TV Series Worth Watching.

[Kingy]

Blacklist series 1 done and upto date with Series 2. Some late nights over weekend! Still enjoying it so was def a great shout.

Need another one to go at when I get the chance. I prefer older ones I've missed first time around as that means I have a few series to go at if I find I like them. Once which was recommended is Southland ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1299368/

Quote:Southland takes a raw look at Los Angeles as it is in the 2000s and as well at the lives of the officers of the Los Angeles Police Department who are trying to contain it.

That ^^ is a bland and tbh very poor description. I'd have left it well alone reading that had I not been told it was good. The fact it has got an 8.4 rating tells you it won't be a bad series.

I've watched the first few episodes of series 1. It reminds me of The Shield, the way it is filmed and the way it hones in on individual officers, whilst keeping seperate storylines moving then bringing them together. Lots of very good actors I recognise in different roles.
Every episode is a day out of an officers week. You start with a point in the day and then it drops back by Eg. 12 hours and you see how we get there. It works well - and because the plots and subplots carry on throughout the episodes, it flows very well.

So far it looks a good series, which bodes very well as often you need to watch series 1 to get into the characters and storylines, whereas this one hits the ground running.