A big season for returning characters.
Full House vet Lori Loughlin’s TV career very publicly went belly-up due to her involvement in the college admissions scandal, but she’s spent recent years regaining ground in holiday movies for Great American Family, a pair of When Hope Calls episodes, and a self-jabbing Curb Your Enthusiasm guest spot, to name a few. Now she’s heading back to New York City for CBS’ Blue Bloods, where she’ll pop back up as vindictive widow Grace Edwards, more than eight years after the character’s debut.
Fans will possibly remember in the Season 7 premiere when Tom Selleck’s Frank met Loughlin’s Grace at the memorial ceremony for her husband Martin Edwards, who was killed in the line of duty a decade prior. Her arc involved asking Frank to unfairly flunk her son Louis out of the NYPD training academy, in the hopes that he wouldn’t meet the same fate as his father. Frank passed him, and Grace turned into a walking Evil Eye afterward.
Now let’s dig into why Grace is back in Frank and others’ lives just five episodes before Blue Bloods joins the long list of TV shows ending in 2024.
What Lori Loughlin’s Grace Is Doing Back In The Reagans’ Lives
I don’t want to project here, but it seems to me like Grace Edwards has spent none of the past eight years working on her anger issues where Frank Reagan is involved. According to the synopsis for her episode “New York Minute,” Grace appears to still holding onto her grief and rage over not just her husband’s death, but also Frank’s defiant call all those years ago. Is she going directly after Frank? Nope.
Just as his angering actions affected her son’s life, Grace’s target lies elsewhere in the Reagan family: Donnie Wahlberg’s Danny. Here’s the synopsis below:
Danny and Baez scrutinize an art gallery suspected of selling counterfeit pieces after a detective investigating the establishment is murdered. Also, Eddie is conflicted when she discovers her former partner turned social worker, Rachel Witten (Lauren Patten), crossed the line to get a mentally ill client much needed help; and Frank is upset when an award Danny was to be honored with is rescinded by Grace Edwards (Lori Loughlin), the widow of an NYPD officer killed in the line of duty.
Revenge is a dish best served nearly a decade later and completely out of the blue (bloods regular cast). While that doesn’t lay out exactly what Grace’s role is in the world that gives her the ability to yoink an award out of Danny Reagan’s reach. Or what kind of move Frank is gonna pull after that to make her regret it. [Runs thumb across throat slowly.]
