Blue Bloods is Not The Only Show With Bizarre Dinner Scenes
Family dinners are one of the most important things in life for any member of the Reagan family. They happen every week on Sunday night and everyone in the family has to attend them no matter what.
This seems like either a very sweet or a very forced tradition with no in-between options…
Especially if you remember that time when Linda got shot at the hospital and had to miss the family dinner as well as Danny, the other Reagans put two speakers at the dinner table, called Linda and Danny, and even sent them delicious meals straight to the hospital.
Fans' opinions on this tradition are divided: some call it the most useless part of the show while others admit that they wait for the family dinner scenes more eagerly than for anything else in Blue Bloods.
Either way, it's an interesting writing choice — or a bizarre one, depending on who you're asking.
But the thing is, Blue Bloods is neither the first nor the only show to have incorporated such a tradition into the main family characters' lives: years before it, Gilmore Girls did just the same!
In Gilmore Girls, the Gilmore family had so-called Friday Night Dinners that worked pretty much the same as in Blue Bloods apart from the fact that they felt way more forced.
They were an attempt to rebuild the family's relationship, but admittedly, they served a wholly different purpose, too.
You see, for a family dinner, Sunday nights work best: no one has any other plans anyways, and since this type of dinner is pretty tame and civilized, they're perfect for a night before Monday.
This is exactly why the Reagans always had their dinners on Sunday nights.
So why did the Gilmores have them on Fridays? Many fans seem to agree that it was a demonstration of power from Emily, the mother of the family.
Friday nights are the worst and the most inconvenient time for a family meeting: everyone's exhausted after work, all the parties are scheduled on Friday nights, and many people have to still work then — like Lorelai, Emily's daughter, who has an inn which is crowded on Fridays.
There's literally no other reason to choose Fridays other than to show the rest of the family members that they have to submit before your will.
Since Friday Night Dinners were a weekly tradition, it had the other family members canceling and rescheduling their plans and invitations all the time.
So the Blue Bloods' Reagans had it easy: in comparison to the Gilmore's variant, their family dinners were likely more about union and support…
At least they were specifically scheduled in a way that's convenient for everyone and not the other way around.