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\n\tSPOILER ALERT:<\/strong>\u00a0This story contains spoilers from \u201cFaith and Family,\u201d the series premiere of CBS\u2019 \u201cBoston Blue<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWhen \u201cBlue Bloods\u201d came to an end last year after 14 seasons, there were multiple questions viewers still had about what happened to the Reagan clan. Luckily, with spinoff \u201cBoston Blue,\u201d led by Donnie Wahlberg\u2019s Dannie Reagan, they got one big answer in the first moments of the Oct. 17 premiere.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the finale, Danny finally<\/em> asked his longtime partner, Maria Baez (Marisa Ramirez) to get pizza. And in the first minutes of the premiere, he was shown in bed with Baez; their banter returned, this time with a romantic twist.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOnce we realized we were getting a chance to continue Danny Reagan\u2019s story, Brandon and I looked at what the dangling threads were from the finale, and what was owed. Obviously, the big one was what happened when they went out for pizza,\u201d co-showrunner Brandon Margolis tells Variety<\/em>. \u201cWe really did want to feel like this show is continuing that story in fairly real time. It\u2019s going to be about a year since the finale was off the air, so if Danny and Baez were together, where are they at, and what would that look like? How could that potentially complicate a journey going from New York to Boston? It was important to us we pay service to that and continue to establish that relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWhile Ramirez hasn\u2019t yet signed on to more episodes, the relationship will continue, Sonnier confirms. \u201cLong-distance relationships are a thing. I think we can expect to play that relationship through and really get a sense of where they are in the progression of this relationship that we\u2019ve been watching for a decade,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a four-hour drive!\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tMika Amonsen as Sean Reagan<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCBS<\/p>\n \n\tIn the premiere, Danny pairs up with Detective Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Green), the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family \u2014 something he knows a thing or two about \u2014 in Boston. He\u2019s taking on a new role with the Boston Police Department in order to stay close to his son, Sean (Mika Amonsen), after he suffers an injury while on the job as a police officer.<\/p>\n \n\tOne big difference from \u201cBlue Bloods\u201d is that Sean has been recast; while Andrew Terraciano played the character for 292 episodes of \u201cBlue Bloods,\u201d Mika Amonsen has taken over the role for the spinoff.<\/p>\n \n\tWe love Andrew and the work he did over the years on \u2018Blue Bloods.\u2019 Really, it came down to we\u2019re telling a new chapter in both of their lives. It\u2019s not just Sean who has joined the family business as it were and is turning over this new leaf, but it\u2019s also now Danny Reagan is the father to a cop, which he\u2019s never been before,\u201d explains Margolis. \u201cSo there are all these new storytelling lanes to explore. It felt like there was an organic opportunity to bring in a new performance with a new energy, to help dramatize that change. It is the same character, it\u2019s the same relationship, but it\u2019s also completely different. We love what Mika has brought to Sean, this vulnerability, yet this desire to prove himself. It\u2019s just been great to watch it come to life.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tSonequa Martin-Green as Lena Silver, Bridget Moynahan as Erin Reagan Boyle, and Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCBS<\/p>\n \n\tThe show will have a similar tone to \u201cBlue Bloods\u201d and will likely include more familiar faces. Bridget Moynahan\u2019s Erin Raegan appeared in the premiere, arriving in Boston to make sure Danny was okay, which seems to be just the start.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cCan we expect some family members? Can we expect some visits and some trips? Yes, we can,\u201d co-showrunner Brandon Sonnier adds. \u201cWe truly mean that we are an expansion of the universe. It\u2019s not just a run-of-the-mill spinoff. It is a different look at a different dynastic law enforcement family through the eyes of the Reagans. But the Reagans exist. They are still out there in the world, living those lives that we watched for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tPlus, every episode will feature a family dinner \u2014 the Silver family\u2019s Shabbat dinner, which was part of the premiere, which Danny and Erin excitedly joined.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe will have Shabbat dinner every episode. We hope to honor the original show and their Sunday dinners were so much a fabric of what that show was about, what that family was about,\u201d says Sonnier. \u201cOne of the things Donnie would always tell us about was how many real-life law enforcement people he would meet over the course of working on \u2018Blue Bloods\u2019 would express how much they appreciated that the Reagan family reminded them of their family. They would sit down and they would have dinner. This is an organic way to continue that universe. It\u2019s something we do. I sit down to dinner as often as possible with my family. I have four young children. Everyone\u2019s got baseball and dance and all the things that people have. But as often as we can, we sit down and we do celebrate Shabbat, so Friday is our time that we get to connect as a family.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBoston Blue\u201d airs at 10 p.m. ET on CBS and streams on Paramount+ the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SPOILER ALERT:\u00a0This story contains spoilers from \u201cFaith and Family,\u201d the series premiere of CBS\u2019 \u201cBoston Blue.\u201d When \u201cBlue Bloods\u201d came to an end last year after 14 seasons, there were multiple questions viewers still had about what happened to the Reagan clan. 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