i think the same people who hated the divergent low points in seasons 1 and 2 are the same sorts of people who couldn't stand that laura palmer's killer wasn't revealed at the end of season 1
― akm, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
watched the second hour. great set up so far, hope it follows through. last scene was fucking haunting.
― akm, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 05:32 (eleven years ago) link
i actually just finished the second series of the danish show, which was great. is the us show worth catching up with as well, or is it basically the same plot-wise?
― chilli, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 08:17 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure. I think it's worth watching but people felt like it took too long and had too many red herrings. the plot resolution was really good though, just not sure if it was the same one
― akm, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
and I don't think season 3 is based at all on the danish series other seasons, or at least it doesn't sound like it
― akm, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
Is there any point whatsoever to someone who really enjoyed the original watching the US version?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
so i binged on the first season of this the past week and really enjoyed it. then i watched the first episode of the second season *MINOR SPOILER I GUESS* and was pretty put off by the conspiracy direction it seems to be taking. am i in for an entire season of confusing political intrigue?
― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
RIP The Killing, someone pls export Joel Kinnaman's character to a better show immediately.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 11 September 2013 07:29 (eleven years ago) link
man i hate this chick's face
also i don't understand the sound production, it seems like everyone is super close miked or like they voiceovered it after shooting or something. for added presence and INTENSITY
― j., Friday, 8 November 2013 06:19 (ten years ago) link
"Six Minutes" is better than this show deserved. Season 3 is solid so far though.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:54 (ten years ago) link
binge-watched all of season 1 and half of season 2 while I was sick last week...though tbf I had to have a break a few times and watch some gilmore girls or veronica mars or lame tv just to wash all the gloom off, watching all those eps in a row the rain reaaaaally started to get to me
I really hate Mitch Larsen's character, but Commander Kane's was v good to make her such a punchable character. Love Brendan Sexton III, though he did p good as Belko (no-one ever explained what his actual name is did they? for half the show I thought his name was Balko like the cartoon dog)
Love Kinnaman. The way he's so chill and the way he talks reminds me so much of a friend of mine. "In the bloodsport of life, I am your sensei" <3 <3
I think that quote from the producer upthread about the red herrings is pretty key. It's really not meant to play out like a normal join the dots procedural. I liked that it was a lot more human in the way some things just seem important but it turns out they're not, mistakes happen idk I dug that. and the family stuff was p good too, I thought.
oh and I dug the Twin Peaksian vibe of it. cold and weird and slightly surreal.
Liked the way it resolved s2. Now I need to wait for S3 to be free on Amazon so I can binge that.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 April 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
The Larsen family, as individuals, various subsets, and the whole chain, kept me watching Seasons 1 and 2, bravo. I didn't feel motivated to follow Season 3 so closely, though the street kids were good, whenever they did get some screen time. The ending was written so it could well be considered *the* end, but still with some room for further speculation, and fan fiction, of course---also, if somehow the show got uncancelled yet again--well, the writers set themselves up for quite a challenge. And nowhttp://lostremote.com/back-from-the-dead-netflix-begins-instagram-promotion-for-season-4-of-the-killing_b42027
― dow, Sunday, 6 April 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, Belko was good too, that miserable little bastard.
― dow, Sunday, 6 April 2014 20:34 (ten years ago) link
I cruised through season 2 mostly on inertia and fondness for these actors tbh, but Season 3 is actually factually excellent.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 29 June 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
season 3 episode 9 (dir. Jonathan Demme) just made me cry, amazing and could be watched independently of the rest of the show w/o too much confusion.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 29 June 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
is season 3 a new mystery?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
i need to see s3, totally forgot about it!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, S3 is a new mystery. Thought it was significantly better than the first two seasons but it still had issues. Final season trailer just popped up.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 29 June 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
Wow, Demme.
― heavy on their trademark ballads (Eazy), Sunday, 29 June 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
Basically all that carries over from 1 and 2 is the accrued characterizations and personal histories of the cops.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 29 June 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
also s3 is largely about homeless teens, a milieu for which I am a total sucker
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 29 June 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
just started s3
this show made me realize how much i love inscrutability in characters
it should be a keyword search in netflix
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 June 2014 05:26 (ten years ago) link
also all this rain & bad weather is good for helping me forget that it's hot as balls here in sactown
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 June 2014 05:28 (ten years ago) link
Sometimes I like to imagine how bad Holder's hoodie stinks.
― Jeff, Monday, 30 June 2014 10:57 (ten years ago) link
How to you take it Linden???
http://plannedbanter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/mireille-enos-on-the-killing.jpg
― Jeff, Monday, 30 June 2014 10:59 (ten years ago) link
The new season, which I would assume is definitely the last, is decent enough. It's up on Netflix now.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Sunday, 3 August 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
Totally off-topic but I couldn't find a general new series related thread. There is an Italian 12 episode spin-off series of the movie Gomorrah out there, so far I could only find a version with Finnish subs. Looks very promising.
― xelab, Sunday, 3 August 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
Season 3 was so good, I'm p psyched for the new concluding batch
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 3 August 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
ust finished this final season. Pretty predictable/safe.
― Simon H., Sunday, 3 August 2014 23:55 (ten years ago) link
Finished last night. Carl and I were discussing the ending, and she thinks that the implication was that Holder and Linden were going to become romantically involved. I guess, maybe? But I took it just to mean that they were going to become best friends again and hang out more. If I recall, neither of them had any romantic feelings for each other through the course of the series, so for it to pop up right at the end would be weird.
Overall, I loved this. It's not the greatest series ever, but the tone and mood of it were very appealing to me.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
Series 4 not on series 3's level but really good. I took the ending as relationship romantic but it's cool that it's interpretable the other way.
I'm gonna miss seeing mirielle enos' face making crazy expressions of consternation and suppressed anger.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
I remember thinking the final episode was particularly well-directed, then realized its director was Jonathan Demme!
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
Fashionably late as always, we just blasted through this whole thing in a couple weeks and finished last night. The further I get from it, the more I feel like this was a lot of good acting and directing in the service of total garbage. The killer reveal at the end of season two was frustratingly stupid and out of left field in the same way as that goddamn first season of Broadchurch (well, we've evoked and ruled out plausible suspect after plausible suspect until just about every credited actor has been exonerated soooo...I guess the guilty party is whoever's left? even if it makes no real sense?). And then the reveal at the end of the third season....hoo boy. I actually called the penultimate suspect very early on as a total goof because there was no reason to suspect him until there was. But the person who actually did it? The first thing that popped into my mind was Merv Griffin being revealed as the serial killer at the end of The Man With Two Brains. 'I've always just loved to kill. I really enjoyed it.' That was roughly the level of depth and rationale that we got.
In all, though, I thought those first three seasons were v. good with the character development even if the whodunnit shtick was completely cockeyed. So leave it to the fourth season to completely spoil the aspect that actually worked. I was not a fan of that final moment of season three (although I'm sure it felt very thematically satisfying for whichever writer came up with the idea), but Linden and Holder's response to that event over the course of the final season was completely ludicrous. I was just like, do you seriously actually want me to come to hate these characters in their final hours? What is that? The very very ending was fine but felt kinda unearned.
Wasn't this thing feted when it was new? Maybe there's a reason I haven't heard a peep about it in the intervening years. At any rate, still thought pretty much all of the central performers were great and I want to see them in other, better things.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 January 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link