"Blue Bloods": Why Danny Didn't Bring Detective Baez to Reagan Family Dinner in Series Finale

[Ubiquitous]

The Blue Bloods series finale ended with one final Reagan family dinner, and
while it was as full as ever, Detective Maria Baez was surprisingly absent.
For several seasons, many fans have been wanting Donnie Wahlberg’s Danny
Reagan and Marisa Ramirez’s Baez to get together. It was unknown if that
would ever actually happen, but in the finale, the two partners wound up
going to get pizza together, finally going on a date.

Despite them seemingly together and the family dinner including some special
guests of the Reagan family, Baez did not participate in the weekly get-
together. Executive producer Kevin Wade told Deadline that it “didn’t really
come to the forefront.” He continued, “Because at the end of their last scene
together, there was a hint of a whiff of a promise that they were going to
leave that squad and go off to dinner and end up at one or the other’s house,
yes. But it felt like a big leap, with only two minutes left, after 14 years,
to introduce them like that at the dinner.”

“We’ve done it in Season 8 with Jamie and Eddie, and it felt like we had
plenty of tarmac to get there,” Wade explained. “This would have been a
little too quick, I think. To me, it was just too fast. But that’s one of
those things that I said before. Here’s what you can imagine in the future.
If you love the show, feel free to draw it for yourself. We just left little,
little crumbs there.”

While Baez has, of course, met most of the Reagans on the job, the family
dinner was a whole different environment. It’s likely Danny and Baez would be
waiting at least a little bit until she sat down for dinner. At the very
least, Baez is no stranger to the Reagan family dinners, having made her
first appearance in the Season 11 premiere. But with the detectives basically
going out now, that would certainly be different.

That being said, it would have been nice to see at least a bit of Danny and
Baez’s romantic relationship since the wait was so long for them to get
together, whether getting pizza or at the family dinner. But this does leave
fans to wonder what will happen next with them. There have been rumored
discussions of a potential spinoff or TV movie, so it’s possible that this
won’t be the last fans see of them. All 14 seasons of Blue Bloods are
streaming on Paramount+ in the meantime.

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Let's go Brandon!

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Post by Ubiquitous
The Blue Bloods series finale ended with one final Reagan family dinner, and
while it was as full as ever, Detective Maria Baez was surprisingly absent.
For several seasons, many fans have been wanting Donnie Wahlberg’s Danny
Reagan and Marisa Ramirez’s Baez to get together. It was unknown if that
would ever actually happen, but in the finale, the two partners wound up
going to get pizza together, finally going on a date.
Despite them seemingly together and the family dinner including some special
guests of the Reagan family, Baez did not participate in the weekly get-
together. Executive producer Kevin Wade told Deadline that it “didn’t really
come to the forefront.” He continued, “Because at the end of their last scene
together, there was a hint of a whiff of a promise that they were going to
leave that squad and go off to dinner and end up at one or the other’s house,
yes. But it felt like a big leap, with only two minutes left, after 14 years,
to introduce them like that at the dinner.”
“We’ve done it in Season 8 with Jamie and Eddie, and it felt like we had
plenty of tarmac to get there,” Wade explained. “This would have been a
little too quick, I think. To me, it was just too fast. But that’s one of
those things that I said before. Here’s what you can imagine in the future.
If you love the show, feel free to draw it for yourself. We just left little,
little crumbs there.”
While Baez has, of course, met most of the Reagans on the job, the family
dinner was a whole different environment. It’s likely Danny and Baez would be
waiting at least a little bit until she sat down for dinner. At the very
least, Baez is no stranger to the Reagan family dinners, having made her
first appearance in the Season 11 premiere. But with the detectives basically
going out now, that would certainly be different.
That being said, it would have been nice to see at least a bit of Danny and
Baez’s romantic relationship since the wait was so long for them to get
together, whether getting pizza or at the family dinner. But this does leave
fans to wonder what will happen next with them. There have been rumored
discussions of a potential spinoff or TV movie, so it’s possible that this
won’t be the last fans see of them. All 14 seasons of Blue Bloods are
streaming on Paramount+ in the meantime.

They gave them a whole extra season to wrap stuff up and they didn’t do
squat with it

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Let's go Brandon!

