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Yet another disappointing episode.
The Casino is on the old Indian Burial Ground trope.... got it.
We are six episodes away from when the killer is supposed to be revealed and for those of you who think it will... we are zero steps closer to where we were at the start of season one. We've had virtually no development in any of the characters (other than Stan last night who showed some real flashes of brilliance at times), numerous red herrings thrown out and new tropes introduced... just because. And that's really why the show is so frustrating. There was no ******* need for two seasons of this crap. There just wasn't. Nothing's been developed. No plot lines ever move forward. Characters remain largely either stock or cliche. There is no tension being created. The most obvious source of tension is in the campaign with Jamie and the other aide, but that's best described as professional friction, which is not good for anything in... you know a drama... an art form that must have tension.
So anyway, back to the whodunnit (which has taken a backseat this season), let's assume it does get wrapped up in six episodes. Do you really think it'll be done satisfactorily?
Were any of the major plot lines Sunday night in anyway believable (aside from Stan losing it at Terry)? Really, DFACS is going to let them escape that easily? Really? The only time Holder's cell phone works is once he's being beaten up? The head of the casino has been following Linden throughout the forest? I mean, seriously this is not the first time the campaign has focused on newspapers as a critical part of the story (FYI, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer shut down in 2009 and while, sure this is fictional it doesn't help create the realism the show is striving for). Really? The media in Seattle stops caring about the murder of an attractive teenage white chick? REALLY?
Do the writers even care about what they put into the script? CF: "it's too hard for Darrin to leave the hospital"... so he goes to Stan's house seemingly alone. Linden's son is now in on the whole over the top melodrama that consumes all the other characters, yay. Also, seriously, does anything at all in these characters lives have any impact on anything past a few episodes? Stan's still a free man? No repercussions to bailing out on your fiancee? The near-relapse of Holder? holy **** it goes on and on...
Perhaps what makes the show so frustrating is there are moments of genuine and legitimate brilliance that all get lost in the overwhelming mediocrity of the show. And I'll give it credit, the killing is no longer as formulaic as it once was. The red herrings would be dismissed in three episodes but now its done in either one or two. Congrats.
Side note: The Killing jumped the shark way back in season one at the end when Bennett was on the phone with that dude and he was speaking fluent Arabic then all of a sudden switches to English just to deliver the key "incriminating" line. Everyone should have realized then what a joke the show is.
The Casino is on the old Indian Burial Ground trope.... got it.
We are six episodes away from when the killer is supposed to be revealed and for those of you who think it will... we are zero steps closer to where we were at the start of season one. We've had virtually no development in any of the characters (other than Stan last night who showed some real flashes of brilliance at times), numerous red herrings thrown out and new tropes introduced... just because. And that's really why the show is so frustrating. There was no ******* need for two seasons of this crap. There just wasn't. Nothing's been developed. No plot lines ever move forward. Characters remain largely either stock or cliche. There is no tension being created. The most obvious source of tension is in the campaign with Jamie and the other aide, but that's best described as professional friction, which is not good for anything in... you know a drama... an art form that must have tension.
So anyway, back to the whodunnit (which has taken a backseat this season), let's assume it does get wrapped up in six episodes. Do you really think it'll be done satisfactorily?
Were any of the major plot lines Sunday night in anyway believable (aside from Stan losing it at Terry)? Really, DFACS is going to let them escape that easily? Really? The only time Holder's cell phone works is once he's being beaten up? The head of the casino has been following Linden throughout the forest? I mean, seriously this is not the first time the campaign has focused on newspapers as a critical part of the story (FYI, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer shut down in 2009 and while, sure this is fictional it doesn't help create the realism the show is striving for). Really? The media in Seattle stops caring about the murder of an attractive teenage white chick? REALLY?
Do the writers even care about what they put into the script? CF: "it's too hard for Darrin to leave the hospital"... so he goes to Stan's house seemingly alone. Linden's son is now in on the whole over the top melodrama that consumes all the other characters, yay. Also, seriously, does anything at all in these characters lives have any impact on anything past a few episodes? Stan's still a free man? No repercussions to bailing out on your fiancee? The near-relapse of Holder? holy **** it goes on and on...
Perhaps what makes the show so frustrating is there are moments of genuine and legitimate brilliance that all get lost in the overwhelming mediocrity of the show. And I'll give it credit, the killing is no longer as formulaic as it once was. The red herrings would be dismissed in three episodes but now its done in either one or two. Congrats.
Side note: The Killing jumped the shark way back in season one at the end when Bennett was on the phone with that dude and he was speaking fluent Arabic then all of a sudden switches to English just to deliver the key "incriminating" line. Everyone should have realized then what a joke the show is.
