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Ha ha, remember that time you all watched 13 episodes of "The Killing" and were furious about it?
Ha ha, remember that time you all watched 13 episodes of "The Killing" and were furious about it?
NOPE. I remember that time I watched ten episodes of Game of Thrones and could not be happier.
@deepomega BOOM.
@deepomega Real conversation I participated in:
"Hey, have you seen this show, the Killing yet? It's sort of okay, but could, you know, like, get better maybe, and…"
"Shut up, I'm thinking about Game of Thrones right now."
"Oh, you'd like it though, it's kind of got this Twin Peaks vibe, and…"
"Shut up."
"Ha ha, no really it's right up your alley, it's based on a Danish…"
*Slices open Horse Neck and sprays blood everywhere then eats heart.*
"Nevermind."
@djfreshie: The golden crown! Fire does not burn a dragon!
@deepomega – "and for the first time in hundreds of years, the songs of the dragons filled the air"
For a while, I was ashamed to admit that I didn't have time to watch The Killing. Now, I'm going to pretend (smugly) I didn't watch it ON PURPOSE because I KNEW the ending was going to blow.
(and I only know that by reading my twitter feed.)
WHO THE FUCK WATCHED ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE FIRST EPISODE EVEN.
@Miles Klee The first episode was actually pretty good? It was just the rest of them that were intolerable. (Also intolerable? Veena Sud.)
@Miles Klee – Me, but only because I want to bang Mireille Enos. And I still want to do that, even though the show blows. (Plot? What plot?)
I don't own a television.™
/hahahaha. Sorry, I'm not really that asshole.
How dare you mock our pain on such a day!
The sheer volume of rage from the internet is deafening. Wonder if AMC's sticking to its guns. Not only did they renew the show but they kept Veena Sud on as showrunner. The "absolute clusterfuck" quality of this season is most assuredly her fault.
@John Thompson The "absolute clusterfuck" quality of this season is most assuredly her fault.
Wait, I haven't watched the show, but … isn't "this season" the only season? Don't shows have to have a non-clusterfuck season before people start caring enough about them to get so mad?
I didn't watch one minute of "The Killing." But after today, I know what a colossal waste of time it was for me to even read that part of the first paragraph of the review of it that I read back when it started. I wish I had never even opened the newspaper that day!
The first 13 episodes of The Killing were kinda meh but I have high hopes for the next 13.
I have them all saved on the DVR, but, um, never watched any of them (it's baseball season and I have a problem). I'm guessing it's safe for me to delete them all?
July 8.
Being unable to discern bad entertainment must be similar to how a crazy person doesn't know they're crazy. I didn't have problems with The Killing (or Rubicon or John From Cincinnati) and feel something must be truly wrong with me.
@goodiesfirst agree! John From Cincinatti was doomed because everyone kept comparing it to that other show that came before. The coverage was all too meta. If it had been some unknown who created the show it would have gotten much different coverage.
@goodiesfirst Rubicon was so good though! So good!
@goodiesfirst There was a lot of good in Rubicon, even if the ending kinda sucked.
I don't ask for too much from televisions shows, but one thing I do ask, if you go on and talk about how the show's premise is "one season, one murder" you implying that murder would be solved. The show had its ups and downs, and if I didn't assume that there'd be some closure at the end of the season, I would have been gone after the third episode.
I must be the only person in the world untroubled by this. I watch the show sometimes; It's fine. None of the other episodes told me who the killer was either. You guys are all OMFG NO CULPRITGASM but I think you should just chill out.
Remember that show, Murder One?
This reminds me of that.
This is exactly how I felt about Rubicon, which I also followed through to the final episode.
@hipstr That's what I call stamina, jeezum crow
You know, in the UK they simply showed the original Danish one, using the magic of subtitles. (God I am going to miss the BBC… especially BBC2! What American channel would make something like 'All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace'? Or show a TV show in Danish for that matter?)
Halfway through the season I got tired of The Killing and let the episodes pile up on my DVR. Before the finale I read some recaps so I would not be totally lost. What a colossal vortex of suck was that ending. I deleted all of the unseen back episodes. Now I console myself thinking I only wasted half of my time.
Lost disenchanted me so severely that I refuse to commit to a series until it's been thoroughly vetted.
From the above-linked interview of Veena Sud by Alan Sepinwall about the most highly-regarded episode "Missing":
"It was also deeply inspired by the "Mad Men" episode with Don and Peggy in one night and the "Breaking Bad" episode where Jesse and Walter are stuck in the desert and dying. It's very much an AMC tradition, to take this rapid, unexpected detour from what we think might be a linear story, and find ourselves, as Walter and Jesse did, lost and trying to make sense. I loved that, I thought that was such a brilliant episode, and I wanted to do something like that."
The best episode of the season (understanding there's a low barometer in place) was basically a rip-off. That alone will make me catch what happens during the second season by reading the Wikipedia entries after it's over.
I could have forgiven the "Oh Noes Not Solved!" ending if the show had not already tried my patience so much. Bad scripts, implausible turns of events, bad police work, poorly played red herrings, constant rain, etc. What a shame. I liked Linden and Holder so much at first.