The Killing Season 3

We still don't know why :

- Reddick initially tried to dump the case on Jablonski.

- He didn't say anything him living next door to the Pied Piper's first victim, let alone knowing her.

- He took Bullet's final calls to the precinct and ignored them, before she turned up murdered.

- He let the only survivor of the serial killer, Angie, slip out of the hospital before she'd met with a sketch artist.

The story reason would be that he's just an incompetent cop who does the bare minimum (except for in the final episode where he suddenly goes under a transformation and does everything he can for Holder despite being screwed with by him twice). The writing reason comes down to Veena Sud's two favorite words: red herring.

Its ratings were about the same as season two, but remember, they cancelled The Killing for those ratings once already. I guess they had hoped that bringing the show back with a completely new story would draw in more of an audience, but I don't think many people were willing to give it a second try. I suppose the thing to see is whether or not Netflix will attempt to continue the show as they were largely responsible for the third season or whether AMC will want to hold onto it since two of its biggest shows (Breaking Bad and Mad Men) are ending over the next year.

But I figure Seward was just a metaphor for the show - dead man walking, desperately attempting to stay alive, but inevitably killed whether it deserves it or not.

Did any of you try another failed AMC show called Rubicon? It was this NSA/CIA type of code breaking show. Really awesome. Full of government conspiracies and what not. I loved it, but I guess too many people were confused and didn't watch, so they only gave it 1 season.

It's worth watching that 1 season if you haven't seen it.

I think Rubicon's main problem was that it started too slow, which just caused it to shed viewers before things started to pick up and get interesting.

Xarpolis_sl said:

Did any of you try another failed AMC show called Rubicon? It was this NSA/CIA type of code breaking show. Really awesome. Full of government conspiracies and what not. I loved it, but I guess too many people were confused and didn't watch, so they only gave it 1 season.

It's worth watching that 1 season if you haven't seen it.

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Rubicon was elite-tier, definitely the most promising tv show ever since Breaking Bad and Mad Men. The ambiance, the cast, production, the writing, everything was top notch. Too bad AMC went from quality to quantity, axed Rubicon and picked hillbilly shit tier tv shows like The Walking Dead.

iirc it was just another red herring of which there was a bloody trawler full in season one and two. It was explained away by him saying he sometimes banged some high priced ho's and that was that. The whole prostitute thing getting dragged into the story was mostly misdirection, as far as the victims involvement and the mafia-ish dude etc.

Season three kicked the shit out of S 1&2's retarded every episode pointing at a different suspect than last week (sometimes the same one a few eps later!) nonsense. Until the final episode anyway when she couldn't help herself.

It's doubtful it's getting renewed apparently, it was somewhat of a miracle they managed to get an S3 and it took netflix throwing some money into the pot or something to even get it made. Both the mains have movies in the works or coming out soon and she's written them into a corner somewhat so I'm betting it's done.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/09/10/th...is-axed-again/

Stick a fork in it, it's done. I think they really mean it this time and although most of season 3 was a huge improvement, the way it ended makes me frankly not bothered it's dead.

She was in World War Z, he's Robocop, I think the main 2 will pay the bills without the show.

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She was in World War Z, he's Robocop, I think the main 2 will pay the bills without the show.

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True enough, but although the story was weak this last season, I enjoyed Holder and Linden. They were really damaged goods and he, especially, played the part well.

Eric

It's back...

That's right: The Killing, a show that's been canceled twice, is coming back to life for a second time.

AMC axed The Killing after its second season last year, only to pick it up again after talks between the studio and Netflix sparked interest in another round. The third season aired this summer on AMC to fairly modest ratings (ending with 1.5 million viewers). In September, AMC cancelled the increasingly ironically titled The Killing - again.

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Because Netflix is bringing The Killing back with a six-episode fourth and final season. Stars Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman are on board, and so is showrunner Veena Sud.

"The rich, serialized storytelling in The Killing thrives on Netflix, and we believe that it is only fitting to give Sarah Linden (Enos) and Stephen Holder (Kinnaman) a proper send off," said Cindy Holland, vice president of original content for Netflix. "We are looking forward to offering fans - both existing and new - a series that we know is perfectly suited for on-demand viewing."

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I love it. I'll gladly watch season 4. This show is great drama.

Skinner's boogaloo was terrible and totally out of place especially after seasons 1-2. You'd make more sense ending your tv show with abducting aliens, tbh.

I'm only on season 1 atm but I'm really digging the show so far. A lot of the ambient theme music sounds a lot like house of cards.

Good time to bump the thread. The season 4 trailer released yesterday.

Are they gonna dump the whole season at once like everything else?

I actually liked season 3 better than the first two. Will watch season 4 fo sho.

I believe so, yeah. All six episodes should be up on August 1st.

Wow really liking this show, but god dam am I hating Mitch or whatever in the early part of season 2. I dig it though since I don't know who the hell the killer could be still.