History Series / HapAndLeonard

* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Hap is indeed Hap's legal name as shown in the flashback to Hap recieving his call up papers to serve in Vietnam.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Hap and Trudy.

* OddCouple: Hap is white, liberal, and heterosexual. Leonard is black, conservative, and ManlyGay. TheyFightCrime!

** Despite having an appearance of an AmbiguouslyEvil CorruptHick, Sheriff Otis Valentine in Season 2 [[GoodAllAlong proves himself to be]].

* BreakTheCutie: Slow burn in the case of Hap. [[spoiler: His father was killed by a drunken teenage Beau Otis, present day county judge in Laborde. Hap suffers with the psychological damage inflicted upon him as a child, while Otis prospers and barely gives thought to that fateful night.]]

Set in the late 1980s in the fictional East Texas town, it focuses on the titular characters (respectively played by James Purefoy and Creator/MichaelKWilliams). Hap Collins, a white working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to be drafted into the military and serve in the Vietnam War and Leonard Pine, a gay black Vietnam vet with serious anger issues.

* GladToBeAliveSex: Hap and Trudy engage in this after nearly becoming gator chow also doubles as YourCheatingHeart on Trudy's part.

Set in the late 1980s in the fictional East Texas town, it focuses on the titular characters (respectively played by James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams). Hap Collins, a white working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to be drafted into the military and serve in the Vietnam War and Leonard Pine, a gay black Vietnam vet with serious anger issues.

* BadassGay: Leonard.

* EveryScarHasAStory: Paco's extremely noticeable disfigured face was [[[spoiler: from an accidental explosion decades prior.]]

* TheEighties: Season 1 is set in 1988.

* AdaptationalCurves: While no particular mentions is made in the novel about Trudy's bust, her role is played by the very buxom Creator/ChristinaHendricks.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[TropeCodifier Hap And Leonard, of course!]]

* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler: When Angel is fatally wounded from the arrow Hap fired at her throat, Soldier comforts her with visions of their future living off the loot in Acapulco.]] [[SubvertedTrope SUBVERTED]]

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:The hunt for Florida. After an arduous adventure to find her, she and Hap are reunited for barely 5 minutes before she's washed away in the damn flood and fatally impaled on some debris.]]

* OddCouple: Hap is white, liberal, and heterosexual. Leonard is black, conservative, and ManlyGay.

** Threaten MeMaw and Reverend Fitzgerald in front of T.J. at your own peril.

** [[spoiler: MeMaw literally dies when given the news that not only are her grandchildren dead, but the ones responsible for the string of child murders in Cooperstown.]]

** MeMaw's childhood run-in with the Klu Klux Klan at her church, and in a way [[spoiler: MeMaw herself. Her grandsons, Reverend John Fitzgerald and T.J., are behind the series of grisly child murders in Cooperstown. And her old defunct church serves as the burial grounds for Fitzgerald's victims.]]

** MeMaw's burns on her arms come from trying to put out a church fire when she was a child.

** [[spoiler: The circumstances by which T.J. is killed by Detective Charlie LeBlanc. He didn't need to die, and he was just as much a victim as any of the boys his brother killed.]]