Blue Bloods Season 14 Finally Adds A Fresh Twist To The Show's Joe Reagan Fixation

It’s Joe Reagan’s son, Joe Hill (Will Hochman), whom Frank asks for help in figuring out what to do about Mike McFadden. While Joe is initially horrified by the notion of a Malevsky dispensing justice, Frank asks Joe to meet with Mike and then give him his honest opinion about the situation, both as someone who knows what it is to be a cop laboring under the weight of a well-known family name and as a person who knows what it’s like to lose a father.

Ultimately, Joe and Mike bond over being raised by their maternal lines and living as fatherless sons. Joe finds a sense of empathy for Mike and realizes he’s nothing like his father. That’s good enough for Frank, who declares that Mike won’t be forced to leave the police work behind. Frank does, however, say that Mike will be disciplined for lying on his application. The result is further closure for Joe, one of Frank’s better moments on “Blue Bloods,” a new beginning for Mike — and, for the show itself, a completely different approach to an often stale and frequently revisited storyline.