“I love the Reagan Sunday dinners… but some nights feel like I’m trapped at the table with them.”
You see comments like that all the time under Blue Bloods clips on Facebook and Reddit. For fourteen seasons, the Reagan family’s Sunday dinner has been sold as comfort TV: real food, real arguments, real grace before the meal.
But rewatch closely and you’ll notice something darker: there are nights when one long table simply can’t hold a family that’s breaking along fault lines of power, politics, grief and guilt.
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