My wife and I really enjoy TNT’s “Southland” (formerly on NBC which was stupid enough to cancel this well-written, well-cast, well-directed and well filmed show).

So, we we’ve been anticipating it’s “season premiere” which has been promoted on Facebook and other places for the last couple of months (I don’t “like” too many things on my Facebook page but “Southland” is one of them).  It premiered last night at 10 p.m., a little late but we’ll stay up occasionally for something worth watching.

So, here’s what the season premiere was like…including the welcoming of Lucy Liu to the cast.

9:45: Carolyn announces that she’s going to go into the bedroom and watch it in bed.  I’m in the living room reading a book (you know, those things with covers and paper with words printed on them).  “OK,” I say, “you know that if I come into the bedroom that I’ll just fall asleep and miss it.”

10:05:  Carolyn comes out of the bedroom and wakes me up on the couch to tell me that it’s started.  Damn.  “Why don’t you come in and watch it in bed?”  “Naw, I’m fine here,” I respond.

10:06:  Cops driving down street.  See young street thugs chasing one another with guns.  They give chase in car.  One kid gets shot.  Cops chase the other.  Thug runs into school yard chased by 4 cops.  Kid is shot but keeps going.  They follow blood trail through corridors of school and find kid “bleeding out” on floor of restroom.

10:15:  I wake up again.  Michael Cudlitz, Officer John Cooper, is working out, lifting weights shirtless going through full range of motion including lower back.  He gets done and walks towards showers showing a scar running up back from surgery.  “Hmmmm, he got his back fixed.  Wonder if it’s OK.”

10:20:  I wake up again.  They’re in briefing for their “tour”.  Michael Cudlitz is assigned to a new partner who wants to drive.  New partner is Lucy Liu.  Looks a lot different from other roles she’s played like in “Kill Bill” and “Ally McBeal”.  Hair’s pulled back, not playing the vixen…

11:10:  Carolyn comes out to the living room.  Wakes me up.  Drags me off to bed.  “Did you watch it?” I ask.  “Oh yes, but you didn’t”.  I crawl in bed and go back to sleep.

Dammit.