{"id":324,"date":"2012-06-22T16:54:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2012-06-22T16:56:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T16:56:22","slug":"tv-rant-the-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"TV Rant: The Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s just about enough.\u00a0 E-titfucking<\/span><\/span>-nough.<\/p>\n

The second season of The Killing <\/em>concluded this past Sunday; and a bunch of critics (Time, <\/em>MTV, Entertainment Weekly<\/em>) had to try and save face.\u00a0 They have no idea how to do that so they just looked really hard for something to bitch about.\u00a0 They’ve been hating on The Killing <\/em>since the 1st season ended without resolving the titular murder mystery.\u00a0 The second season brought the mystery to such a poignant<\/span> and beautiful end; it had critics scrambling.\u00a0 It was tough to continue their bitchy talking points in the face of what has now proven itself a masterfully assembled story.\u00a0 Maybe if I work at it enough I can suck at life enough to review TV for Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Yes, the 1st season (the show is more or less about a murder investigation) ended without revealing the killer.\u00a0 How dare a TV show do something nobody’s<\/span> ever done before!?!\u00a0 The same assholes (other than MTV: they are the main perpetrators<\/span>) moan about the lack of quality programing.\u00a0 What they mean is they wish M.A.S.H.<\/em>had never gone off the air.\u00a0 Fucktards<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 God forbid a show take risks.<\/p>\n

I love The Killing<\/em>.\u00a0 Or maybe it’s loved.\u00a0 The show has not yet been renewed for a 3rd season.\u00a0 But it should.\u00a0 Breaking Bad <\/em>is entering its last (per the creator not the network) season and then AMC’ll<\/span><\/span> just have Mad Men<\/em>, a mediocre zombie show, and a shitty western.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why do I love The Killing<\/em>?\u00a0<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 The mystery.\u00a0 The show begins as a bloody sweater is found in a random field outside Seattle.\u00a0 Cops aren’t even sure there’s been a murder.\u00a0 Detective Linden (who is leaving Seattle in 5 days with her son and fiance to marry and live in Napa<\/span><\/span>) is handed the case so she can train her replacement; Detective Holder.\u00a0 The diminutive<\/span> Linden isn’t the type to do things half assed<\/span><\/span>; and her gut tells her somethings wrong.\u00a0 They eventually find a trail that leads to a lake.\u00a0 The victim is found tied up in the trunk of a car at the bottom of said lake.\u00a0 All we know is she has her father’s credit card on her and the car belongs to the campaign of a local politician running for mayor of Seattle.\u00a0 And after talking to some people; the detectives come across about…\u00a0 38 or so suspects.\u00a0 We’ve got a flat who-done-it.\u00a0 Always loved those; ever since Agatha Christie.\u00a0 And this one touches so many different people so believably that you really don’t know who did it until they flat out tell you.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Linden and Holder are fucking awesome.\u00a0 Linden (Mireille Enos, Big Love<\/em>) is a\u00a0slightly-taller-than-dwarf-height\u00a0former foster child who uses her massive OCD in the service of the greater good.\u00a0 Her pending marriage and single mother status are constant distractions from her mentat<\/span><\/span> like thought process.\u00a0 She loves both her fiance and son; but she’s finding the fucking killer.\u00a0 Holder (Joel “soon to be Robocop<\/span><\/span>” Kinnamen<\/span><\/span>) comes off as the acme of douche bag<\/span> when we meet him.\u00a0 Its an act.\u00a0 He’s always working.\u00a0 If you think he’s trying to pick up some teenage ass or score drugs or if you think he’s being horrifically rude; he’s at work.\u00a0 He’s like a dog whisperer for people with something to hide.\u00a0 Oh and if you think he’s being a pussy; that’s him at his most dangerous.\u00a0 Because you’ll get juuust<\/span><\/span> too close or cocky.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 The Point of the Show.\u00a0 It’s not who killed Rosie Larson (chick in the trunk).\u00a0 That’s what everyone who bitched about the ending to the first season missed.\u00a0 And its not a portrait of city and the forces at war in it like The Wire; <\/em>and it certainly doesn’t share that show’s<\/span><\/span> gleefully encyclopedic knowledge of modern bureaucracy.\u00a0 The point of the show is the surface of people and what lies beneath.\u00a0 People are flawed creatures who have limited control over what they desire.\u00a0 If they want what they want, there are trade offs and sacrifices.\u00a0 Nothing is without cost.\u00a0 And the piercing light of a murder investigation peals back the surface and forces everyone to deal with what is beneath.\u00a0 And what is beneath is not pretty.\u00a0 But that’s not the whole truth because the closer you get to the desires and motivations of people you realize its not pretty because its beautiful.\u00a0 But nobody said it wasn’t sad.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 The slow burn.\u00a0 The show is masterfully paced.\u00a0 One might say it has a formula; in that whatever you assume the direction of the plot will be; you are wrong.\u00a0 And usually tragically wrong.\u00a0 Many times there will seem to be enough facts to safely assume what’s going on.\u00a0 And someone usually suffers for that assumption.\u00a0 The show paints a picture, slowly and methodically, but each episode manages to get rocking and rolling.\u00a0 And you lucky bastards who haven’t seen the show yet will get to watch it marathon style.\u00a0 Which is probably the best way to watch it but you’ll lose a couple days.\u00a0 If you have all the episodes; I bet money you won’t be able to watch less than 6 in a row.\u00a0 Your work will suffer.<\/p>\n

Do yourself a favor and check this show out.\u00a0 And after you’re done crying at the end you’ll thank me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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