Southland

TV Series
2009–2013
NC-16
42m

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8.5/10

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Cop Drama Police Procedural Crime Drama Thriller

The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department.The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department.The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department.

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IMDb RATING

8.5/10

30K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

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Won 2 Primetime Emmys
- 15 wins & 27 nominations total

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Trivia
NBC executives disliked the character of Officer Dewey Dudek and wanted him to be killed off when the show was airing on NBC.

Goofs
Throughout the series, real Los Angeles thoroughfares or sections are named (e.g. Rodeo, Florence, Vermont), while scenery is nowhere near the real life locations. Even fictitious addresses aren't within the range seen on the real street (e.g. 1024 Rodeo Rd. can't exist on a street that only goes as far east as the 2000 West block).

Crazy credits
One of the first images in the opening credit sequence is a police officer pointing his service weapon in the direction of the camera. That is actually Los Angeles Police Chief, James "Two-Gun" Davis, who served from 1926 to 1931.

Connections
Featured in 2011 Primetime Creative Arts Emmys (2011)

Soundtracks
Canção do Mar (Song of the Sea)
(uncredited)
Written by Frederico de Brito & Ferrer Trindade
Performed by Dulce Pontes

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Once you start clear your schedule

This show is amazing. I literally stumbled upon it during the 2020 holidays while I was off work with nothing much to do due to laying low and staying safe from the COVID. This series was a holiday treat! I literally am embarrassed to say how fast I watched it but it was THAT GOOD. And I am a tough person to get sucked into a tv binge. This show grabs you from the first couple of minutes. The characters have a lot of depth and the acting is great for a TV series!! This show was a launch pad for a bunch of great actors that are now hugely well known. The storyline is thought provoking and very relatable to our continued and current cultural issues where people are still refusing to practice tolerance and acceptance. This show depicts the desperate need to demand equality. When I realized this show was almost a decade old and still, today, we suffer from the same national struggle that sickens me, these same issues of racial profiling and global discrimination will definitely be upsetting when watching southland but this show has a soul that makes HOPE seem like it just might be an actual possibility. Enjoy!