This #Southland death scene messed up my brain.

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @JenSquard

Do any of you watch Southland?  It's a cop drama based in LA on TNT - and it's pretty good.  It's had a slow start and some weird network changes and such, but it's getting better.  Until now it hasn't been incredibly dramatic...mostly like any other crime show, but this week's episode TOTALLY caught me offguard.  Totally totally.  I watched this episode three days ago, and I am writing about it now because it freaked my freak.  Like way messed me up, I am still thinking about it all the time.  What the hark is up with that?  This isn't even a character that I felt a connection with, it's just the staging of it all was so intense and realistic that this scene has burrowed itself into a little crevice in my brain and isn't coming out. 

This show, I don't know, it's different.  It's a lot more real life dramatic, and seems totally plausible.  The drama these people go through are things that actually happen, and it's not quite so theatrical like Law & Order.  The content leading up to this death scene provided absolutely no hint at what was going to happen - they didn't focus on him more than normal, there wasn't any preview of what was to come, nothing like that.  It just happened.  And it was so intense that I didn't cry, I just started shaking.  And now it replays in my head over and over and frickin over.  Yikes.

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