AMC's The Killing

I thought the new season looks ok, and really liked the way Holder played it.

I thought one interesting note was when the woman in the fishing town asked Linden if she thought he killed his first wife.

Dr. J and I will impatiently watch until Rosie's murder is solved. After that, they better come up with something really good. This is no Walking Dead.

 

I'm watching tonight, and I can't even keep the characters straight. I have no idea which is the wife and which is the mother-in-law. Holder was talking to a recovering junkie, and I have no idea who she was.

 

That they dumped the "Is Linden leaving" storyline and her boyfriend almost made me think there was hope...

I still find it highly implausible that this many people would put their lives and careers on the line in a political race, especially when the guy they are framing is a good-looking white guy. Now if it was Malcolm X running for mayor of Provo, Utah...and Malcolm was running neck and neck...I could see it.

 

So watching this show is like watching Phil Mickelson play golf?

 

Fuck this show.

 

So ... I guess this means I should be glad I stopped watching?

 

YES! YES! YES!

 

The show is now so awful, and such an insult to intelligence, that it reverts to being watchable in a trainwreck-with-severed-limbs-scattered-in-full-view kind of way.

What Killed Rosie Larsen?

 

What happened to make you give up on it, aside from the fact that they still haven't solved the original case?

 

They went way back into absurd bullshit red herring land this week. Thus, it's off my DVR. Someone report back and tell us who killed Rosie, but I'm not wasting any more time with it.

 

I've also stuck to my vow not to watch after Season 1. And based on the conversation here (and among professional critics I respect) it seems I made the right decision.

 

I am still watching. But I find myself doing other things now while it's on. A brilliant mystery is one where Sherlock Holmes fits the pieces together via some cleverness that was simply beyond your capability. And you go away from that show realizing just how logical it all is after Holmes snapped together the pieces of the puzzle. The Killing just takes a bunch of pieces of a puzzle, tosses them in the toilet, flushes and then adds more pieces. It is not only randon; it's contrived, trite, obscure and altogether unreasonable and unconvincing. So why am I still watching? That's a good question. Mostly, I think I'm just a sucker for watching train cars fly off the track.