[Rhino]

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Post by Ubiquitous
The Blue Bloods series finale ended with one final Reagan family dinner, and
while it was as full as ever, Detective Maria Baez was surprisingly absent.
For several seasons, many fans have been wanting Donnie Wahlberg’s Danny
Reagan and Marisa Ramirez’s Baez to get together. It was unknown if that
would ever actually happen, but in the finale, the two partners wound up
going to get pizza together, finally going on a date.
Despite them seemingly together and the family dinner including some special
guests of the Reagan family, Baez did not participate in the weekly get-
together. Executive producer Kevin Wade told Deadline that it “didn’t really
come to the forefront.” He continued, “Because at the end of their last scene
together, there was a hint of a whiff of a promise that they were going to
leave that squad and go off to dinner and end up at one or the other’s house,
yes. But it felt like a big leap, with only two minutes left, after 14 years,
to introduce them like that at the dinner.”
“We’ve done it in Season 8 with Jamie and Eddie, and it felt like we had
plenty of tarmac to get there,” Wade explained. “This would have been a
little too quick, I think. To me, it was just too fast. But that’s one of
those things that I said before. Here’s what you can imagine in the future.
If you love the show, feel free to draw it for yourself. We just left little,
little crumbs there.”
While Baez has, of course, met most of the Reagans on the job, the family
dinner was a whole different environment. It’s likely Danny and Baez would be
waiting at least a little bit until she sat down for dinner. At the very
least, Baez is no stranger to the Reagan family dinners, having made her
first appearance in the Season 11 premiere. But with the detectives basically
going out now, that would certainly be different.
That being said, it would have been nice to see at least a bit of Danny and
Baez’s romantic relationship since the wait was so long for them to get
together, whether getting pizza or at the family dinner. But this does leave
fans to wonder what will happen next with them. There have been rumored
discussions of a potential spinoff or TV movie, so it’s possible that this
won’t be the last fans see of them. All 14 seasons of Blue Bloods are
streaming on Paramount+ in the meantime.

They gave them a whole extra season to wrap stuff up and they didn’t do
squat with it

There was one truly cringeworthy moment in the final episode that I
didn't mention in my post in WDYW. It came when Danny told Eddie that
she was the toughest cop he knew! I get that he was trying to help her
get over any guilt for her partner getting killed but the whole notion
of Eddie being a tough cop, let alone the toughest of them all, is
maximum cringe. That's the one line I REALLY wish had never been uttered.

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Post by Ubiquitous
The Blue Bloods series finale ended with one final Reagan family dinner, and
while it was as full as ever, Detective Maria Baez was surprisingly absent.
For several seasons, many fans have been wanting Donnie Wahlberg’s Danny
Reagan and Marisa Ramirez’s Baez to get together. It was unknown if that
would ever actually happen, but in the finale, the two partners wound up
going to get pizza together, finally going on a date.
Despite them seemingly together and the family dinner including some special
guests of the Reagan family, Baez did not participate in the weekly get-
together. Executive producer Kevin Wade told Deadline that it “didn’t really
come to the forefront.” He continued, “Because at the end of their last scene
together, there was a hint of a whiff of a promise that they were going to
leave that squad and go off to dinner and end up at one or the other’s house,
yes. But it felt like a big leap, with only two minutes left, after 14 years,
to introduce them like that at the dinner.”
“We’ve done it in Season 8 with Jamie and Eddie, and it felt like we had
plenty of tarmac to get there,” Wade explained. “This would have been a
little too quick, I think. To me, it was just too fast. But that’s one of
those things that I said before. Here’s what you can imagine in the future.
If you love the show, feel free to draw it for yourself. We just left little,
little crumbs there.”
While Baez has, of course, met most of the Reagans on the job, the family
dinner was a whole different environment. It’s likely Danny and Baez would be
waiting at least a little bit until she sat down for dinner. At the very
least, Baez is no stranger to the Reagan family dinners, having made her
first appearance in the Season 11 premiere. But with the detectives basically
going out now, that would certainly be different.
That being said, it would have been nice to see at least a bit of Danny and
Baez’s romantic relationship since the wait was so long for them to get
together, whether getting pizza or at the family dinner. But this does leave
fans to wonder what will happen next with them. There have been rumored
discussions of a potential spinoff or TV movie, so it’s possible that this
won’t be the last fans see of them. All 14 seasons of Blue Bloods are
streaming on Paramount+ in the meantime.

They gave them a whole extra season to wrap stuff up and they didn’t do
squat with it

There was one truly cringeworthy moment in the final episode that I
didn't mention in my post in WDYW. It came when Danny told Eddie that
she was the toughest cop he knew! I get that he was trying to help her
get over any guilt for her partner getting killed but the whole notion
of Eddie being a tough cop, let alone the toughest of them all, is
maximum cringe. That's the one line I REALLY wish had never been uttered.

Eddie is so deranged that she believed him.