Apr 18 2013SaveTV ReviewsSouthland4/18/13B+TV ReviewsSouthland4/18/13Southland: “Reckoning”Kevin McFarland149SaveWhat?
Apr 11 2013SaveTV ReviewsSouthland4/11/13A-TV ReviewsSouthland4/11/13Southland: “Chaos”Kevin McFarland218SaveThe thought has been in the back of my mind ever since the première, but it didn’t hit me until tonight that next…
Apr 4 2013SaveTV ReviewsSouthland4/4/13BTV ReviewsSouthland4/4/13Southland: “The Felix Paradox”Kevin McFarland128SaveBen Sherman defenders no longer have a leg to stand on. After constructing a ruse so despicable that it turns his…
Mar 28 2013SaveTV ReviewsSouthland3/28/13A-TV ReviewsSouthland3/28/13Southland: “Heroes”Kevin McFarland82SaveIn the most well-known and beautiful scene of Joseph Conrad’s novel Lord Jim, Conrad’s reliable stand-in Charles…
Mar 21 2013SaveTV ReviewsSouthland3/21/13B+TV ReviewsSouthland3/21/13Southland: “Bleed Out”Kevin McFarland77SaveThe first police-related show I remember watching with regularity was Law & Order. It was the first show other than…
Mar 14 2013SaveTV ReviewsSouthland3/14/13ATV ReviewsSouthland3/14/13Southland: “Off Duty”Kevin McFarland178SaveSouthland is a rolling boulder: it’s been slowly gaining momentum since 2009, going faster as faster, getting better…
Mar 7 2013SaveTV ReviewsSouthland3/7/13A-TV ReviewsSouthland3/7/13Southland: “Under The Big Top”Kevin McFarland114SaveThink of police officers as circus performers. They put on their uniforms with the shiny badges and hop in their…
Feb 28 2013SaveTV ReviewsSouthland2/28/13A-TV ReviewsSouthland2/28/13Southland: “Babel”Kevin McFarland106SaveThe opening flash-forward, freeze-frame, and narration scene is the one major stylistic constant over Southland’s…
Feb 21 2013SaveTV ReviewsSouthland2/21/13B+TV ReviewsSouthland2/21/13Southland: “Heat”Kevin McFarland94SaveCorrect me if I’m wrong, but Southland has gone to the “it’s too hot in Los Angeles” well before. I understand the…
Feb 13 2013SaveTV ReviewsSouthland2/13/13A-TV ReviewsSouthland2/13/13Southland: “Bats And Hats”Kevin McFarland150SaveSo much has changed season-to-season on TNT’s Southland that at first it’s easy to feel unmoored by the stability of…