Last night on 'Southland' (Tue., 10PM ET on TNT), Detective Sammy Bryant (Shawn Hatosy) thought a talk with troubled teen Casper might keep him off the streets and away from the gangs. But he didn't quite get through to him.

"Rich people have choices. But everybody else? You do what you gotta do," Casper responds. Not only does Casper ignore the advice, he commits murder. Suffice to say, Sammy doesn't take it too well.

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Southland, the gritty new police drama from film producer Ann Biderman, puts the spotlight on the dark and grimy corners of Los Angeles as seen through the eyes of uniformed cops and plainclothes detectives. Unfortunately, the series premiere is mired in cop show clichés and forgets to deliver anything we haven't seen before.

The first episode – stream it now or watch it below, a week before it debuts on NBC – owes a lot to NYPD Blue, Homicide: Life on the Street and countless other cop shows that came before it. It's a procedural with a large cast about cops struggling to balance "the job" with their personal lives.