Southland - Anyone Watching This?
scoobyju1
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Hey guys, not sure where to put this, TV or Cult.
Anyway, anyone watching this on E4 on Thursday?
I've been watching in blocks so I'm currently 4 episodes behind but I've got to say I'm really enjoying it.
A cop drama set in LA. It was cancelled after one season by NBC but TNT showed it & it was then renewed for a second season. According to IMDB though, there's 3 seasons so far.
Anyway, anyone watching this on E4 on Thursday?
I've been watching in blocks so I'm currently 4 episodes behind but I've got to say I'm really enjoying it.
A cop drama set in LA. It was cancelled after one season by NBC but TNT showed it & it was then renewed for a second season. According to IMDB though, there's 3 seasons so far.
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Enjoyed the first block which made up the first season, it got canned six episides into the second season so I expect it'll just stop suddenly in a few weeks. Then it was picked up by another network for a full third season but that doesn't broadcast until next year I believe.
I hope it gets the respect it deserves with full 3rd season. 7 and 6 eps respectively is a shambles.
A shambles? Why? That's completely normal for British television -- two separate "series" totaling 13 episodes.
I'm talking in respect to how America do their seasons when it comes to drama television. It has no bearing on UK television because it's not a British tv show.
Yes, it is out of the ordinary for American TV, but I was thinking that from your perspective, as a Brit, this is the sort of thing that you personally would be used to, since your TV industry works that way. In short, I would expect the complaining to come from Americans who would see 13 episodes spread over two seasons as something completely new to them.
Having seen the Shield I would say its closer to the general confusion of the early episodes of Hill Street Blues with the shaky camera work from NYPD Blue thrown in.
A good show and better than any cop show currently made in the UK.
What was the final of Season1?
Was it the shooting of one of the detectives at the bad neighbour’s front door?
I assume scoobyju1 meant More4 not E4
Lol. Let's just say as a viewer of American television i prefer full season orders whether it be 12 or 24. 6/7 episodes just doesn't cut if for me esp. when i really start getting into the show and BAM that's it, over. Mostly due to the faults of the American networks who are largely to blame.
Correct.
I hadn't reaslied that each season is only 6-7 episodes, that's a little disappointing as I'm really getting into it.
Anyone else think the two leads looks like each other? (Office John Cooper & Officer Ben Sherman!)
i wasn't surprised to see kevin alejandro in it though - he always plays detectives or lawyers
I liked the storyline with the young girl as the witness in the gang shooting though - that was handled pretty well over the course of a few episodes, and I imagine they'll probably revisit it at some point as well.
However ...
That doesn't sound too good! Budget cut and cast reduction? I quite like all the various people who work in the cop shop. I think they have the right amount of characters, not too many nor too little. I'd hate to see some of the cast axed.
I think there are too many characters
They should just concentrate on bloke from the OC and Michael Cudlitz. And Regina King and her white partner. They were the only characters who really stood out (and yet I can't recall the 'white partner's name!:o)
That's too little in my opinion. Her partner's name is Russ.
Of course, Russ. I could've looked that up, couldn't I?
I can't but help compare this to the Shield where you had Mackey, Shane, Lem and Ronnie with Dutch and Claudette and the Captain.
Ok, so maybe just four would be too few. But I still think too many characters and it's not like the Wire where that's a good thing. I feel too many characters in Southland are a bit anonymous.
Where a relatively minor character in the Wire like Landsmann can be hugely memorable.
This programme's not trying to be like The Wire. It's its own thing. It's ridiculous to compare every single cop drama to The Wire. The Wire is over. New cops shows eventually are going to come into play and they have to find its feet. Hopefully with the 3rd season next year Southland will and we can delve more into the minor characters who have yet to make an impact. But maybe this will happen with the 2nd season. It's only just started.
Besides i don't want to turn this into vs The Wire thread. It's pointless.
I dislike nbc tbh, they cancelled heroes (okay it was dying)
But they cancelled trauma which imo was great!
And they cancelled southland.
Nbc are rubbish in my opinion anyway