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Holy shit. Remember that girl had that huge nosebleed, while wearing Rosie's Halloween costume, thus creating a false crime scene?

I hope she figures back in.

"Chief, we got what looks to be a slaughter here. From the looks of it, has to be 5-6 bodies that were dragged away....oh, nevermind. Here comes that high schooler and she's pinching her nose."

I never advocate violence against women...

but this is making me rethink my stance. How does this person still have a job at AMC?  Darabont they tossed, but Sud they kept? I need to consult my wizard about crime scene management.

Or the mystery can be revealed by looking up who did it in the original series, like I just did. Not wasting anymore time with this piece of crap.

EDIT: If they do stick to how it was originally, I'm not surprised that they're holding it off. It's stupid as fuck.

Anyone who keeps watching this is an asshole.

I hope they don't reveal the killer in Season 2 and after the finale airs, Sud promises we'll find out in Season 3. 

So is Veena Sud telling me that it was a wizard who did it, or that it wasn't a wizard?

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Anyone who keeps watching this is an asshole.

Maybe that's it.  Maybe because we're so anxious to find out the lurid details about the murder of a young girl, this is all a meta commentary by Veena about how our demand for this kind of thing is what drove the creation the show in the first place. Thus, if we want to know who killed her, we only have to look in the mirror. We killed Rosie Larsen.  We're the assholes!

Or maybe she's just creatively bankrupt.

I'll sooner watch an entire season of Whitney before I tune into another minute of this fucking show.  

Someone HAS to watch it! How else will the rest of us get to point and laugh?!?

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Originally Posted by Farsight 

Someone HAS to watch it! How else will the rest of us get to point and laugh?!?

No I fucking mean it. Anyone admits to watching this should be banned, im personally offended.

I'm in.

I will continue to read the snarky AV Club recaps of this show, but there's no way I can endure it anymore on a weekly basis.

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Originally Posted by Evi 

Or the mystery can be revealed by looking up who did it in the original series, like I just did. Not wasting anymore time with this piece of crap.

 

EDIT: If they do stick to how it was originally, I'm not surprised that they're holding it off. It's stupid as fuck.

I thought the person from the origional series alibied out and wasn't the killer.
 

The Killing's second season premieres on... April Fool's Day.

As if it could be any other way!

Perhaps we could round robin it, forcing one person each week to watch and recap the mess for the rest of us. A vote on who we hate the most that week? With no repeat winners - no one would deserve that.

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Originally Posted by Farsight 

The Killing's second season premieres on... April Fool's Day.

 

As if it could be any other way!

 

Perhaps we could round robin it, forcing one person each week to watch and recap the mess for the rest of us. A vote on who we hate the most that week? With no repeat winners - no one would deserve that.

Game of Thrones premieres on the 1st too.  So unless they are on an hour later I doubt anyone on CHUD will be watching.
 

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Originally Posted by Farsight 

The Killing's second season premieres on... April Fool's Day.

 

As if it could be any other way!

 

Perhaps we could round robin it, forcing one person each week to watch and recap the mess for the rest of us. A vote on who we hate the most that week? With no repeat winners - no one would deserve that.

Sign me up for this. Could be fun. 

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Originally Posted by Anyawatchin Angel 

I thought the person from the origional series alibied out and wasn't the killer.

 

Perhaps. I can't really say I remember those sorts of specifics. It does seem though that the basic story is following the structure of the original.

As far as the round robin goes, that's a pretty fun idea. I'd be up for it.

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I'm in.

Matchstick died for our sins.

I get a little tear every time I log in and see this thread updated.

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Matchstick died for our sins.

 

 

I think his updates will be more entertaining than S2 of The Killing.  I nominate him to do the entire series.  If he does we should pitch in to get him something nice for the torture.

Season 2 Promo.

IT'S A CONSPIRACY!

This or Game Of Thrones? What a dilemma! Help me CHUD! 

You get a DVR just for situations like this!

By that I mean to record Game of Thrones and the season finale of Shameless, of course.

And Nick, as bad as The Killing is, you guys review movies as bad or worse on a regular basis. Don't give us a hard time for laughing and pointing at writers about whom Special Olympics Athletes would ask, "Why do THEY get their own thing?!?"

Is someone brave enough to call dibs the premiere? It's likely going to be the most frustrating and hardest to laugh at.

Hell will be a snowboarding mecca before I watch one more minute of that fucking show.  

Im serious, fuck anyone who watches this.

somewhere, Sud cackles defiantly.

You mean a cop show that has the detective investigating a government official FINALLY involves a conspiracy? Count me in!

I have no desire to watch this show again...Yet I'll almost certainly keep checking this thread for angry snark directed its way.

If the conspiracy turns out to be the Donald Rumsfeld lizard men drinking the blood of teens for sustenance, I may end up watching this. If it's anything else, I'll pass. 

Who wants to bet the bait and switch of Holder approaching the politician with what looks to be a gun is actually Holder handing him a lollipop? "Here you go, sir." "Why thank you." *to be continued*

Is "conspiracy" now code for, "the writing on this show sucks"? Has it always been that way?

I've just been thinking of previous conspiracy-laden shows, and they were all terribly written. Even going back to The X-Files, the conspiracy storyline turned out to be embarrassingly amateurish writing. I realized that I now have an instantaneous negative reaction to the reveal of a grand mysterious conspiracy in any show. I enjoyed the pilot for AWAKE, but bailed instantly on seeing it was headed in that direction.

Has a conspiracy storyline ever been handled well in a TV series?

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Originally Posted by Farsight 

Has a conspiracy storyline ever been handled well in a TV series?

Does THE PRISONER count?  It's more sci-fi than conspiracy, but all the notes are there.  

"It's Just The Beginning!"

