r/SouthLAndTV • u/[deleted] • Nov 24 '19
Very horrible ending
This show gives you zero wins and shits all over your face.
I guess they knew they wouldn’t renew and just said go shit all over the fans.
Fuck these writers
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u/psilocyber01 Nov 03 '21
No the ending was good, Sammy finding that it was Ben, we get to see the resolution of that, Cooper seeing red and pistol whipping the neighbor then getting shot by LAPD, him possibly dying as he looks up at the "artificial sun" on LAPD airship. Fuck, Cody killing his tweeker friend to get away from the pursuit. Just the arc of Sherman as he started off in 1.01 as a great boot to become piece of shit dirty cop, looking out for only himself banging the gang sister. Wins? Who wants to see fake ass happy endings all the time.
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u/yeahnoyeah03 Dec 07 '21
Every review I read called it "real". I think the ending made it the most real. I am glad it wasn't tied up in a bow, whether that was because of cancellation or not.
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Nov 18 '21
It was cancelled without an ending. They were expecting to get another season, but it got cancelled a month after the final episode aired. I was talking to Michael O'Grady about it, and he said some pencil pusher moved up within the TNT network and had an axe to grind about the show, so he pulled the plug on it.
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u/milliAmpere14 Apr 20 '22
I think it ended wonderfully. Cooper going out like he did is just very lifelike. That is how fucked up life is....survived what he did only to go out like that ??? Real as fuck, if you ask me.
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u/huetoob Apr 01 '20
I thought it had great characters and character arcs, but they took the piss so many times with cheap tricks in the plot that made it into a total black comedy. Binged all 5 seasons over the past few days. Ben's character became such an annoying twat. What's with all the him getting women every 5 seconds? Lol he wasn't that funny/ that good looking, He didn't have the charisma for the ladies to be falling over him all the time.
How many times did they meet a character earlier on then later on that same character has some pivot-able thing happen to them? Couldn't suspend disbelief any more from early on in the series but I thought the fight scenes were very well choreographed and the shootouts etc. They definitely had some very talented people working on the show, no doubt.
Only watched it because I finished Animal Kingdom then watched Southland because it had Shawn Hatosy in it. He blew me away in Animal Kingdom and I'll be on the look out if he's in anything else... Like Michael Shannon, Steve Buscemi, Sam Rockwell amongst a few others.
EDIT, oh yeah the ending was terrible.
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u/milliAmpere14 Apr 20 '22
....then watched Southland because it had Shawn Hatosy in it. He blew me away in Animal Kingdom....
Same with me. The way he acted in Animal Kingdom is 👍👍.
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u/Landstuhl2014 May 09 '22
Ben McKenzie(Officer Sherman) is a helluva lot better in Gotham - a superb series with a uniquely well done ending!
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u/jimothy_james_jim Nov 24 '19
😂 still a heck of a ride though