Blue Bloods Only Exist Because The Sopranos Writers Wanted to Redeem Themselves

The show first aired on CBS in 2010 and immediately caught the attention of critics and fans.

The first reason, of course, is the brilliant cast, which includes Tom Selleck, the actor famous not only for his talent but also for his mustache.

The idea of the show was actually unprecedented, especially in a world where procedural crime dramas have long had their own place.

However, the show also features the good guys catching bad guys and solving controversial cases along the way. But at the heart of the show is an entirely different story.

It's the story of a generational family that has had strong professional ties within the New York legal system for a long time.

But it's not the storyline that had fans gasping after the show premiered.

It turns out that the creators of Blue Bloods are the same guys who wrote the iconic Soprano series,Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess.

They spent many years mastering the story of the Sopranos, ironically also a big family, but on the other side of the law.

Sure, it sounds weird now. Because when you write about mobsters for six seasons, you kind of become an expert. And then you accidentally turn to the other side.

But according to both writers, after years of portraying these deeply troubled, dark characters, they were definitely happy to find out how the heroes are created.

"We did the anti-hero for all those years, it was wonderful, it's an old tradition…but every great character you see on TV right now is dark, they have a problem, we were very interested, as a curative after the Sopranos, to find out what a hero is," Green said in the interview with Deadline.

It seems that the writers just got tired of describing the villains, which is why the idea of the Blue Bloods came up in the first place.

Despite the fact that they only had a chance to stay on the show for one season, they are still the reason why there is a huge success called Blue Bloods.