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One of the best cop shows on TV, Southland is the only one that features a gay beat cop, Officer John Cooper, played with awesome anger and arrogance by Michael Cudlitz. In the season premiere, Cooper has just returned sober from medical leave (thankfully, since his painkiller addiction was not the greatest pilot), and his new partner is played by Lucy Liu. Hotty McHotteron Ben McKenzie (from The OC) is still trying to be a hero and not taking his shirt off often enough. And one of the great characters on TV, Detective Lydia Adams (Regina King), is still wise, funny and smooth, and her love life is still a mess.
