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Southland for the Motherfucking WIN \o/

So. Southland. Best network show this year or best network show this year? Seriously, it's very hard to watch this show at the same time I'm supposed to be decompressing for bed because then I get all excited by Cooper just BREATHING.

I've been on line for about 20 minutes and am currently involved in two conversations and a txt message babble about last night's episode.

a) OH MY FUCKING GOD, COOPER!!!

B) OH MY FUCKING GOD, COOPER!!

C) If Cooper wanted to try marriage again, he could try with me. I liked his wife automatically, and ~~I highly doubt that she's the one who ended it. I think he decided he just couldn't do it anymore.~~ Oh, Cooper. *pets* ETA: Upon some convo with

serialkarma I have reversed this opinion and now think Cooper's wife ended it, and basically told him "I love you, but you're gay" and he was all "Am not!" And she just was like "I'm not arguing this point. You are. Sort yourself out. This doesn't mean I don't love you, but it's not happening." And so that kind of forced him to go to therapy.

d) All that back-story kind of had me hugging the TV every five minutes. Cooper was married. He hurt his back. Ben's got a sister named Olivia. Fucked up families. Cooper being a cop or digging a ditch. They only get $30k? The hell?! And then there was Ben and his asshole dad. When he walked out, I immediately decided that he went to Cooper's where Cooper was all hopped up on his drugs, and they drank and then Ben fell asleep on Cooper's sofa and Cooper put a blanket on him. In the morning, Ben makes Cooper eggs.

e) I have so much stuff I want to write for this series. It's just... everything so damn intense all the time. I get that same vibe I get from GK, which is that everything's so damn intense all I want to do is write them happy. Which you know, not much happiness on the show. Then again my writing is taking five. I miss it, but I understand.

f) Not enough Adams.

g) I hate the C. Thomas Howell character, and I really think his partner needs to get a new partner and when he called in a panic, I really thought they'd shot somebody by accident. And yet, Tom Sizemore was perfect casting.

h) So, Tom Everett Scott I don't know the name of your character, but I was damn shocked to find out you were hitched the way you were up on Kristen Datillo. I remember when she was all NBC IT Girl, she's had wayyyy too much work done. Anyway, Tom, you were so flirting with her, I mean damn! No wonder Adams was giving you The Suspect Eye

i) Cooper and the way he treated the transvestite shop owners. You couldn't have played that more beautifully Michael Cudlitz. You win. You so fucking win. And so do the writers, well fucking done, y'all.

In conclusion: SOUTHLAND BITCHES!!!

I wish that every week was Cooper and Ben week, with special awesomeness by Regina King. Oh, wait, it kinda is!

I am very sorry to hear that NBC is doing an NBC(or a FOX, depending) and just yanking Kings from the schedule. Supposedly until June. Yeah, whatever. Fail Ben Silverman, but then again, that's all you do anyway.

ETA: CRAP! My bad about the cut tag SNAFU, folks! Hey, does anybody have a copy of The Frames 'For the Birds' CD they'd like to share with me?

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I hate the C. Thomas Howell character and I really think his partner needs to get a new partner and when he called in a panic, I really thought they'd shot somebody by accident.

My hate for Dewey is LEGION. I can't see any redeeming qualities about him, so unless they're revealed in the next episode, I'll be forced to reach into the screen and kill him off myself. YES, I CAN *SO* DO THAT. YOUR DOUBTS MEAN NOTHING TO ME, ZAHRA.

Cooper was married.

I loved the off-handed way he revealed he'd been to therapy when his marriage broke up. "I worked through some things." Oh, I'LL BET YOU DID, COOPER. And his respectful treatment of the transvestite shopkeepers made me flail muchly.

When he walked out, I immediately decided that he went to Cooper's where Cooper was all hopped up on his drugs, and they drank and then Ben fell asleep on Cooper's sofa and Cooper put a blanket on him. In the morning, Ben makes Cooper eggs.

Yes. This.

My hate for Dewey is LEGION. I can't see any redeeming qualities about him, so unless they're revealed in the next episode, I'll be forced to reach into the screen and kill him off myself. YES, I CAN *SO* DO THAT. YOUR DOUBTS MEAN NOTHING TO ME, ZAHRA.

Do you need help, because I just... Ponyboy became a Soc asshole, is that it? I mean wow, he just... ASSHOOOOOOOOOOOOOLE.

I loved the off-handed way he revealed he'd been to therapy when his marriage broke up. "I worked through some things." Oh, I'LL BET YOU DID, COOPER. And his respectful treatment of the transvestite shopkeepers made me flail muchly.

Yes. Exactly! And he's always just so nonchalant about the way be reveals things, like yeah, okay, whatever. You know what this dance he and Ben are doing reminds me of? DATING. Here's a few morsels, here's a few more... and I was just telling someone else how incredibly impressed I was with a) the way the transvestite scene was written and b) the way Michael Cudlitz just sold it.

