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• Actors: Michael Cudlitz, Benjamin McKenzie
• Studio: Universal
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002N5N5RK
• For more information about "Southland: Season Two [Blu-ray]" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars relentless, November 21, 2010

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Joseph Adam - See all my reviews
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When I first saw Southland I was hooked on the realism. Having spent 15years as a paramedic I look for realism in medical and cop shows. Southland is a gritty drama that pulls no punches. I like the fact that it is taken from the cop on the beat point of view; what they face every day and how they respond to the depravity of some people. From the cop that drinks on the job to the cop that abuses pain pills to the goodness and innocense of the new cop on the job;the characters are well fleshed out and realistic. An all around great show.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Southland - A realistic series, September 22, 2011

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Bill in Vancouver USA - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Southland: The Complete Second Season (DVD)

I am a retired police officer with 25½ years of service. So, in general, I like "TV cop shows", but some a lot more than others. I can flatly state that Southland is the best of the crop. My personal opinion). Yes, it is actually an adult soap opera, in the sense that the show goes beyond the day to day action scenes, and gets in to the personal life of the characters. In the real world, most cops don't just leave everything at work and go home at the end of their shift to be Mr. Rogers in his neighborhood. I get every episode on my DVR and save it until the DVD comes out. Ever watch the show "Cops"? That is a good show, but I can assure you that most of the time the real cops on that show are playing to the camera. Good, but not 100% realistic. Ever notice on other TV cop shows that as the good guys go through a building looking for the bad guy, or execute a search warrant? Most of the time the drawn guns are pointing up in the air and when they do point it at a bad guy, their finger is alongside the trigger guard, not inside of it resting on the trigger. In real life when you advance with your weapon drawn, both hands on it, and it is pointed at the ground, not up in the air. So if you trip and fall, the gun goes off pointed at the ground, not as you fall foreward with a round accidentally going off straight ahead out in front of you. And trust me, when you are confronting a bad guy to have your weapon out, you are absolutely not standing within arms reach from him, and you absolutely/positively have your finger on the trigger, not resting alongside the trigger guard. A gritty, real life cop show/soap opera. I love it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SouthLAnd is gritty televison drama at its very best, February 22, 2011

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Mr. Alan Chivers (PORT MACQUARIE, NEW SOUTH WALES Australia) - See all my reviews
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I have recently hooked up with the second season of TNT's "SouthLAnd", courtesy of GEM (a digital offshoot of our National Nine Network here in Australia), and I am very, very impressed. Executive produced by Ann Biderman ("NYPD Blue"); and Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green ("The Sopranos"; and more recently CBS drama "Blue Bloods"), I hope this raw, exceptionally well written and acted series makes its way to DVD real soon. It is gritty television drama at its very best.