The Killing Season One Finale
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 7:36PM 
the season one finale of amc's The Killing aired a few nights ago and although i did my best to avoide any talk of it (i still had a few episodes to get through) i did catch a few headlines and tweets with negative tones to them. thankfully i was able to avoid any spoilers and over the last two days have watched the last six episodes of the season. and all i have to say is... it is a really good show and the season finale was great!
since watching the last episode i have gone and scanned through what people have been saying and it is ridiculous. all this crap about "we didn't get any closure." "we didn't find out who did it." etc... give it a rest!
just because a season is ending doesn't mean we have to have answers. i wonder if it is the "finale" part that is messing with people. the show is coming back you know. is it just that you are going to have to wait a while for the next episodes that makes you need to have the answers at the end of a particular season?
what if we find out who killed rosie larsen in episode 5 of season 2. now, what if season one had been 18 episodes instead of 13? would all the complainers be happy because they got the killer at the end of the season? you will get your closure, just not yet.
rosie larsen's killer will be found in season 2, so keep your pants on and enjoy the ride and appreciate that the writers and creators of the show think highly enough of you as an audience to do something like this. to believe that you can stick with something that moves slowly, is dark and gloomy and not giving you the answers till it is the right time to do so. it's a ballsy move on the part of the writers to not give in to the simple and expected. and good on amc to let them do their thing... this all sounds very Lost.
if you remember after season 2 of Lost the ratings dropped and people started complaining about how the show kept giving us questions and not enough answers. well, those "we want answers" people are probably the same ones bitching about the season one end of The Killing. and those people missed out on one of the best shows of the decade with Lost.
now, i'm not putting The Killing up there at this point after one season, but if you had been enjoying the show until episode 13, then you definitely shouldn't let the arbitrary idea of a "season finale" keep you from coming back for season 2.
Reader Comments (1)
Great review, and I love that you aren't one of the (many) haters out there. I was actually surprised there was so much negativity after this episode aired. I had two wait a day until it showed up online (I don't get AMC on cable) so I read the negativity in people's posts, but wasn't spoiled.
I did read an interview with Mireille Enos where I thought she said the killer would be named/discovered in episode 13, so I was kind of expecting it. BUT when they nailed down the Darren Richmond, I knew it wasn't the end because there was NO WAY they would make him the killer. It was all too obvious, and I like to believe this show is smarter than that.
So I'll definitely be watching next season, and I still really have no idea who the killer actually is, or why Holder made the bold move he possibly made.