Patty Jenkins To Direct Second Season Finale Of AMC’s ‘The Killing’

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• Still embarrassed for all those babies who cried and whined after last season’s finale.

  Comment by lethargic — Friday March 30, 2012 @ 5:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Fan complaints are heeded beyond their value.

  God forbid a show that’s unique enough to be popular would utilize a unique story structure in the process.

  Nevermind that it was a remake of a series that was two seasons long.

  Just let them whine and make the art good, for F’s sake.

  Comment by Miggy — Friday March 30, 2012 @ 5:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Forbrydelsen is ongoing. Series 3 airs this fall.

    Comment by Alex — Friday March 30, 2012 @ 6:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • I think what that person meant was not that Forbrydelsen was a two-season show, but that in Denmark the Larsen murder case was handled over what were effectively two seasons (though in Denmark they were called Season 1, part 1, and season 1, part 2). The key thing is, in Denmark the Larsen murder case took 20 episodes to solve, and there was a big break after episode 10, which ended on a cliffhanger. And those 20 episodes were 55-59 minutes without commercials, so the US basic cable equivalent would be about 26 episodes at 43 minutes plus commercials –which is exactly what AMC is giving its audience.

      Comment by MoreTears — Friday March 30, 2012 @ 7:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• We get jerked off by our politicians, employers, banking institutions and mistresses. Do we really need to get it from a TV show too?

  Comment by Darth Mull--ing On My Taco Undies — Friday March 30, 2012 @ 5:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It will be interesting to see how she directs the episode since it is closing one chapter of the show, and possibly setting up a next one.

  I think I was in the majority of people who were not only fine with the twist ending of the finale, but did not expect the killer to be found (the mayor was far too obvious). Along with it being a remake that lasted several seasons before the killer got revealed. I don’t remember them even promising people the killer by the season 1 finale, just that each episode would be one day of the murder investigation. Like previous posters, the show is unique and brilliant with the character development and portrayal of raw, human emotion.

  I think in a time where people can look up spoilers on any site, they get extremely impatient and would rather just know then have a great story unfold. The irony is that you get badgered for letting a mystery organically unfold with time and then you get the same if you wrap it up far too quickly. I applaud The Killing for separating itself from the generic crime-procedurals on broadcast and look forward to more original story-telling.

  Comment by RecceR — Friday March 30, 2012 @ 5:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The problem is that they were advertising the first season with “Who killed Rosie Larsen?” giving viewers the false idea that it will be resolved by season finale.

  Comment by Kavselj — Friday March 30, 2012 @ 6:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

• GREAT call. Patty is awesome.

  Comment by Anthony — Friday March 30, 2012 @ 6:29pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Nobody is going to watch this mess- they need to send Veena back to the minor leagues. Amazing that AMC let her blow it the way she did.

  Comment by This show is done — Friday March 30, 2012 @ 7:23pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I’ll second that!

    Her show’s a critical darling with great ratings, superb cast, stellar writing. How dare those bastards at AMC keep her!

    They should’ve banished her to the Bones dungeon a long time ago.

    Comment by Not Necessarily The News — Friday March 30, 2012 @ 8:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Still not watching. Props to whoever posts “toldja!” first when the Sunday cable ratings come out. Good luck directing commercials, Veena.

  Comment by Jeffty — Friday March 30, 2012 @ 8:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • …said the pissy staff writer on Victorious!

    Comment by Burnt Offerings — Sunday April 1, 2012 @ 1:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• F&^# this show. After wasting 13 hours of my life on this show last year only to get that godawful mess at the end, this show can just screw off.

  Comment by firebrand — Friday March 30, 2012 @ 11:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • but you loved it! Be honest! You’ve already set your DVR to do the unthinkable– and take you back to the scene of the crime!

    Comment by bacon on everything but her back — Sunday April 1, 2012 @ 1:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m a little tired of people using straw men to answer criticism that was targeted at the show.
  For the record, there was no problem with:
  - the direction (Patty Jenkins and Agnieska Holland actually directed the finest episodes)
  - the acting (even if Michelle Forbes did all her scenes as if they would be sent to the Emmy voters)
  - the non-resolution of the case at the end of the season
  - ending on a cliffhanger

  The problem lies with the awful quality of the plotting while at the same time the writing desperately tries to be quality television. The fact that the investigation only progresses by jumping from one unlikely suspect accused by a string of incidental evidence to another suspect accused by a string of incidental evidence (the rich emo kid, the caretaker at the high school, the teacher…). The series of magical coincidences that makes that the FBI raids a warehouse and finds out a rare T-shirt (there are only two in Seattle) that both Rosie Larsen and another girl happened to wear. The stupid lines (“He was wet… Like he had been in water”). The Somali vote. The mayor who’s incensed when an Indian burial ground is discovered and who whips everything on his desk in rage. The perpetual rain that only stops when the police need dogs to smell a trail (that’s two weeks old). Linden’s mobile that only rings when she’s at a funeral. The supposed importance of the Somali vote to the election (a very poor adaptation of the integration issues in the Danish original).
  And the continuity gaps… One day, Linden is desperate because her kid disappeared and that her ex took him for the afternoon without telling her, the next day she’s all smiles: “How was the day with your dad?”

  But the main issue is and has always been that it’s, after all, not a big deal if we don’t know who killed Rosie Larsen because we don’t even care about her or why she mattered to the people she knew. The show just forgot to give her any personality after it was revealed she loved to film butterflies, and it just focused on her parents showing a sad face and an electoral campaign at best tangential to her (she shook hands once with Richmond), but totally boring otherwise.

  The show is just an arty take stretched out in superslowmotion on a generic Cold Case plot without any significant character development that can last more than a few minutes.
  And I WILL watch the second season, just because I need a good comedy on Sunday nights and that Eastbound & Down will soon be over.

  Comment by Dwigt — Saturday March 31, 2012 @ 5:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• Can’t believe so many miss the boat! All such individuals seem to care about is a cheap who-done-it thriller and once that’s found out the thrill is over; forget about a deep sense of drama, excellent character development, directing, and in all just plain good art in film making.

  Comment by Vincent Laguna — Monday April 2, 2012 @ 1:40pm PDT  Reply to this post