Southland - Season 5
Southland: “Chaos”
The thought has been in the back of my mind ever since the première, but it didn’t hit me until tonight that next week…
Southland: “The Felix Paradox”
Ben Sherman defenders no longer have a leg to stand on. After constructing a ruse so despicable that it turns his…
Southland: “Heroes”
In the most well-known and beautiful scene of Joseph Conrad’s novel Lord Jim, Conrad’s reliable stand-in Charles Marlow…
Southland: “Bleed Out”
The first police-related show I remember watching with regularity was Law & Order. It was the first show other than…
Southland: “Off Duty”
Southland is a rolling boulder: it’s been slowly gaining momentum since 2009, going faster as faster, getting better…
Southland: “Under The Big Top”
Think of police officers as circus performers. They put on their uniforms with the shiny badges and hop in their Crown…
Southland: “Babel”
The opening flash-forward, freeze-frame, and narration scene is the one major stylistic constant over Southland’s…
Southland: “Heat”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Southland has gone to the “it’s too hot in Los Angeles” well before. I understand the…
Southland: “Bats And Hats”
So much has changed season-to-season on TNT’s Southland that at first it’s easy to feel unmoored by the stability of…