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'The Killing' season finale: Wait till next year
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For nearly all of Sunday's (June 19) season finale of "The Killing," it looked like the twist at the end would be that there was no twist: Evidence kept piling up against Darren Richmond, and he wasn't doing a very convincing job of countering it.That would have been infinitely preferable to the out-of-nowhere twist and non-ending we actually got in the show's final moments. I said in one of the preview posts I wrote earlier in the season that the show played pretty fair with the audience; I'd like to retract that statement now, because even though there is a second season of "The Killing" coming, the finale was such a copout that it's really hard to have faith in the show going forward.
The implicit promise of "The Killing" was that by the end of the season, we'd know who Rosie Larsen's murderer is. Instead, all we know now is that Richmond has been framed by whoever picked up Holder in the car, Linden presumably can't do anything about it now that she's finally headed to California and Richmond himself is possibly dead at the unhinged hand of Belko Royce, or at least gravely wounded.
That's not cool.
The series obviously wants us to be asking who Holder's mysterious partner is, why Holder hung Linden out to dry and (again) who really killed Rosie. What I'm asking now is why if "The Killing" wanted to take this path all along, why it didn't at least have enough regard for its viewers to, say, let us see who Holder's conspiring with. Cliffhangers are fine -- and inevitable in a series structured the way "The Killing" is -- but to leave essentially everything up in the air simply isn't a fair play.
Given what just happened, it feels now like the only honest beats we got from the show were in portraying a family's grief at the loss of a child. The writing didn't always measure up to the performances Michelle Forbes and Brent Sexton gave, it at least gave them a chance to show the real, raw emotion that expresses itself in situations like the one the Larsens have dealt with over the course of the season.
As for the investigation: Can we now trust anything at all that Holder did? Rather than prove himself a competent detective as it seemed like he was doing with the way he sussed out Richmond's likely route in the campaign car, we're to believe he was just playing a con. How far back does that go? Has he been setting Linden up the whole time? It's exhausting to think about, and frankly not worth the effort.
"The Killing" burned up an awful lot of goodwill for me in the finale; what did you think?
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Agree with your sentiments completely. I stayed loyal to the show this whole season, while others were complaining it was slow and boring. I can't believe they did this to all the loyal fans. I'm almost angry enough to say screw the 2nd season. Heck, if the show didn't get picked up for a 2nd season we'd all be left completely with no resolution, ever.
I dont remember being promised that we will find out who killed Rosie in the finale.
oh well, i though it was a great episode and i cant wait for season 2. i just hope we dont have a Breaking Bad or Mad Men long break between seasons.
It's a great show!
I disagree with you completely.
Folks want things tied up in neat little packages - no patience at all.
Season two will reward our patience for sure...this is not typical TV...thank God.
I think you are way off the mark with this. If anything they did what they set out to do and because it didn't fit your wishes you get testy about it. I couldn't believe how they ended this especially with Holder. I never saw that coming a million miles away and thought it was brilliant. Regardless that Richmond was framed they think they got their man and how brilliant to have Linden on the plane and get the phone call knowing, for right now that she can't do a thing. It was as good as the episode that just featured Linden and Holder (11) Kudos to AMC
Could not disagree more. I love that the one thing usually promised in all "mystery arc" shows (Twin Peaks, Veronica Mars) was completely subverted here. And finding out who Holder was meeting with would have revealed EVERYTHING. We don't need all that. We have one of the great twists of this entire season of TV.
Not since the final of The Sopranos have I ever felt so let down! For weeks I put up with b rated acting, screwed up plots to at least find out who killed Rosie. Would someone please explain why a really good show like Detroit 1-8-7 was cancelled and this garbage was renewed? I won't be watching next season to find out anything, this show is a joke!
It seems that Fox and AMC were expecting some backlash from Ms. Sud's ego driven joke on her viewers. They have cronies hitting all of the review sites on the net.
This was one of the most bogus lies that I have ever seen. In at least one interview I read with Ms. SOOD
she was asked directly if we would learn who killed Rosie in the finale and she said "no doubt".
This is hilarious. I can't believe people are so put out by not finding out (yet) who killed Rosie. You have to be willing to float with the current to get something out of this show. Who killed her is only part of the story. And maybe not the most interesting part.
I will concede, though, that AMC's promos seem to have led people to believe the show was something other than it was. But "The Killing" has had me riveted from Day One, and I'm not even sure why. Can't wait for next season.
The original premise of this show was brilliant and captivating. Each season we would see a single case, we would see into the depths of the grieving family, and then it would all be wrapped up at the end.
The show was slow, ponderous, and ultimately powerful because of this.
It wasn't like normal television, it was something unique and moving.
And then what do we get in the end? A cheap, crappy cop-out. This is the kind of ending you'd see at the end of a season of 24 and it was old hat then.
This show went from a brilliant breath of fresh air to a mundane pile of trash.
I cannot believe they expect me to invest in an entire other season to MAYBE find out "the truth", which I really don't even give a damn to find out anyway at this point. "Hurrr, HOlder is suddenly THE BAD GUY!"
Lame. Idiotic. Trite. Dull. Boring.
In one episode this went from my second favorite show on tv (behind Game of Thrones) to something I don't care to watch again.
After getting through 13 episodes, and falling asleep a few times when it dragged, I was hoping we could wrap this up and move on to a new case next season with the now developed characters. So how am I supposed to believe that I won't be dragged into a 3rd feeling the same way? What a waste. Wake me up when you're ready to tell me who did it. Until then I'll read the brief.