A-The Killing gets it exactly right in season four, just in time to endJosh Modell8/01/14 1:52pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink[This is a spoiler-free overview of The Killing’s fourth season. Please keep the comments spoiler-free here, but head…
Season 3The Killing: “From Up Here; The Road To Hamelin”Phil Dyess-Nugent8/05/13 12:30amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“It is only when I get to the end that I feel my old crime-story depression descending upon me again—because here…
ASeason 3The Killing: “Six Minutes”Phil Dyess-Nugent7/29/13 12:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMuch of the penultimate episode of The Killing is taken up with scenes of Linden and Ray Seward spending the last few…
A-Season 3The Killing: “Reckoning”Phil Dyess-Nugent7/21/13 11:15pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOne of the complaints many people made about The Killing in its first and second seasons is that it came on as if it…
BSeason 3The Killing: “Try”Phil Dyess-Nugent7/14/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn the DVD commentary to the pilot episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon refers to Alysson Hannigan as “our…
B-Season 3The Killing: "Hope Kills"Phil Dyess-Nugent7/07/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI don’t know if Pastor Mike is the Pied Piper; with five more hours of The Killing to come after this episode, there’s…
A-Season 3The Killing: “Eminent Domain”Phil Dyess-Nugent6/30/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkLaine MacNeil plays Angie Gower, the girl Linden and Holder rescued in last week’s episode. She’s very effective in her…
A-Season 3The Killing: “Scared And Running”Phil Dyess-Nugent6/23/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThis episode starts with a man discovering the tattered body of a terrified young woman stretched out across a moonlit…
B+Season 3The Killing: “Head Shots”Phil Dyess-Nugent6/16/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOn The Killing, the case is stalled, but the show is quietly bubbling along. It’s powered by the confrontations and…
BSeason 3The Killing: “Seventeen”Phil Dyess-Nugent6/09/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThree hours into a 10-hour season, The Killing shows no signs of either loosening its grip on the audience’s attention…
Season 3The Killing: “The Jungle”/That You Fear The Most”Phil Dyess-Nugent6/02/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkPlaying a death row inmate in the third-season premiere of The Killing, Peter Sarsgaard looks through the window of his…
C-Season 2The Killing: “What I Know”Brandon Nowalk6/18/12 12:10amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“What I Know” is so unconvincing it feels like a sullen teenager’s rebuke to an audience invested in answers. Happy…
BSeason 2The Killing: “Donnie Or Marie”Brandon Nowalk6/11/12 1:05amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkYou can tell a lot about an episode of The Killing from its car chats. Railroad warning lights presage a scuzzy,…
B-Season 2The Killing: “Bulldog”Brandon Nowalk6/03/12 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf it isn't obvious from all the whiplash, The Killing is racing through this twisty, foggy road to a sudden end,…
B-Season 2The Killing: “72 Hours”Brandon Nowalk5/27/12 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink"72 Hours" feels caught between what The Killing was and what it has recently become, which is admittedly a false…
BSeason 2The Killing: “Sayonara, Hiawatha”Brandon Nowalk5/20/12 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Sayonara, Hiawatha” is a smart, restrained episode, but I can’t follow suit because it’s time to confess how much I…
B+Season 2The Killing: “Off The Reservation”Brandon Nowalk5/13/12 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt feels like only yesterday I was prattling on about The Killing’s lack of momentum, but “Off The Reservation” opens…
CSeason 2The Killing: “Keylela”Brandon Nowalk5/06/12 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkNow do you see why the Rosie Larsen case needed a second season? Season one just laid the groundwork for the…
CSeason 2The Killing: “Openings”Brandon Nowalk4/29/12 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Openings” clearly exists to transfer the characters from last week’s stop to wherever they’re headed next week, united…
C-Season 2The Killing: “Ghosts Of The Past”Brandon Nowalk4/22/12 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhere “Ogi Jun” was this focused procedural uncovering the convoluted comic-book story of the boy with the manga…
