Boston's Finest

One of the cool things about being from a major city is when television and movies shoot in your home town. The Wahlberg's are also two of the cities favorite celebrities so the fact that Donny Wahlberg is so heavily involved in the show just adds to its appeal for a Bostonian. The show is a documentary style look at the Boston police force. It follows a few different police officers that are in a number of different units of the department. Regular patrol men and women, drug investigators, and detectives give the viewers a complete inside look into Boston's crime fighting scene. Just like any major city there  is plenty of action, but the show also covers some of the personal lives of the reappearing characters.

My favorite part of the show is obviously seeing the city I grew up in on TV, but I also really like the pace of the show. The show really takes on the schedule of the police officers it's about. There are times where the specific characters are just with their families and friends, and we get to see what they are really like not just what their job turns them into. Then all the sudden they are in the thick of a drug bust and the shots are much more shaky and fast paced. I think it would be an unrealistic depiction of the job if they only showed the police officers running down criminals. Of course that is part of their job, but we have too many shows on TV that just try to show people that side of their personalities. People want to see gun fights, chases, and people getting arrested. It makes good TV. But Boston's Finest breaks away from that script and takes us in to these peoples lives.

Probably the coolest scene of the entire show for me was when the patrol men pulled someone over right outside my aunts apartment. But I think that everyone can like this show, not just people from Boston.