AMC's The Killing

You are delusional.

 

This is pretty much how I feel, as well.
I watched every episode and was somehow under the impression they were going to wrap up the Rosie Larson case and do something else next season. I'm not necessarily up in arms that they didn't clear it up, but I am up in arms about having to slog through ANOTHER ENTIRE SEASON to find out what really happened. Hell, I'd consider confessing to the killing myself, as I contemplate that.

Most of the red herrings didn't both me that much, but the photoshop twist really did. (A.) It's stupid -- this is going to hold up in court? (B.) They spent at least a couple of episodes getting us to trust Detective Holder or whatever his name is -- the AA meeting revelations, the episode where he wouldn't leave Linden until her kid was found safe. Now, apparently, Holder is the agent of some massive conspiracy.

I'm not ready to say not wrapping things up makes it a terrible series. But I am willing to say that you have to EARN the kind of protracted, intense investment required of viewers by a show that spends two entire years solving a murder. This series really doesn't seem to get that. Its attitude seems to be "You expected a payoff from sitting through the whole season? Fuck you! Admire me for not conforming to your bourgeois expectations, bitch!"

Come to think of it, The Killing is just like a lot of the athletes I cover ...

 

Now that is comical coming from you.

 

Ha. There is nothing wrong with not wrapping things up, but you better do it right. By most accounts, The Killing failed to do that.

 

Ever tried to put together an old puzzle and end up with a fucking missing piece? It always pisses me off. I never say, "Hey, there's a piece missing. That's an intriguing mystery. Maybe I'll find it next year." When I watch something, I want all of the fucking pieces to be there. If they can't fulfill this wish, I'm not watching. They can call me an idiot for failing to recognize their brilliance or nonconformity. I don't care. I have a finite number of hours in my life, and I wasted 13 of them on BS.

 

much of the vitriol over this last ep of season 1, i believe, is that those who were suckered into getting through the first, largely unwatchable 12 eps felt they deserved a conclusion that DID wrap up the case in a tidy bow, no matter how much the showrunner disdains being part of anything so pedestrian, so ordinary for us simpletons...

had the first 12 eps been of the calibre we were hoping it would be when it began, an unfulfilling season-ender would have been forgiveable, since most of us would have been committed to returning for season 2. hell, would've looked forward to it with 'who shot j.r.-like?' baited breath.

instead, we were given a finale every bit as disappointing and unfulfilling as the first 12. and, at least for now, of a mind NEVER to watch a first-run ep again. you can't play your audience forever. fool us once, shame on you. fool us 13 times, well, go to freakin' hell.

seriously, the only fulfilling move now to get me to look ahead to season 2 with the anticipation amc's gold-standards like 'breaking bad' and 'mad men' have done is by blowing up sheena easton and her staff and bringing in some pros who can salvage this once-promising disaster.

 

Go read Simmons' take on Grantland.

I will be deleting the 12 eps I have on my DVR when I get home...

 

This was also a very good takedown -- http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/06/the_killing_unsolved_mysteries.html

 

Haven't seen this much outrage since The Decision. I fully expect BTExpress to weigh in soon, defending the show...

 

So, you WATCHED these "largely unwatchable" episodes? And there were 12 of them? Twelve "largely unwatchable" episodes, and you watched them all? Were you incarcerated? Kidnapped? Partially mummified? I'm curious, because if they were so "largely unwatchable" and you watched them, I question your decision-making process and, thus, your conclusions about something "largely unwatchable" that you watched . . . in its entirety.

As for me, I watched every episode. It won't be the last thing I think of on my death bed (I hope), but I enjoyed it in comparison to the vast majority of what is on television, which I believe to be "largely unwatchable."

 

yup. watched every 'unwatchable' one. so i know what i'm talking about when i describe them as largely 'unwatchable.' right 'til the end i gave the show every chance to make me feel like anything better than a total fool for hangin' in there, given the cast and premise.

never did. not once.

so, fool me 13 times, shame on you. play me for a tool in a second season? not a chance.

 

the showrunner wants us all to know that when we wake up tomorrow after hating on her 'creation', we'll still be tools. while she'll still be raking in big bucks for 'creating' such garbage for folks only smart enough to get the joke.