To each his own. FWIW, I watched the whole thing as a marathon over the weekend flipping through the intermissions. I don’t recall seeing that tagline and I had few expectations about how the show was “supposed” to turn out. Frankly, I find shows that match my expectations to be rather boring.
They didn’t solve anything.
I enjoyed the twist. Holder’s shadiness was hinted, then dispelled, then reintroduced. Kind of a red herring protip.
Very cool watching the emotions play across Linden’s face as she sat there on the plane. It’s sweet to watch her think, and with this show I get a surfeit of something sweet.
Yeah, the journey blew ass too. It was a long ride in a hot car with boring people that kept making frivolous stops, them just when you think you’re getting to your destination, it turns out to be another rest stop.
Now the showrunner and “creator” (though I don’t know how she could be the creator of a show that’s an adapation of a European show) is saying they didn’t reveal the killer because they idn’t want to be “formulaic.” The problem with that is that the show is EXTREMELY formulaic, and the formula is Three’s Company misunderstandings of the week. You can only yank the audience around so many times with the red herrings and fake leads before you lose all credibilty, and the audience knows that every single “clue” is a lie.
I guess this particular showrunner previously worked on the hack procedural show Cold case, and that hackiness shows in The Killing as well, particularly in the investigation and interrogation scenes. It follows that particular formula of interviewing witnesses and breaking down cardboard suspects with sanctimonious interrogations, but it’s supposed to be “original” that none of it ever actually leads anywhere.
Balco won’t kill richmond, by the way. The show would never allow anything thatinteresting to happen. He’ll get tackled or something, or more likely, give a speech then break down in tears, then put down the gun.
And Holder will have an innocent explanation.
Not that I will bother watching to see if I’m right.
She basically only has one facial expression - a scowl. And she never once convinced me she had any ability to think. She’s a terrible detective.
You can’t help but wonder if the “creative staff” had old kinescopes of Jack Ruby gunning down Lee Harvey Oswald to use for choreography of that scene!
I’ll be sharing your absence when the next set of “reveals” plops out.
They lead you to think they’ve resolved the case, make an arrest, then jerk the rug out from under with a revelation that some of the evidence was bogus (planted by Holder, who is now back to being shady), and we aren’t any closer to finding the killer than we were at the beginning.
If only that could be true! There’s not a single “suspect” that would cause me any grief whatsoever to learn that he/she done it. The more the merrier.
Aren’t there several “classic mysteries” where everybody did it? They were at least clever at the time.
My only major letdown is that it does appear that Jack may not have done it. 
I had a great Father’s Day BBQ and played with my adorable little nephews all day and then came home to watch THIS. Arrrrgh! Veena Sud, the most arrogant showrunner in America, said smugly in a recent interview that during the last five minutes, “people will be jumping out of their seats”. Well, actually, I was, lunging for the remote and stopping and erasing the show from my DVR for good. It doesn’t deserve to have this crap on its innocent hard drive.
And you watched all 13 episodes?
This is what I don’t get about a lot of the complaints about this show. If the show was so bad, why didn’t you just stop watching? Is all this hate retrospective because the finale didn’t have the pay-off you expected or did you actually think one episode was going to somehow redeem 12 bad ones?
Ahh, but what a scowl! Mirelle Enos has a marvelous mouth.
When it comes to watching television, I live like Bill Hurt’s character in The Big Chill. Sometimes you just have to let art… flow… over you.
Several people here made it quite plain that they grew fatigued of the show midway through the season, but were holding on just to see the resolution. Their reaction is quite understandable.
Perhaps you felt like this was well-written and interesting. Most people did not. I know that I started out very much on board with the premise. I was primed to be a fan. But the show gradually lost me because the writing was really just that bad. Remember, they did a whole show three episodes back on character development, where the plot ground to a halt and ultimately nothing happened.
The “journey” when all was said and done, was on the back of a city bus, where you can’t see much out the windows, and what you can see you’ve seen many times before, and a bunch of people that you don’t really care about get on and off along the way, and ultimately the driver misses your stop.
I should have realized that the multiple red-herrings in the very first 10 minutes of the show were a bad omen. Remember when they cut between Rosie being chased and Linden walking up on the thing buried in the sand? It turned out to be a pig in the sand or something like that, IIRC? The next thing is her being summoned to a crime scene, and after a big suspenseful walk in a derelict building, it turns out to be a going away party? Yoinks!
I’ll admit young Mitch was one extremely hot piece of ass, that sort of explains how anyone would actually end up married to her.
This finale was so bad and people are hating it so much I feel like I’ve witnessed something historically significant.
Watched the entire season over the weekend*–except the last 2 minutes that my DVR ate. I assume that Belko does not shoot Richmond and that Linden is desperately trying to get off the plane. Thanks for the big Fuck You, AMC.
I wanted to like the show but Mireille Enos distracted me with her face: she looks like she is smelling the shit that is the writing for the show.
Won’t be back next season because I don’t care about any of the characters.
*Hey, I was sick and had nothing better to do. If I had known it was going to end so stupidly, I would have deleted from the DVR and spent my time with something else.
I believe you may have. I sense that this is a new benchmark in “fuck the audience” TV and we’ll have a new crop of copycats almost immediately. Maybe we’ll be able to look back at 2011 as the “year the music died” or some such.
Just for info’s sake, did the Danish version traffic in this level of “the audience is stupid, let’s yank their chain” shenanigans?
Did the writer of the NY Times article linked on that page turn off the show before the end? How could she be so utterly *wrong *about what happened? 
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They couldn’t even manage to do that.
Think more along the lines of the The Soprano’s ending with a new bad guy introduced in the final seconds.
This was an even bigger FU than it would otherwise appear. Keep in mind that when they wrote that ending they didn’t know for sure there would be a second season.
Imagine the howls if the show hadn’t been picked up. At least now I’ll be able to read some Wikipedia recaps next year if I still care at all.
AMC was idiotic for renewing this show prior to the conclusion. I wonder if they did it to try and soften the blow from what they knew was going to be a hated ending, had there been this level of anger combined with the possibility of there never being a conclusion perhaps AMC felt it would have been even worse.
What happens when the viewership for next season’s premiere is 10% of this season’s? Will AMC cancel the show prior to the conclusion? Will we be left never knowing whodunit? I think these pricks running the show will refuse to say who the murderer is forever for pure spite if the show get cancelled early.
I’m half tempted to delete my Breaking Bad and Mad Men Season Passes out of rage.