Donnie Wahlberg‘s Boston Blue character Danny will proceed to face challenges in his relationship with son Sean following an onscreen recast.
The Blue Bloods spinoff, which aired its midseason finale on Friday, December 19, followed Danny attempting to get to a greater place with Sean (Mika Amonsen) now that they were living in the identical place. The daddy-son duo faced their fair proportion of ups and downs, which keep getting explored within the second half of the season.
“Especially within the back half of the season, we spend time putting them together in situations that force them to take a look at one another in recent lights,” executive producer Brandon Sonnier teased exclusively to Us Weekly. “They force Sean to wish to attempt to prove himself to his father, which is a thing that he’s at all times done. But now on one other level, to start out to acknowledge that he’s his own man.”
Sonnier promised Sean would learn more about his dad.
“He has lessons to learn from his father but there are also lessons he must be on the market learning on his own. Then from the opposite side, that is as close as Danny has ever been to Sean. Each physically — they’re in the identical space and now Sean is at work too,” he continued. “So that they’re together for loads more time than they ever have been.”
Sonnier continued: “Danny is learning things about his son that surprise him, things about his son that that he admires and things about his son that he sees pitfalls that he can assist him avoid. That relationship through the back half of the season really gets to grow and blossom. In addition they hit some some tough spots — as all relationships do.”
Danny’s journey in Recent York was featured on CBS’ Blue Bloods, which ran from 2010 to 2024. The spinoff, which premiered in October, kicked off with Danny visiting Boston after Sean ended up in a coma. This version of Sean looked just a little different after the role was previously played by Andrew Terraciano.
“There’s been some negativity, needless to say,” Amonsen exclusively told Us last month about taking on the role. “But after I look under those posts which have the negativity, there’s plenty of fans rallying for Sean and other people saying that they really enjoyed this character that I’ve created — or my version of character.”
Amonsen noted that he desired to make Blue Bloods fans joyful along with his performance, saying, “They’re really having fun with the show they usually love where it’s getting in terms of Sean and that makes me joyful.”
The actor recalled feeling “a ton of pressure” over the situation.
“I felt the pressure to respect an actor before me because I desired to respect Andrew the very best I could. There have been even certain visual selections that I made that I desired to keep by way of hair styling and certain ways of being [as Sean],” he continued. “I really need to keep up Sean as close as I can within the ways in which I do it out of respect for this character that everybody loves — but additionally the character Andrew built.”
He continued: “Once I booked the show, all of it happened really quickly. It was inside about per week’s time and I used to be really thrown into it quickly. I did binge watch as much as I could and I discovered doing the later seasons was more helpful. I desired to get a way of who Sean was toward the top of the show. I actually desired to get a way of his character at that time into maturity and his relationship with Danny.”
Terraciano, meanwhile, broke his silence to Us in regards to the shakeup.
“I had any person call me — actually the day that I used to be graduating — they usually had spoken to my mom and he or she called me [crying]. They were like, ‘They could be in search of a unique Sean,’” Terraciano shared with Us in December in regards to the onscreen change. “Shortly after we got the news, Donnie called me. It was a extremely beautiful moment of attending to hear from an old friend but additionally any person that you simply respect a lot and have learned a lot from.”
Terraciano expressed gratitude for his time on Blue Bloods.
“It’s beautiful since you’ll at all times remember each line and on daily basis that you simply had the chance to be that character,” he shared. “It doesn’t mean for even a second that any person else can’t go and do something beautiful with it.”
Terraciano continued: “I got the enjoyment of playing Sean, and I got to send him off into the world. Now any person else gets that joy. We’re each getting to indicate what we do after which send Sean off into the world.”
Boston Blue airs on CBS Fridays at 10 p.m. ET.