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And about mid-way through the series, once it was revealed that Holder was an addict in active sobriety, Kinneman really got to release Holder’s loose-limbed wryness, sarcastic pessimism, and a convincing fondness for Linden that even the ending could not contradict.
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Its been a mixed bag on the channel this year, but recently - thanks to Danish series DNA and now the advent of a trip back to Iceland for The Valhalla Murders - things are looking up. Enos deserves a majority of the credit for sustaining interest in The Killing, since she managed to maintain the series’ dedicated dour mood while always taking advantage of those small cracks in the episodes that permitted her to show us Sarah’s torn loyalties, her parental guilt, her ambivalence about and irritation with the guy she was supposed to be leaving her job to marry (kudos to Callum Keith Rennie for playing the half-baked role of Rick as though it had a real narrative through-line, which it most certainly did not). Ah, its good to have Saturday nights back on BBC Four. Most of all, we had ample time to contemplate Mirielle Enos’ Sarah Linden, as good at police work as she was bad as a mother and fiancee. These were occasions to remove ourselves from the (in)action and idly think about whether it was really as uncomfortable, chilly, and damp as it looked when the actors filmed this thing, and whether stars such as Joel Kinneman (as cop Stephen Holder), Billy Campbell (as politician Darren Richmond), Kristen Lehman (as campaign coordinator Gwen), and Brenden Sexton III (as the mommy-issue working-man Belko) were being directed to remain perpetually poker-faced because any one of them might turn out to be the killer of Rosie Larson, but they hadn’t been handed those crucial script pages yet. And indeed, there were weeks during The Killing‘s slow, sagging middle - those hours spent with what almost always felt like a red-herring plot about the Muslim school-teacher as a suspect or those long moments when the camera held onto its close-ups of Michelle Forbes’ Mitch doing variations on silent, depressed grief - which practically invited our minds to wander.
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He exits, leaving Reddick, who repeats, “Always the one with the conscience,” then adds dolefully, “Sometimes that’s not enough.When I’m thinking about a show’s business decisions as much as I am its dramatic content, that’s usually not a good sign for my, and possibly your, involvement in it. It’s an especially ironic outcome, considering how Linden’s accusations against Richmond incited the shooter who paralyzed him in a twisted way, this is his revenge. Even the threat of a press leak doesn’t flap Richmond, who cites Linden’s history of mental illness. She killed Skinner to serve justice (albeit mostly personal), and now the very justice she fought-and failed-to enact publicly has been obliterated once again… by her, by Skinner, by Richmond.
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Imagine the damage to the city’s (read: his) image if it were revealed that a cop had been Seattle’s latest serial killer. He tells a very different story about Skinner’s death, which the coroner ruled a suicide. Linden is ready to waive her rights and sign anything when who rolls in but Mayor Darren Richmond. After she denies Holder had any involvement, Reddick admits he offered Holder a deal because he thought he’d be the weak link. Not long after, Linden faces her own monsters in the interrogation room with Reddick.