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AMC sort of apologizes for 'The Killing' finale: 'Never meant to mislead anybody'
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It's been more than a month since "The Killing" ended its first season on AMC, but reporters still have a bone to pick with the way it ended. Joel Stillerman, AMC's head of original programming, fielded several questions about the show's controversial cliffhanger ending -- in which the audience didn't actually learn the answer to the show's marketing tagline, "Who killed Rosie Larsen?" He says the anger from some critics and viewers over the finale was in part a result of the way AMC sold the series.
"I think the major takeaway for us after the finale of 'The Killing' starts with the headline that for everybody who was frustrated, we hear you," Stillerman says. "If we had to do anything differently, I think we certainly would have taken a different approach with respect to managing expectations of what was going to happen within the season. I can tell you ... it was never intentionally meant to mislead anybody."
AMC's goal with "The Killing" was to take a familiar genre (the crime show) and approach it in a different way. "I think we got there," Stillerman says, "but we definitely didn't manage expectations the way they should have been managed. ... I think it would have been a very different scenario had people not been so convinced they were going to find out."
That, by the way, will happen next season: "You will find out who killed Rosie in Season 2," Stillerman says. "Definitively."
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Sure, we'll "find out" who killed Rosie Larsen, but probably not until episode 13 - the last episode - of the season.
AMC and "The Killing" producers really screwed the pooch last season.
I don't see a problem unless AMC actively promoted the finale as revealing all. If people are so impatient no wonder the telenovel/long-form arc format isn't catching on in America. (Even though it has everywhere else).
I don't think they need to apologize to anyone. It was a great ending :)
I was more upset that they made Holder look like a bad guy, than by not knowing who killed Rosie.
That finale was a big bunch of nothing although, in fairness, there were articles at the time the show launched which specifically said that we would not have a definitive answer at the end of season one. The hype which followed suggested otherwise.
I will say that the plodding pace is reminiscent of Rubicon, which I found more interesting, and while I don't object "long form" television as long as the writers aren't making things up as they go along, I find the day-by-day format complete drudgery.
I didn't think it was great, but it wasn't bad enough to rant about. Or to write off the show.
Just my opinion, of course.
There was never any article claiming to solve the murder by the end of the season. Every interview with anyone attached to the show went out of their way to not say when the murder would be solved. They were specifically asked if the murder would be solved by seasons end and they refused to say. I am completely baffled by the controversy.
It is a great show with great writing and great acting and I am not fickle enough to write the show off completely simply because I didn't get the answers I wanted. Looking forward to next season!
I really liked the show. I'm sure people realized, her partner is involved. It was a good ending because it left me and i'm sure others, waiting for the next season.
The only thing is, that is taking too long and people are going to get inpatient and give up. I can't wait for the new season.