He can be noble or (as we found out in this episode) totally scary.Īfter the big reveal, detectives Linden and Holder work tirelessly to acquire the necessary clues to bring Richmond down. Billy Campbell has done a great job with keeping Richmond shaded in so many colors that we're never quite sure what to make of the guy.
Linden is literally standing in the belly of the beast when councilman Richmond's dark secret is revealed, and the finale began with a wonderfully creepy scene, in which a quietly-panicking Linden is forced to exchange words with Richmond (his face obscured in shadow), before literally having to push past him and escape. The finale episode, titled "Orpheus Descending" picked up with the (somewhat) startling reveal at the end of the penultimate episode: that councilman Richmond knew Rosie Larsen all along, and was seemingly involved in some kind of sexual affair with the underage girl, via an online escort dating service. It'll be really interesting to see what shape our comment thread takes on this one. I'm honestly not sure how fans are reacting by now. The finale pulled a bold move for serialized TV: sold us the illusion of closure for 59 minutes, before pulling the rug out from under us in the last sixty seconds. Would the hunt for Rosie Larsen's killer actually come to an end? How would the dead girl's family find peace? What does councilman Richmond and his campaign have to do with the murder? And, most importantly: Would we find out the answers to any of these questions by the time the end credits rolled on the finale, or would we be left dangling until season 2?Īfter having seen the season 1 finale of The Killing, I'm about as conflicted as I'm sure many others out there are. I believe what this show was from start to finish was an absolute beautiful show, I loved the suspense, the characters, the stories and like all good shows they end fast.Ever since AMC announced that its mystery-drama The Killingwas being renewed for season 2, fans have been keeping one eyebrow arched in curiosity about how the season 1 finale would play out. The cast in The Killing (2011≢014) turned out to be perfect, the stories or scripts were going well but over time you could see this was a writer/direction issue within the show though the show was great enough that it no longer mattered. The Killing (2011≢014) certainly had a plan and that plan was working, this show kept me glued to the tube checking it out all the way to the ending episodes on the final season. Season 1 to the end of Season Two were focused on one case, and in every episode when ya thought you knew what was going on, the plot thickened.
At first I thought, maybe the actors just werent that great but I was wrong on that as the show progressed. Its as if the scriptwriters didn't have enough content per actor, some direction wasnt pointed out as well many things stuck out but the story was interesting. The Pilot you can see so much potential, yet some things were just not quite there. When I started watching The Killing (2011≢014) from the Plot to the ending, I had many thoughts I wanted to express.
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The Killing (2011≢014) is an americanized version or adaptation based on the original TV Series The Killing (2007≢012) "Forbrydelsen" (original title). The worst is how the season ends…no spoilers but the most ridiculous character suddenly becomes a suspect and it rolls out in the most unbelievable way. It's not his fault, just a horrible call to shoe horn him into a story where the HOURS of slow, boring prison footage adds absolutely nothing to the plot. Either way, it genuinely hurts this season in the worst ways by breaking up the momentum of the actual plot.
It's like the producer knew Sarsgaard and owed him a favor so they threw it into the plot line and wrote him into the story after the fact. Wedging Sarsgaard into it sent it from a 3-4 star season to a 2 star season. And the irony is that you can fast forward through all of it and it doesn't affect the story at all except to improve it.Īs with seasons 1 & 2, acting is remarkable, writing is mediocre, plot is stereotypical. Whoever had that bright idea ruined the season. Honestly this season wouldn't have been bad at all if they wouldn't have kept cramming that useless prison footage in constantly. But I know that throwing in a bunch of useless footage of Peter Sarsgard sitting in a prison cell every 10 minutes and breaking up the flow of the storyline is a horrible idea. I'm not a director or even a script writer.