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That shell-shocked feeling that comes from the end of some episodes

posted 12 years ago by Mr-Fusion
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I just finished "Integrity Check" (4.06), and had to take a few minutes after the credits rolled to just decompress.

I had the same feeling after "Code 4" (3.04). I was close to hyperventilating when the credits rolled on that one, but "Integrity Check" was just so harrowing and in-your-face. And there was no closure on that one.

This show can get rough.

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[–] Maverick356 12 years ago

Wait until you watch Chaos.

Look sharp, act sharp, be sharp.

[–] MortalFrailty 12 years ago

This is where the show really shined.

Some episodes left the viewer feeling shocked, disturbed or uncomfortable because of the raw, realistic, in your face circumstances, situations and real-life scenarios and emotions that we can (or have) faced in reality.
SouthLAnd is amazing.

Take care, God bless.

[–] wgfaej 12 years ago

I hear that.

Just watched End of Watch, very similar feeling. Makes me miss Southland

[–] BSQuared_41 12 years ago

Man I'm almost jealous. I wish I could go back and re-watch the older episodes with fresh eyes and feel those emotions again for the first time. This show certainly doesn't hold back on gut-punching its viewers, and you have more of that to look forward to.

Couldn't you do something less drastic than sleeping with her? Couldn't you just kill her?

[–] Mr-Fusion 12 years ago

and you have more of that to look forward to.

Oh, I'm already on rewatch. And Wagenbach was right, "Chaos" was beyond description; harrowing, heartbreaking, just a ridiculously rough episode.

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[–] BSQuared_41 12 years ago

"Chaos" was beyond description; harrowing, heartbreaking, just a ridiculously rough episode.

Yeah, very much so. Only two hours of TV from this past season made me feel that way and affected me so highly that I ran through a gamut of emotions in a short amount of time, and "Chaos" was one of them (with "The Rains of Castamere" from Game of Thrones being the other).

"Chaos" was so brutal and hard to watch, but brilliant and compelling all at the same time.

Couldn't you do something less drastic than sleeping with her? Couldn't you just kill her?

[–] MortalFrailty 11 years ago

The last thing I saw on a tv show that left me with the same feeling as SouthLAnd was Low Winter Sun's episode Ann Arbor (2nd to last of it's 1 and only season- sad it was cancelled so soon...).

It was a great episode that made me feel like I was going to have a heart attack along with one of the characters in the episode- very well done.

I recommend that show if you all haven't checked it out.
Tons of people said the show was too boring, but it had some great acting & writing in it, just like SL.

I hated the theme song though! Bad choice, IMO, given the show's ambient score in the episodes. I think a SL or Breaking Bad intro would've fit it more.

Take care, God bless.