Chances are if you’re new to SouthLAnd you’ll probably be confused with the way that the relationshoip between John Cooper and Jessica Tang (Lucy Liu) is playing out. The reason I say this is that John Cooper is gay but his character isn’t written in the standard way that a gay man is normally portrayed in his position. John is a regular guy...

So the call from the last episode that Lydia (Regina King) made to the mystery man has come with some repercussions apparently. Lydia is throwing up in the morning, she has no appetite and as you would have it, is pregnant. This entire episode seemed like an ode to single motherhood as Ruben Robinson (Dorian Missick)  and Lydia investigate the fatal stabbing...

Is it me or is officer Ben Sherman (Ben McKenzie) slipping deeper and deeper into the world of Copland and farther away from the white knight that he set out to be when he first donned the uniform? With the new partner in Sammy Bryant (Shawn Hatosy), Ben has bypassed all of his moral standing to become what you can call a “frat boy” for the LAPD. This...

I guess it was about time for our local boyscout Ben Sherman (Ben McKenzie) to have a bad day. This bad day however had him punch a young, black hipster party girl square in the face with a closed fist… and while she may have deserved it, the act was done with a huge crowd of people watching – camera phones running tape to make him e-famous on...

There’s something fresh and wonderful about SouthLAnd this season and I cannot put my finger on it. No it isn’t the cute freckled face of Lucy Liu (who has joined the team as John Cooper’s partner “Jessica Tang”), and no it isn’t Lou Diamond Phillips as the jackass vet that breaks Ben Sherman’s balls the entire episode. I think it’s just the...