What's all this decent network telly business?

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Dear Southland,


You made Bull Randleman gay?!!

FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN! *high five*

Seriously, when I saw Bull in the bar, in his tight black tee shirt (nice guns, Michael Cudlitz!), drinking that piss, err Corona, and the second I saw Crusing!Man next to him, something pinged about what I'd heard about the series and my brain was like, "Oh, sweet baby Jesus, Bull is gay. They went there. WOW."

Show, please do not be leaving like Kings, which was supposed to be in your time slot, but you are clearly for the investment.

Also, Ryan, err, Ben, um, so Ben Mckenzie, is it just weird to share your first name with your character? Oh, who cares, you haven't aged a fucking day, and that line about Ferrari guy getting your lawyer dad to get him off? PRICELESS! *high five Southland writers*

Double high five for Ben taking a Black Studies class!

Triple high five for Regina King (227 in the house!)!

And some other stuff happened, but I couldn't tell you what, because Bull, Ben and Regina for the WIN! Real acting hooray! *\o/*

I swear I am not thinking of the story where Ryan and Seth had a horrible messy break up -- Seth always was a selfish wanker -- and so Ryan left and joined the LAPD and then he gets partnered with Bull and there is stupidly hot, filthy sex in the back of the squad car.

Okay, I lied. I NEED THAT STORY.

<3,
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Seriously, people, watch this show!

Comments

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

So it shall be done.

[londondrowning.livejournal.com]

Um, you're going to need to make that story exist like yesterday.

Oh man, I FREAKED OUT when I saw that BULL WAS THE GAY COP. I remembered reading that there was going to be a gay cop, but there was a moment early on in the pilot when Shawn Hatosy was on the phone fighting with his wife and she was talking about how they never had sex anymore, and it cut to him looking at his HOT ASS PARTNER and my brain went 'OH BOY, I AM TOTALLY DOWN WITH THIS', so at first, I felt a little bit disappointed?

BUT THEN I REMEMBERED THAT BULL FUCKING RANDLEMAN IS PLAYING A GAY COP AND DECIDED THAT THIS WOULD PROBABLY WORK OUT FOR ME AFTER ALL. Please be defiling Ryan Atwood in the back of your squad car soon, Bull, it's the least you can do for me after I watched all those zillion episodes of Standoff for you and Livingston.

[47-trek-47.livejournal.com]

Just saw it and YAY. I'll definitely check it out again next week.

[bijoux.livejournal.com]

And yes, I have this urge to rewatch a couple OC eps now.

...I totally did that last night. I watched the first 4 eps of S4. He looks exactly the same. What a hotass :)

[transtempts.livejournal.com]

I liked s4. Taylor was slighty nuts, and FUN. And you know, Ben is a HOTASS.

[bijoux.livejournal.com]

Bull is awesome. And he and Martin should sit around drinking beer and talking about their awesomeness.

See, I would totally be behind this 100%. (Though, I have managed to work through my initial aversion to BoB slash after reading tidbits of sville's Winters/Nixon stuff, but my brain only extends to their pairing at the moment and everything else is like a big "No, thank you. I'd rather not imagine that.")

oh, god another Coop!

Ahahaha, I didn't even think of that! Oh, also, apparently the Ferrari guy was played by the same dude who played Oliver in S1 of The OC. So many The OC shoutouts in this episode, it's too good.

and Coop being very Bull about the whole thing, because he is a professional, and Ben being like, um, okay, but that thing we did, and Coop is like "On the clock, kid, stop being a pussy!"

...You're wearing me down already, I can feel it :\

[bijoux.livejournal.com]

It's hard to keep yourself pure while on the internet. Heh, oh well.

[bijoux.livejournal.com]

The start of S4 always gets me because it's like Serious Drama Time for like 3 episodes, when Ryan has gone all psycho broody cage-fighter, and then suddenly it's wacky hijinks again. The contrast just amuses me for some reason.

But yes, slightly crazy Taylor is excellent. The hilarious faces Ryan makes whenever he's around her make my day.

[transtempts.livejournal.com]

It amuses me too. Plus, Taylor is crazy and smart enough that Ryan is intrigued and also kind of 'okay, being around this girl is like being on a roller coaster...this is kind of fun'. He needs someone to get him out of his head, and she GETS THAT HE IS FUNNY. I mean, he's got this dry sense of humor, and Taylor? Picks up on it.

[avid-slacker.livejournal.com]

I'm lame because I totally didn't get it with the bar scene. Clueless is me.

Mostly I thought Ben came off as one note in this. Ryan Atwood with a little wide-eyed bewilderment to spice it up, but I did LOVE the scene with the little girl.
"Do I look mean?" "No it's just the haircut."

I probably won't tune in regularly because it's a little gritty for my taste, but I hope it does well for Ben's sake.

[dine.livejournal.com]

yay! hulu for the MF win - just finished watching, and it's a terrific show so far - I'm now eagerly awaiting next week's ep. smart, real, interesting characters and some complicated situations - the whole thing is made of wonderful and awesome

[vylit.livejournal.com]

I watched it this morning and I was all, "RYAN THIS IS A HARDCORE SHOW. WOW." Ben totally still looks the same, and the acting was really good. \o/

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I FREAKED OUT when I saw that BULL WAS THE GAY COP. I remembered reading that there was going to be a gay cop, but there was a moment early on in the pilot when Shawn Hatosy was on the phone fighting with his wife and she was talking about how they never had sex anymore, and it cut to him looking at his HOT ASS PARTNER and my brain went 'OH BOY, I AM TOTALLY DOWN WITH THIS', so at first, I felt a little bit disappointed?

Is it my imagination or did they say there might be more than one gay/bi character in the series. I swear I'm not making that up, but you know how things blend together after a while.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I do no think of Ben as a bastion of awesome acting, but he is very pretty. I'll trust Michael and Regina to do the heavy lifting, and apparently the writers feel the same way. So, we are all gravy. :)

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