Damn, this show is awesome.

I have all kinds of Ben/Cooper fic I want to write.

Dewey is a total wanker. But everyone else is a brick and I love them all.

I kenw I recognised Tom Sizemore!

AHHHHHHHHHH!!!! *KERMIT FLAIL*

I love this show so fucking much!! I really can't get over how Cooper is just tossing out these incredibly personal tidbits at random. He's all, blah, blah therapy, Beverly Hills, okay rich boy, oh and I was married. BAM! How ya like me now? So. Fucking. Entertaining.

At this point I fully expect him to be giving Ben a ration of shit about his fucked up love life at some point, and then just be like, yeah you don't have to worry about that shit when you do guys. KAPOW!

Yeah, I really liked the transvestite scene, in many ways, not least of which was, there wasn't really much about it that felt like "here we are making a point about transvestites."

That was some spot on casting with Tim Sizemore.

I love this show so fucking much!! I really can't get over how Cooper is just tossing out these incredibly personal tidbits at random. He's all, blah, blah therapy, Beverly Hills, okay rich boy, oh and I was married. BAM! How ya like me now? So. Fucking. Entertaining.

I was really just like, holy fucking cow, Cooper. And if he does just toss out the gay (or bi) thing I will totally pass out on the floor.

It will be AWESOME. And then you'll write fic about it, yes? *hopeful face*

Oh, and how's this for slightly creepy? I made a comment on Twitter yesterday about Southland, and how people should be watching it? And 5 minutes later @SouthlandNBC (http://twitter.com/SouthlandNBC) started following me. Big Brother is watching, hm?

I am hoping someone will make icons of that shot of Cooper sprawled against the car when he picks Ben up from therapy.

*fans self*

Oh man, I'm glad you're all up in this show as well, because it makes me flail with crazy love. I love Ben. I love Cooper. I love Dewey's long suffering partner and would not begrudge her burying him in a shallow ditch somewhere.

[Subtext of the Cooper on the car scene]

Cooper: Hi, baby, did you miss me?
Ben: [seeing the sprawl] uhhhhhh...
Cooper: [still talking]
Ben: Are we going to have sex now?
Cooper: blah blah therapy
Ben: You just dropped that on me b/c you know I'm thinking about you fucking me in the backseat, didn't you?
Cooper: Damn straight.

I am in awe of this series. I have all these Southland stories I want to write, but I can't seem to get past my brain scrawling ILU COOPER! in sparkly pen. PURPLE sparkly pen no less.

I love Dewey's long suffering partner and would not begrudge her burying him in a shallow ditch somewhere.

I'll loan her the trash bags.

Yep. That's pretty much it.

Cooper is like Gene. Cooper is awesome like Gene. You both want them to save you, do you, sleep for a bit and then you cook them a nice breakfast

I'll even dig it for her. And supply her alibi.

I think what I love the most about this show is how it's completely subverted my expectations. I saw Ben McKenzie and just immediately thought 'O.C-meets uniforms - oh how trite,/i>', and instead it's just completely blown me out of the water.

Southland WIN! I concur with A though I and would like to add COOPER! That is all.

e) I have so much stuff I want to write for this series.
Dooooooo it! I want Cooper to have all the sex in this world!

However crappystupid NBC may be, I love that they have two cop shows where two guys from Band of Brothers get to play the two most awesome characters EVER. \o/

LOL! Yes, I read somewhere (don't ask where) that the cast was supposed to Twitter during the episode or after or something. Plz to ask Michael Cudlitz 'How so awesome?!'

COOPER!

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Dooooooo it! I want Cooper to have all the sex in this world!

WORD!

Ponyboy became a Soc asshole, is that it?

We can only hope that the centerpiece of next week's episode is Johnny stabbing him to death.

You know what this dance he and Ben are doing reminds me of? DATING.

HEEEEEEEEEE.

I have all kinds of Ben/Cooper fic I want to write.

Do you need me to do anything to/for your muses to make that happen?

Ooooh, I almost forgot this. When he walked up behind the chick at the party who was wearing Dewey's utility belt and grabbed he hips and told her to stop moving, and then pulled the gun out of the holster? Am I the only one who thought that was ridiculously fucking hot???

Could we find a way for Cooper to meet Crews and then, you know, sex!?

No. He breathes and my ovaries quiver.

This DOES seem to closely resemble a dating dance. *nods* And I am firmly behind all plans that involve Ben falling asleep on Cooper's couch and them hanging out lots more, and then perhaps not even realizing they're sort of married until someone comments that (like with Brad and Nate) when they are pissy with each other, things are bad, SO PLEASE DON'T FIGHT, BOYS.

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