Boston Blue Finale Explained: Maria Baez, Joe Hill Return — Lena’s Boyfriend Dead Or Alive?
TVLINE | Sarah and Seth are engaged, and the finale ends on a happy note: Seth’s ex has agreed to let Phoebe stay in Boston and live with him and Sarah. Are you already thinking about a wedding in Season 2? I mean, you guys have got a pretty great reverend on hand to officiate if needed.
MARGOLIS | You know, we love a good wedding story and we love the Silver family growing larger, so that’s absolutely a story thread we’re going to continue. We love Sarah and Phoebe’s relationship, and seeing Sarah step into the role of stepmother a little bit more. And we love Mike Vogel as Seth, and it’s a lot of fun having him around and mixing it up with the family, so we’re just going to keep riding that train.
TVLINE | District Attorney Mae Silver is up for reelection. Which is going to prove a bigger complication for her campaign: Her relationship with Judge Elijah Robinson, or her smarmy opponent with the best villain name currently on broadcast television, Thad Longfellow?
MARGOLIS | [Laughs] The answer is both! It’s going to be a wild ride for Mae. We introduced Thad and fell in love with the actor immediately. And he has, in the best possible, professional way, the most punchable face, and we loved the energy he brought. He’s such a nice man, and I would never punch him, but he plays such a great foil for Mae that we just can’t wait to get into a campaign and see where all that goes. And there’s plenty of dirt that’s going to be unveiled.
TVLINE | Did you guys have a list of villain names? Because that one, I mean… I rewound the episode, wondering, “Did they say Chad?” But no, it’s Thad. Thad is better!
SONNIER | Isn’t that better? [Laughs] That came from one of our writers. He said the name. We were like, “Yeah, that’s it.”
MARGOLIS | “Exactly that! That’s the name!”
TVLINE | It’s kind of like the reverse mullet of names: Party in the front, business in the back! But switching gears… Jonah, at one point in the finale, seems to express some doubt that as a patrol officer, he’s making much of a difference in people’s lives. It almost sounds like — and tell me if I’m reading too much into that dialogue between him and Rev. Peters — that he might prefer to be in a role that involves a bit more community outreach. Should we read anything into that, particularly as it relates to his partnership with Sean heading into Season 2?
SONNIER | I think what you can read into that is that Jonah, and our show, would like to explore all kinds of policing. So it’s not necessarily about leaving policing. The fact that that might be where your head goes is one of the things we would like to address. Through Jonah, we get to take a look at a police officer who has internal dialogue of, “Are we doing the best for the community at large, and not just taking on bad guys?” Being a policeman can be more than just addressing the bad elements of our community. The question of, “Is there more that can be done there?” launches into a great Season 2 arc for him.
TVLINE | And I imagine, if Lena and Danny are out chasing the bad guys, this opens the show up to a different kind of B-story.
SONNIER | Right. We get to look at different forms of policing. It doesn’t have to mean less exciting, it just gives us another angle that we can take and really explore, through these characters, the character of policing itself.
