Southland - Season 5

What?

The thought has been in the back of my mind ever since the première, but it didn’t hit me until tonight that next…

Ben Sherman defenders no longer have a leg to stand on. After constructing a ruse so despicable that it turns his…

In the most well-known and beautiful scene of Joseph Conrad’s novel Lord Jim, Conrad’s reliable stand-in Charles…

The first police-related show I remember watching with regularity was Law & Order. It was the first show other than…

Southland is a rolling boulder: it’s been slowly gaining momentum since 2009, going faster as faster, getting better…

Think of police officers as circus performers. They put on their uniforms with the shiny badges and hop in their…

The opening flash-forward, freeze-frame, and narration scene is the one major stylistic constant over Southland’s…

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Southland has gone to the “it’s too hot in Los Angeles” well before. I understand the…

So much has changed season-to-season on TNT’s Southland that at first it’s easy to feel unmoored by the stability of…