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[This is a spoiler-free overview of The Killing’s fourth season. Please keep the comments spoiler-free here, but…
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Aug 5 2013
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“It is only when I get to the end that I feel my old crime-story depression descending upon me again—because here…
Jul 29 2013
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Much of the penultimate episode of The Killing is taken up with scenes of Linden and Ray Seward spending the last…
Jul 21 2013
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One of the complaints many people made about The Killing in its first and second seasons is that it came on as if it…
Jul 14 2013
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In the DVD commentary to the pilot episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon refers to Alysson Hannigan as…
Jul 7 2013
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I don’t know if Pastor Mike is the Pied Piper; with five more hours of The Killing to come after this episode,…
Jun 30 2013
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Laine MacNeil plays Angie Gower, the girl Linden and Holder rescued in last week’s episode. She’s very effective in…
Jun 23 2013
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This episode starts with a man discovering the tattered body of a terrified young woman stretched out across a…
Jun 16 2013
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On The Killing, the case is stalled, but the show is quietly bubbling along. It’s powered by the confrontations and…
Jun 9 2013
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Three hours into a 10-hour season, The Killing shows no signs of either loosening its grip on the audience’s…
Jun 2 2013
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Playing a death row inmate in the third-season premiere of The Killing, Peter Sarsgaard looks through the window of…
Jun 18 2012
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“What I Know” is so unconvincing it feels like a sullen teenager’s rebuke to an audience invested in answers. Happy…
Jun 11 2012
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You can tell a lot about an episode of The Killing from its car chats. Railroad warning lights presage a scuzzy,…
Jun 3 2012
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If it isn't obvious from all the whiplash, The Killing is racing through this twisty, foggy road to a sudden end,…
May 27 2012
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"72 Hours" feels caught between what The Killing was and what it has recently become, which is admittedly a false…
May 20 2012
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“Sayonara, Hiawatha” is a smart, restrained episode, but I can’t follow suit because it’s time to confess how much I…
May 13 2012
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It feels like only yesterday I was prattling on about The Killing’s lack of momentum, but “Off The Reservation”…
May 6 2012
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Now do you see why the Rosie Larsen case needed a second season? Season one just laid the groundwork for the…
Apr 29 2012
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“Openings” clearly exists to transfer the characters from last week’s stop to wherever they’re headed next week,…
Apr 22 2012
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Where “Ogi Jun” was this focused procedural uncovering the convoluted comic-book story of the boy with the manga…