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Tuesday, April 6, 2010: Southland

by Angel Cohn April 6, 2010 6:00 AM
Tuesday, April 6, 2010: Southland

Tonight is the season finale of Southland. It is likely also the series finale, unless by some executive-powered miracle TNT decides to make new episodes. That's a pretty depressing thought, because this show is really good. I'm feeling maudlin, because I just love the emotional wringer that this show provides, but I'm trying to take some comfort in the fact that at the very least I got to watch this handful of episodes at all.

Tonight's features the reunion of Lydia and Ray, which looks awkward and touching, and even though he's not my favorite character I'm still intrigued as to how that will play out. But it also features a disturbing case (and by that I mean awesome) with a criminal pretending to be a cop and beating up women and whatnot. Looks like Ben does a lot of running. I can't tell if a lot of loose ends are wrapped up or not, or if it's a true finale or just another episode, but the episodes on this show are so fantastic that I'll just happily take it either way.

Tune in tonight at 10 PM on TNT for what could be your last chance to see a new episode of this cop drama. Wondering where you know the cops of Southland from? Here's our handy guide.

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April 6, 2010 9:11 AM
Andy Bluebear
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Does anyone know how the ratings are for this show? Is it doing well enough for a renewal?

April 6, 2010 10:53 AM
Kristen
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Who is Ray? What am I missing here?

TNT is calling this the "season finale," so I'm taking some hope from that that they plan to renew it. I know I should plan for the worst, but I'm still keeping my fingers crossed. This is such a great show, and in the end I'm just glad TNT gave me a chance to experience it because I, alas, failed to watch it on NBC.

April 6, 2010 2:19 PM
tvgirl48
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I'm also curious how the actual ratings are. I know the obvious answer is "bad," but I want to know in context of TNT's viewership levels. Or in context of how it did before on NBC. I wish it would be renewed because 1, it's a fantastic show and 2, I think it fits perfectly on TNT and they should listen to their motto ("we know drama")...well, do they?

April 7, 2010 9:19 AM
Grant
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This series should be renewed.

March 27, 2012 3:48 AM
Fizi
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more money for rec centers are dneeed. A brief for whitey, by pat buchananHow would he pull it off? I wondered. How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people? How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about the U.S. of K.K.K. America, and howled, God damn America! My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables. Yes, Barack agreed, Wright's statements were controversial, and divisive, and racially charged, reflecting a distorted view of America. But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation. Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America must do to close the racial divide and heal the country. The white community, said Barack, must start acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds . And what deeds must we perform to heal ourselves and our country? The white community must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminal justice system and provide this generation of blacks with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable to Barack's and the Rev. Wright's generations. What is wrong with Barack's prognosis and Barack's cure? Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, everybody but the rioters themselves. Was white racism really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery. Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to. This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these: First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American. Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks. We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude? Barack talks about new ladders of opportunity for blacks. Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for deserving white kids. Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent? Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself? As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time? Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse? We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing. Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

March 29, 2012 11:10 PM
Amit
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Let me say first that I have a healthy rseepct for those in our midst that swim against the current.I think that I can fairly say that that's what a black conservative is. And a black woman conservative--you're practically in a class all your own.You say that Obama has "extremely liberal views." Would his views be more palatable if he merely had "liberal views"?I'm not trying to be contentious, just sincerely interested in your point of view.A democrat, by definition, is a "liberal," just as a republican, by definition is a "conservative."I know: there are various shades within those categories.Of late, many white conservatives have elected to endorse Obama--and they're neither black nor liberal.I believe that it's the Palin factor that is the primary reason why C. Powell endorsed Obama, despite his stated rseepct for her.Also, I believe that Powell rseepcts a woman's right to choose, and is concerned that the next president will have the opportunity to nominate a couple more Supreme Court Associate Justices and, if that president is a republican, it would tip the balance towards a conservative majority, potentially threatening the existence of Roe v. Wade.Truthfully, Palin, in my opinion, is not up to the task of filling presidential shoes should some calamity befall McCain.And that his slogan is Country First is all the more ironic that he selected Palin to be a heart attack away from the seat of presidential power.Clearly his decision was political first and country last.Again, I rseepct your ideology, although I find it flawed, and I, as do many other blacks, find the term, black conservative, to be paradoxical and inexplicable.I will return to read up on your evolving conservative views of your world. But I probably won't attempt to change your conservative outlook.That would be inexcusably presumptuous of me.You see, I don't necessarily feel a liberal point of view is superior to a conservative point of view, or vice versa.It is what it is.I see the world more in light of what works or doesn't work, given what it is we say we want.For me, at this moment, in light of what I say I want, the liberal view works better.

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