#THE KILLING DANISH SEASON 4 FULL#
Sure, the first season was a cop-out full of frustrating red herrings, but the Rosie Larsen case did wrap up in devastating, somewhat shocking fashion by Season 2’s end. Which is why I’ve stuck with the show when many others have long ago abandoned it. “Stop solving that quadruple homicide and take me to dinner! You promised!” These people have sort of selfish priorities, no?) (And I’m tired of the conflict in so many detective stories being a wife/husband/kid/whatever who doesn't understand. Maybe not! Maybe they welcome every time these troubled cops forget some personal obligation, yet again disappointing a loved one. But at this point, four seasons in, we’ve seen Linden screw up with her sullen but patient son (conveniently dropped off to spend a dreary spring break with his mom), or Holder struggle to stay clean and sober, so many times before that I’d have to imagine that the actors are bored with it too. Hence, these looks into both detectives’ tortured lives. The common thinking might be that with actors of Enos's and Kinnaman’s caliber, these characters had to have something more to do than ask questions of suspects and peer sadly at bloody walls and murky, secret-keeping bodies of water. There is a lot of guilty ache and anger, and many departmental obstacles to maneuver, all of which distracts from the thing we really care about. But, of course, on this show, with all its rain-soaked miserablism, moving on is exactly what she, and the complicit Holder, can't do.
With the help of her cocky, troubled partner, Holder ( Joel Kinnaman, swaggery as ever, but with less charm now), Linden covers up the murder and tries to move on. For that reason, you should check out this new run of episodes.īut, as has always been a problem with this show, Season 4 of The Killing spends far too much time in our lead detectives’ lives, kicking around in the fallout from last season's finale, which saw morose Seattle detective Sarah Linden (the forever frowning Mireille Enos) killing her paramour, who just so happened to be both a bigwig in the police department and the guy who was murdering all those runaways. This season’s central murder mystery-concerning a wealthy family’s brutal slaying and the students of a rigid military academy who are somehow involved-is plenty intriguing, playing more as a thriller than the somber grief melodrama of Seasons 1 and 2, or the issue-y, but effective, look at teen runaways in Season 3. The Killing, the perhaps unfairly maligned adaptation of a popular Danish murder mystery series, has left AMC and begun a new (if brief) life on Netflix, and I'm tempted to tell you that this is a perfect point to pick the show up.