By Latoya Bembry

After suffering through a torturous week long wait after viewing the heart-wrenching brilliance that was Butch and Sundance, U-Boat serves up yet another action-packed episode chronicling our favorite L.A. patrol officers and detectives. While I had initially crowned last week’s episode the season’s best, I had to quickly retract that statement and bestow the top honor on to this week’s offering.

Anchored by two main story arcs, this week’s show follows rookie Officer Ben Sherman’s transition from boy to man and Det. Lydia Adams’ difficulties in learning to let go. In true “SouthLAnd Style,” the episode kicks off with some form of explosive, pulse-racing, on-the-edge-my-seat action, this time a panic-stricken Sherman rushing up the steps of a home, trying frantically to enter while someone is being viciously attacked inside. Our oh-so-favorite narrator promptly drones “Sooner or later, every police officer learns that you can’t save everyone”…excuse me while I fight to contain my eye-rolling. Seriously, couldn’t they have found someone else to do the narration voice-over, I don’t know, someone who doesn’t sound like he’s just risen from the dead? (continue reading…)