Watch: CBS Drama Blue Bloods Airs Hasidic Episode
The so-called hasidic episode of the CBS television drama Blue Bloods, Men in Black, aired Friday night. I haven't seen it but I've heard the show is a bit of an indictment of hasidim, especially of Satmar. Here's how you can watch it.
The so-called hasidic episode of the CBS television drama Blue Bloods, Men in Black, aired Friday night and is now online on the CBS website and posted immediately above as a YouTube video (and also as a Vimeo video) – although I suspect CBS will force YouTube to remove it soon unless the person who posted it had permission from CBS to do so. I haven't watched it yet but I've heard the show is a bit of an indictment of hasidim, especially of Satmar.
[Hat Tip: yussi.]
I've seen it. It's not an "indictment of hasidim". It's a routine police procedural, like most shows on CBS. The murderer turns out to be somebody who's having an affair with the dead guy's wife.
Just another episode of a cop show. NCIS is better.
Posted by: John Nagle, Silicon Valley, CA | February 10, 2013 at 02:29 AM
I watched it. Entirely unrealistic and non sensical.
Posted by: UESider | February 10, 2013 at 07:22 AM
No longer available on cbs website
Posted by: sr | February 10, 2013 at 07:23 AM
to close for comfort.
Posted by: bimbo | February 10, 2013 at 09:41 AM
The accents were all wrong. The scenes didn't seem real. Only good part was Yiddish theater legend Fuyvush Finkel playing a shop keeper.
He was superb. Funny.
Posted by: UESider | February 10, 2013 at 09:54 AM
So far from how it is in real life.
Posted by: Daniel bguv | February 10, 2013 at 10:39 AM
UESider: Don't be too critical. Most viewers aren't from New York and even fewer understand Yiddish. I actually enjoyed the show. I could follow most of the Yiddish conversations but could not understand all of the words. My parents and most of their their siblings and cousins were born in Europe. The actors certainly weren't Galitzianers. The subtitles were helpful.
Posted by: Rocky | February 10, 2013 at 12:15 PM
Anyone see The Possession (2012) with Matisyahu? He plays a Haredi, who surprisingly has a different pronunciation than his father's character - and the character of anyone in his shul. Before we criticise nonconsonant pronunciations: watch The Passion of the Christ - no two people have the same pronunciation of Aramaic; the Latin's not that consistant between the actors either.
Posted by: Maskil | February 10, 2013 at 06:32 PM
I am not Jewish--apparently, obviously so--and have dealth with numerous Chabad men and the occasional Belzer.
It is very rare for the frum to throw around the word "shiksa" in front of non-Jewish women. Of course, I have no idea what they do privately, but in my presence, nearly all of the Chareidi men I have met have treated me politely.
The show is not realistic in this regard and anyone who watches it should be aware of that.
Posted by: JessicaR | February 10, 2013 at 06:41 PM
Very sad BUT all to true
The dark side of the ultra rebbes in willy new square and in monroe
Posted by: put a square into a hole | February 10, 2013 at 07:02 PM
The show stereotyped the jews and depicted them as ignorant and devoid of any class. Anytime you stereotype an ethnicity you do them a disservice. This is the 21 century we should be above this. Wellie
Posted by: Wellie g | February 10, 2013 at 09:19 PM
Some local perspective: the episode was shot apparently in both Borough Park and Williamsburg as if both were the same area.
The scene where the detectives stop a chasid on the street is at 13th Avenue and 49th Street in Borough Park yet the hipster clothing store run by "Karen Waters" is said to be on N. 3rd, a Williamsburg address. Krauss Hats, the shtreimel shop, does exist at 49th and 12th in Borough Park. Here is some lousy video of the film shoot: http://www.gruntig.net/2013/01/tv-show-filming-in-boro-park.html
I'll have to disagree with UESider. Virtually no one in Borough Park wears the skullcap that Finkel wore except for the occasional Bukharan Jew coming through. I think Hell would freeze over before a shtreimel store owner would put one of his $1,000+ hats on the head of an Irish detective. These are people who wanted to "asser" wigs because the Indian women who donated the hair worshipped a religion they didn't like.
Rocky, you're a better man than me because I understood zero of the "Yiddish" spoken except for one word, "yetzt." :)
Posted by: Wigmore | February 10, 2013 at 10:50 PM
The episode did not treat the chassidic community well. The issue of the two brothers up for the position of rebbe, sounds familiar.
Last week's episode of "Supernatural" featured a golem vs. nazi necromancers.
"He is no Rabbi. He doesn't keep the mitzvahs. He works on the sabbath. He eats the flesh of swine"
"But, everybody loves bacon"
I guess it was Jewish homecoming week on the boob tube!
Posted by: Dr. Dave | February 11, 2013 at 12:09 AM
It is very rare for the frum to throw around the word "shiksa" in front of non-Jewish women.
Many years ago I was in a Jewish book store with my sister, IIRC in the Lower East Side. One of the shopkeepers made a snide comment in Yiddish about the Jewish guy with a shiksa (my sister is a blonde - just like our Litvishe maternal grandmother, A"H who in her youth in Brownsville was known as "Snowball."
Posted by: Yoel B | February 11, 2013 at 01:11 AM
Holy crap!!we have one instance where someone used the word shiksa many years ago so it's ok now to stereotype it on tv shows and movies are you kidding me
Posted by: different dave | February 12, 2013 at 06:23 AM
A goyishe face, goyishe nose. So fake
Posted by: schtupper | February 12, 2013 at 01:19 PM
Are you kidding? SVU has Haredi episodes every other week!
They're the only episodes where Richard Belzer (Munch) gets to play a role anymore, usually to be the yiddish translator/ stock Jewish-but-not-Haredi character.
Posted by: Brian | February 12, 2013 at 01:26 PM