Apparently its slightly better, but still frustrating shit.

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/review-amcs-the-killing-returns-slightly-improved-for-season-2

Will be hoping Matchstick does a recap

don't you guys dare watch this.

Do you want to format or erase!

ERASE!

*Windows erases itself while still on*

hahahaha

You're fucking shitting me. This actually happened?

"Yo, Lindo. Leavin' you another massage, girl. Please hit me back on my cell bones. I gots to talks to yoos! We are pons, Lindo! Pons! They playing chest wit us. Mussing wit our minz, yo. Belko shots his moms even. In a bathtub, yo! P.S. Richmond gonna get the chair. But not the elec-trick one. Well, it will be elec-trick, yo. But not like the Green Mile, yo! Oh, snap. The blu-ray of that is bombs, yo. Tell Jake he can cop it off me when you leave him in a lonely hotel rum. Lindo, we still partnerds, yo! Yoos goats to talk to me! Also, lemmie explain my "Walk on the Far Side" reference in my last voicemail. Rosie Larson to Gary Larson who wrote the Far Side. Lates'r."

Line of the night:

"Do you have any idea what a suicide attempt can do to a political campaign?"

No, I do not! Please Veena Sud to explain please.

I was in the same room when these two hours played. I couldn't tell you a thing about what happened. I remember shots of Seattle and no one smiling.

Heavens help me, I'm DVRing this. I can't help it. It's got to have some of the worst writing I've ever come across in a weekly hour-long. It's like a case study, a cautionary tale. I get bored with the mediocre-lame that litters the networks, but this show is genuinely fascinating in its badness. I continually have to see what the next dramatic failure is.

The "conspiracy" as presented makes no fucking sense. Whatsoever. It's almost brilliant in its stupidity. The Seattle PD continues to be the most inept law enforcement agency on the planet. Linden has turned the corner from obsessed rogue detective to full bozo. In fact, all of Seattle's city services are full of clowns, as seen in a bit of slapstick when the fucking EMTs roll the recently shot councilman off his stretcher onto the pavement in the sprint to the ambulance that's pointlessly parked 100 feet away. But that provided a moment for him to lose a shoe that Gwen could clutch tearfully. Linden's kid continues to be the least necessary storyline on television, with a teen actor so poor he can't even convincingly portray "sullen teen." And the Larsen sit-dram is now only missing a weep-trak. By now, Fat Louis CK only emotes by punching inanimate objects and yelling at his kids or cops (he's ON THE EDGE). Oh, he'll be fucking the sister-in-law soon, no doubt (she's slutty, but mothering!).

Oh, and How To Direct The Killing For Tension In Two Steps: Shoot everything in 75% shadows -- including ICU wards! ICU wards! -- and lay down moodily oppressive synth soundtracks. (I picture Jason Segel in Forgetting Sarah Marshall: "I don't write music! I play tones!")

Not even the appearance of Duck as the new lieutenant can save this.

I'm also becoming increasingly annoyed with being told viewers turned on this show ONLY after last season's finale and ONLY because the murder wasn't solved. The awfulness is so much more than that. It's systemic. I can't even hate it. And seven hells, I cannot look away. Forgive me.

ETA: Matchstick and Dr. Murder, both those moments had me giggling like an idiot.

I'm not watching this crap anymore, but I heard that the twist revealing Holder to be a duplicitous baddie was quickly retconned (perhaps by folding it into this new conspiracy you guys are talking about). Will one of you brave souls who watched the premiere fill me in how they dealt with the Holder situation? Is he a full-on good guy again already?

Turns out Holder didn't know the photo was faked. He got it from his AA sponsor and former (retired) narco lieut, assuming he'd just called in a favor to get the photo so quickly. This new mystery man -- the one with the magically erasable Windows -- apparently still has enough pull in the sheriff's department for them to stonewall Linden when she storms them on the bridge camera working or not. Holder eventually learns he was played, and that he was played because no one thinks he's worth a shit and everyone figures he's corrupt. Which cuts him so, so deep. But Linden (somehow allowed back on the case despite retiring a half dozen times in 2 weeks) won't even talk with him -- he's a co-conspirator and therefore wants to KILL HER SON! she reasons -- so looks like the two will pursue parallel, independent investigations.

Confirmed conspirators so far: the above new ex-cop, the sheriff's office (or at least an officer or two willing to play ball), and the mayor's aide-de-camp. The scummy mayor, however, appears to be ignorant. How a convoluted murdered-whore set-up would be any more politically expedient than simply exposing that the councilman's been seeing whores has yet to be explained.

I'm watching just to laugh at it. The stupidity and gaps in common sense logic it flaunts are positively grand.

Is the show still finding different ways to unnecessarily remind the Larsens that their daughter was horribly murdered? And are there any more cameos from Harper's Island vets?

I'm curious now:

Was the show ever any good? Or were we duped? If so, how were we duped by writers this incompetent?

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Originally Posted by Farsight 

I'm curious now:

 

Was the show ever any good? Or were we duped? If so, how were we duped by writers this incompetent?

I quite liked the first four or five episodes! But, man, it went downhill fast from there.

Thanks for the breakdown, Trav. Rep for you, my good man.

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Is the show still finding different ways to unnecessarily remind the Larsens that their daughter was horribly murdered? And are there any more cameos from Harper's Island vets?

Oh, most assuredly! This time, someone -- the Real Killer!? -- leaves Rosie's bloody backpack on the Larsen's doorstep for Stan to trip over. Holder promises Stan police protection, but when a prowler never shows up to babysit their front door Stan gets to go back to the police station and yell some. (Mitch, meantime, is AWOL, and the boys are getting whinier, with the "Where's MOM?"s and the "Dad can't protect us!"s) I'm Harper's Ignorant, so can't help you on the second point.