Who are the Silvers in Boston Blue and how are they related?

Nivedita Dubey
October 20, 2025

Summary:

The Silver family anchors Boston Blue: Mae (DA), Lena (detective), Sarah (superintendent), Jonah (rookie), and Reverend Edwin (family elder).
The pilot ties the Silvers to Danny Reagan through a case that begins with Sean Reagan’s injury and a shared family dinner that echoes Blue Bloods.
Religion, blended family history, and multiple law-and-order roles shape the Silvers’ identity and how they approach crime and community.

Boston Blue immediately makes the Silvers feel like a character of their own. The blended family District Attorney Mae, detective Lena, Superintendent Sarah, rookie Jonah and Reverend Edwin combines faith, law and civic influence in ways that shape the show’s tone and cases. The premiere lays out their relationships, roles, and the personal history that informs how they handle justice in Boston.

Who are the Silvers in Boston Blue and how are they related?

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The Silver family is a blended clan built around Mae Silver, Boston’s district attorney, and her late husband, Judge Ben Silver. Lena is Mae’s daughter from a previous relationship; Sarah is Ben’s daughter from another marriage; Jonah is the youngest, Mae and Ben’s child together. Reverend Edwin Peters is Mae’s father and the family’s moral anchor. The show presents the Silvers as close-knit: they dine together, pray together, and bring different parts of the city’s justice system to the same table.

Why that matters on screen: the family structure creates instant dramatic friction prosecutor vs. police, institutional strategy vs. street tactics while giving the series a recognizable family heartbeat similar to Blue Bloods.

Religion is central to the Silvers’ identity in the pilot. Their household blends Jewish and Baptist traditions: Mae converted to Judaism when she married Judge Ben, while Reverend Edwin remains a respected Baptist pastor in Roxbury. The family’s rituals a Jewish blessing followed by a Baptist prayer at dinner underline their blended faith life and the ways they use ritual to maintain unity. That mix also gestures at the show’s broader theme: justice as both legal process and moral duty.

What law-and-order roles do the Silvers hold in Boston Blue?

The Silvers occupy nearly every branch of the city’s justice system:

Mae Silver (Gloria Reuben) – Boston District Attorney. She represents legal strategy and courtroom power.
Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Green) – Homicide/detective role on the BPD; Danny Reagan’s new partner. She brings street investigation and procedural grit.
Sarah Silver (Maggie Lawson) – Boston Police Superintendent; administrative and operational oversight.
Jonah Silver (Marcus Scribner) – Rookie patrol cop; the family’s junior officer learning to balance legacy and identity.
Reverend Edwin Peters (Ernie Hudson) – Community leader and spiritual elder; not a lawmaker, but a civic force whose voice matters in community relations.

This concentration of authority inside one family creates narrative shortcuts: policy, prosecution, policing, and community reaction can all be dramatized around a single dinner table or family meeting. The pilot uses that setup to explore competing ideas about how justice should be pursued.

What do we learn about the Silvers in the pilot episode of Boston Blue?

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The premiere, titled “Faith and Family,” introduces the Silvers through three key beats: a major tech-company fire case, a family dinner, and the personal stakes introduced by Sean Reagan’s injury (which draws Danny to Boston). Those beats let the show demonstrate how the Silvers operate:

Mae views the case through prosecutorial leverage and city politics.
Lena shows investigative instincts and a willingness to get her hands dirty on-scene.
Sarah must balance departmental optics and personnel decisions.
Jonah is learning the ropes and proving himself on patrol.
Reverend Edwin adds the community perspective and moral tempering.

The pilot carefully stages a Silver family dinner that mirrors the Reagan dinners from Blue Bloods — a narrative device that packages exposition, family tension, and values debate into one scene.

What’s missing in the Silver family story so far?

The pilot hints at gaps: Lena’s biological father and Sarah’s biological mother aren’t present in day-to-day life, and the late Judge Ben Silver’s legacy lingers as a backstory element rather than an active character. The series signals these absences deliberately; those blanks are likely story hooks for later episodes, as the show teases deeper family history and unresolved emotional threads. For now, the pilot focuses on how the living Silvers handle power and grief together.

Both families center faith, dinner-table debate, and public service but the Silvers are distinct in tone and composition. Where the Reagans are an Irish-Catholic, multigenerational law-enforcement dynasty in New York, the Silvers are a blended, multifaith Boston clan whose roles span courts, police leadership, and community ministry. The pilot positions the Silvers as a sharper reflection of Boston’s civic tapestry: legally powerful, institutionally enmeshed, and community-facing in different ways than the Reagans. That contrast helps Boston Blue feel like its own show while preserving franchise DNA.

Who plays whom in the Silver family (and immediate connections)

Actor	Character	Role / Notes
Sonequa Martin-Green	Lena Silver	Detective; Danny Reagan’s new partner; Mae’s daughter.
Gloria Reuben	Mae Silver	Boston District Attorney; Silver matriarch.
Maggie Lawson	Sarah Silver	BPD Superintendent; stepdaughter of Mae.
Marcus Scribner	Jonah Silver	Rookie cop; youngest Silver sibling.
Ernie Hudson	Reverend Edwin Peters	Mae’s father; community pastor and moral voice.
Donnie Wahlberg	Danny Reagan	NYPD transplant; connected via family and case ties in pilot.
Mika Amonsen	Sean Reagan	Danny’s son (recast); BPD patrol officer injured in pilot.