If You Loved Blue Bloods Try These Crime DVDs

Bull: Season 1 — Universal

Quick Verdict: Blue Bloods fans who loved Frank Reagan's chess-match negotiations will devour Bull's jury-selection mind games—this is courtroom procedural as psychological warfare, not gavels and motions. Michael Weatherly's Dr. Jason Bull runs a trial consultancy that reads juries like EEGs and scripts verdicts before opening statements. If you appreciated Blue Bloods' focus on institutional strategy over gunfights, Bull doubles down: every episode is a tactical operation where the crime matters less than the twelve strangers deciding guilt. Season 1 (2016) establishes the formula—wrongly accused clients, mirror juries in the lab, Bull's team deconstructing bias one voir dire question at a time. It's cerebral procedural comfort food, the same episodic structure you expect from CBS, but the arena shifts from precinct bullpens to focus groups and mock trials. Explore our current copy of Bull: Season 1 or browse more Crime DVDs at Patina.

Chicago Justice: Season One — Universal

Quick Verdict: Dick Wolf's Chicago franchise delivers the same multi-generational institutional loyalty Blue Bloods trades in, only here the battlefield is Cook County's State's Attorney's office—think Erin Reagan's courtroom arcs stretched into full episodes. Chicago Justice (2017) follows prosecutor Peter Stone navigating the gap between arresting suspects and convicting them, a tension Blue Bloods touched on whenever Erin clashed with Danny over evidence chains. The show's single season captures Wolf's house style—cases ripped from headlines, moral debates that land on the side of the institution, characters who believe in the system even when it grinds slow. It's the legal spine of Wolf's Chicago universe (Fire, P.D., Med), so if you like your procedurals interconnected and your prosecutors righteous, this one-season run is a compact binge. Explore our current copy of Chicago Justice: Season One or browse more Crime DVDs at Patina.

Criminal Minds: Season 1 — Buena Vista

Quick Verdict: If Blue Bloods' Sunday dinners reminded you that institutions are built by people who show up, Criminal Minds offers the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit as your found family—profilers who solve murders by reading the unsub's childhood instead of chasing them through alleys. Season 1 (2005) introduces the BAU team—Hotch, Gideon, Reid, Morgan, Garcia—flying to crime scenes and building psychological profiles before the local PD even has suspects. Where Blue Bloods centres Irish-Catholic NYPD tradition, Criminal Minds centres the profiler's mind as the weapon: Reid's eidetic memory, Gideon's intuition, Garcia's digital sorcery. The structure mirrors Blue Bloods' episodic closure (new case, new city, same team), but the tone skews darker—these are serial killers, not precinct politics. It's procedural as intellectual thriller, 22 episodes of "what kind of person does this?" instead of "who did this?" Explore our current copy of Criminal Minds: Season 1 or browse more Crime DVDs at Patina.

Chicago (Musical Film) — Roadshow Entertainment

Quick Verdict: Rob Marshall's 2002 musical is the anti-Blue Bloods: corrupt lawyers, celebrity murderesses, and a justice system that runs on tabloid ink—but if you loved Blue Bloods' courtroom scenes and want to see the opposite argument sung in fishnets, this is your fever dream. Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones play Jazz Age murderesses who weaponize media coverage to dodge the gallows, defended by Richard Gere's sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn. It's crime procedural as vaudeville satire—trials as showbiz, justice as PR campaign, the system as corrupt theatre. Blue Bloods argued institutions work if good people staff them; Chicago argues the institution is a circus and the only law is who controls the spotlight. Tonally it's the opposite pole, but if you're drawn to courtroom drama and want something that deconstructs it with Bob Fosse choreography and a Best Picture Oscar (2003), this is the palate cleanser. Explore our current copy of Chicago or browse more Crime DVDs at Patina.

Blue Bloods: The First Season — Universal

Quick Verdict: If you're here because you've finished the series and want to loop back to 2010 when Tom Selleck's Frank Reagan first sat at the head of that Sunday dinner table, Season 1 is where the formula locked in—and it's pure comfort procedural, no surprises, exactly the hit you're chasing. Twenty-two episodes introduce the Reagan family structure: Frank as Police Commissioner, Danny as the hot-headed detective, Erin as the ADA, Jamie as the rookie cop, and those dinners where every case gets a moral postscript. Blue Bloods never pretended to reinvent procedural TV—it just executed the formula with enough warmth and patriarchal gravitas to run 14 seasons. Season 1 is the template: cases close, the system works, family loyalty wins, and New York stays safe because good cops show up. If you loved the show's later seasons, revisiting 2010 is like rewatching the pilot of a comfort sitcom—you know every beat, and that's the point. Explore our current copy of Blue Bloods: The First Season or browse more Crime DVDs at Patina. As of September 2026, Patina's Crime DVD collection spans courtroom tacticians, profiler teams, and interconnected Chicago franchises—procedurals that believe in closure, institutional good, and characters who show up every week to do the job. If Blue Bloods gave you 14 seasons of that formula, these five box sets offer adjacent flavours: jury manipulation, FBI profiling, Cook County prosecutors, and one musical argument that the whole system's a con. Shop all Crime DVDs at Patina Paperbacks →

Where can I buy preloved Blue Bloods DVDs in Sydney?

Patina Paperbacks stocks rotating preloved copies of Blue Bloods seasons and comparable crime procedural box sets, shipping Australia-wide from our Sydney base. Check the Crime collection for current availability—stock turns over as titles sell, so if you spot Season 1 or a Chicago franchise entry, grab it before it cycles out.

Are Bull and Criminal Minds similar to Blue Bloods?

Tonally, yes—both are CBS procedurals built on episodic case closure, institutional faith, and ensemble casts you'd trust in a crisis. Bull swaps precinct strategy for courtroom psychology; Criminal Minds swaps NYPD beat cops for FBI profilers hunting serial killers. If you loved Blue Bloods' structure (case opens, team debates, case closes, moral coda), both deliver that rhythm without retreading the Reagan family dinners.

What's the Chicago Justice connection to the other Chicago shows?

Chicago Justice is the legal arm of Dick Wolf's Chicago universe, which includes Chicago Fire (firefighters), Chicago P.D. (police), and Chicago Med (doctors). Characters cross over between shows, so arrests in P.D. become trials in Justice, and victims in Fire end up in Med's ER. If you like your procedurals interconnected—Blue Bloods occasionally did this with recurring characters—the Chicago franchise is built on that crossover model across four series.

Is the Chicago musical DVD worth watching if I only like crime procedurals?

Honestly, only if you're curious how satire dismantles the courtroom drama tropes Blue Bloods played straight. Rob Marshall's 2002 film is a stylised musical where lawyers are conmen and trials are vaudeville—it's the anti-procedural, arguing justice is performance art. If you want more earnest courtroom closure, skip it. If you want to see the opposite argument sung by Renée Zellweger in a bob, it's a wild 113-minute detour.

How many seasons of Blue Bloods are available on DVD in Australia?

Blue Bloods ran for 14 seasons (2010–2024), and most seasons were released on Region 4 DVD for the Australian market through Universal. Patina's stock rotates based on what comes through preloved channels, so availability varies—Season 1 turns up more often than later seasons, but we've carried mid-run entries (Seasons 4–7) depending on what collectors trade in. Check the Crime collection for current listings.