popular procedural.
While Blue Bloods continues to rack up impressive numbers, the show itself has undergone significant changes, recently losing its interesting subplots and the overall narrative becoming dull over the past couple of seasons.
Fans have long criticized the writers of Blue Bloods, arguing that with each successive season the series has become more and more of a soap opera, moving away from the realistic atmosphere it once had.
The main characters have become a kind of caricature of themselves of late, and sadly, the reason for that is quite obvious: it's extremely hard to keep developing the same characters for 13 consecutive seasons without slipping into trite and superficial storylines.
Blue Bloods has always been about crime and interesting professional plots, with almost no focus on the characters' romantic relationships.
With this approach to the series, the writers need to constantly come up with unique and believable weekly cases to maintain their viewership numbers, and they have been failing at this for quite some time now.
While it would be very sad to see Blue Bloods end after season 13, some fans argue that it's much more painful to watch as the series turns into a superficial version of itself. Perhaps CBS should listen to the fans and either change their approach to writing the series or cancel it for good.
Blue Bloods season 13 episode 16 will arrive on CBS on March 31, 2023.