I don’t get it. Are you looking at the picture that says “Who killed Rosie Larson?”
Where?
It’s marketing. Are they going to say “We’ll tell you who the killer is in episode 10!”, no. Saying “Who killed Rosie Larsen?” in every promotional material strongly implies that that is a question you will get the answer to. Making the answer to that question the central focus of your marketing is a social contract with the public that they betrayed. Some contrarians have been banging the drum following the backlash that they never explicitly said they’d reveal the answer to the question, but it’s silly to expect that they would say anything explicit in marketing. The show went as far as you can go logically to promising an answer to the question while still working in the confines of advertising.
Read that interview. The entire tone of that interview is around the cliffhanger of who the killer is. The actress deflects questions about it the entire time without dismissing the interviewers assumption. I would go so far as to think that even the actress thought the answer was coming in the finale, just that she was kept in the dark about it. The show knew full well that EVERYONE who paid any attention to the show expected an answer. Everyone who wrote about the show did so taking for granted that a answer was coming. That the show allowed this to be the case, and even encouraged it is dishonest in the extreme.
Is there a smoking gun where they explicitly say the words “tune into the finale to find out who the killer is!”, I don’t know. Maybe someone associated with the show said that unofficially, maybe it wasn’t said at all. That’s not really important, since the entire TV viewing public came to that conclusion together to the degree that there were casino’s taking wagers on who the killer would be in the finale.
Fuck this show and fuck AMC, I’ll never trust a damn thing they say ever again and I won’t waste my time with any of their shows unless I have a damn good reason.
And remember, they were marketing that “who killed Rosie Larsen” shit before the series had been picked up for a second season. It was supposed to be a one-off, self-contained mini-series, consistently promoted as a whodunnit. For them to now deny they’d ever implied that the mystery would be resolved is disengenuous.
There seemed to be a huge logic hole in the final ep: so the guy puts a hundred miles extra on the car, which means (as far as I can tell) the girl was killed 50 miles from Seattle. So why are two Seattle cops involved in any way?
The island they were showing on the map was Whidbey Island, by the way. The bridge is Deception Pass and it’s not a toll bridge, but I know this was all done for plot reasons, and is not a reality show.
Color me one of the Pissed Off People who thought this was a one-season plotline, with the reveal in the last episode. I’ve come to hate all the characters, the staring, the moping, the grimacing, etc. I doubt I’ll be back next season, though my wife doesn’t seem to mind it.
Oh, and fuck AMC for postponing another Mad Men season until fucking 2012. Assholes.
The killer (Gwen) (come on, you know it was Gwen!) put an extra hundred miles on the car taking the long way back to the city, but Rosie escaped into the park within city limits and was drowned in the trunk, so the crime took place inside the pond where they found the car. She was alive when the car went in the water.
Doesn’t explain assigning two nitwits to the case, though.
Somebody please correct my memory on a glaring detail. When “Euler” (or is it “Fermat”?) was checking the map for mileage the car had run up and had the ferry ride included in the total did he count the ferry ride’s distance in the car’s mileage? I was thinking that he did and began to wonder if they do some magic on a stationary car (I must assume) to get its odometer to advance while it’s sitting still on a ferry.
Surely I must be misremembering that.
No, pretty sure you have it right. I’m never going to watch another second of this show, however, so I can’t be 100% positive. Yet another writer fail that was both baffling and infuriating (along with the plentiful examples given upthread). Sigh.
I’m pretty sure we wasn’t counting the mileage from the ferry ride. Even this show is not that dumb.
Rewatching the scene just now, it’s clear he’s not including it. “From the campaign headquarters to the casino and back is 20 miles.”
Why exactly was Linden so hostile to Holder actually doing, you know, detective work? It was the first bit of detecting that either of them did all season.
Cause she’s a bitch.
Would we maybe like her better if they let her look like this?
Google image shows that she’s got some nice cans, but they kept her swaddled up those stupid sweaters all the time so we couldn’t see them. Yet another reason to hate this show.
According to my link to the Bill Simmons article, they did that b/c she was five months pregnant while they filmed the pilot, so they kept her wearing them for the rest of the episodes. Of course, she could have the greatest cans in the world and it wouldn’t help much if she always has that glued on look like someone just farted.
Murders, rain, elections, farts. Whatever, dude.
It was your reference to that fine article that gave me the idea to find some less pained looks for her. There are some shots of her that look like she could play Ellen Pompeo’s sister if they need another actress for that sometime.
Don’t forget she’s always chomping on gum. The fact that it’s nicotine gum doesn’t change the fact that it’s annoying as hell to watch someone constantly masticating on screen. The writers probably count it as character development.
The showrunner continues to bob and weave: http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/21/killing-producer-we-never-said-thered-be-closure/
Certainly a smile tops a permanent scowl.
I was particularly amused to see this last line of that article:
As best I can tell there have been shitty shows of all genres since around 1948 and I’m really curious what’s so new about pissing of the audience.
Bingo!!
First of all, she’s lying. They did promise that implicitly in their advertising, and secondly, the show is not doing anything different. It’s a pretty standard procedural, for the most part. all the leads just turn out to be blind alleys.