AMC's The Killing

Utter horseshit.

I stuck with this show all season, hoping it would pay off in the end. But that was just a twist for the sake of a twist.

Fuckin' weak.

I'm done.

 

Yeah...I'm going to fetch the Danish series it was based off of and just watch all of it. No sense in waiting months for this pile to come back.

 

Sepinwall:

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/the-killing-orpheus-descending-reviewing-the-season-finale

 

Didn't see that ending coming, though thinking back to those earlier episodes when Linden caught Holder getting paid through an unknown car window makes more sense now. Yeah, they threw us off with that bit where she followed him to what turned out to be an AA meeting, but now some of the pieces are starting to come together.

Of course the fact that this was the season finale pisses me off as well because I don't appreciate having to wait around three months or whenever the second season debuts to find out if my theories are on target.

 

The only way this works is if they wrap the initial murder in the first ep and spin it forward - if its another 13? Forget it. Sure I'd like to know if the teacher recovers, what happens to Rosie's family - but that's about it. About the only payoff we got was Linden actually got on the freaking plane.
Figure it was all to swing the election since that photo could get knocked down with a phone call - which makes me thing it was blondie doing her dad a solid and lying to the cops (figure if she was, or wasn't there, Richmond would know) and was able to tie in Rosie.

 

The twist was that there was no real answer. Sure, Holder had the photo doctored, but I'm thinking for no other reason than to sink Richmond's campaign (money from the mayor to help his family, etc.). Holder didn't kill Rosie.

The person who seems most likely to have done it is Gwen. She saw that the police were close to Richmond and lied about the night, his coming home at dawn.

Likely in the minority here, but I like that there is no answer. The show was never about the answer, it was about the process in getting there, that things are much more complicated than 'who did it?'

No matter the killer, a large and vocal swath of viewers would have thought the resolution: too easy to figure/too hard to figure/a copout/a red herring/not earned/fill in the blank.

Any one of a number of things could have happened in all this, and Linden is left on a place knowing they likely did not arrest the killer; that's going to eat at her like nothing else.

This is drama. This is what art is about. This is making you think about your decisions, how you live your life, with whom you associate.

Just a tremendous, tremendous show.

 

No offense to you personally - really - but are you fucking kidding?

I would rather watch a Grey's Anatomy-themed Celebrity Apprentice with One Tree Hill on in the picture in picture while listening to a Colin Cowherd podcast dissecting a Dancing with the Stars hosted by Stephen A. Smith and ... and ... you get it.

What a horrible fucking wreck of a finale, and a show. I long for the continuity of 24, the empathy of Mike Scully's Simpsons, everything that happened with Michael Scott since 2008.

I can't say one good goddamn thing. Sepinwall's interview, though, brought to mind Jon Stewart telling that weiner on MSNBC to stop hurting America. And Mo Ryan's diatribe .... all told, two classy, intelligent people collectively losing their shit because something was so awful.

 

I watched only the last one because my daughter was into the show, and I wanted to see who done it.

Boy, is she pissed.

 

Exactly.

If Holder was being paid off to frame Richmond from the beginning — and Veena Sud said he was in the Sepinwall interview Giggity referenced and that I've linked below — then that photo should have surfaced weeks ago.

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/interview-the-killing-showrunner-veena-sud-on-the-season-finale

Instead, the producers jerked off for 13 weeks and then decided to wrap the season up WITH A TWIST EVERYONE'S GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!! (but not in a good way).

I really, Really, REALLY wanted to like this show and gave it every chance to win me over. But it was poorly written, poorly paced and insulted its audience's intelligence.

Bottom line: It was not up to AMC's standards.

 

I think Gwen killed Rosie, too.

Pretty pissed at how we were strung along. I don't think I'll watch the second season. Makes me wish I had DirecTV, so I could watch Damages.

 

To piggyback on CI's excellent take, I think it kinda genius they left everyone hanging. Life is not a series of 13-episode solutions. I'll be watching next season, and, I suspect, so will most of you.

 

Another passage from Sepinwall, who can say this better than I can: