99 Words About … The furor over ‘The Killing’
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It might as well have reached through the screen, pulled down their pants, laughed at their undershorts and called their mommas fat.
After creating more red herrings than a rouge spill in the Baltic, “The Killing” ended its first season with yet another switcheroo.
It was stunningly wrongheaded, and viewers attacked it online, #kony2012-style.
Now, the drama’s back (8 p.m. Sunday, AMC), hoping to recapture some of the gloomy magic of early episodes.
It’s also looking to make amends by super-duper pinky-swearing that Rosie Larsen’s killer will be revealed.
In episode 26!
By then, though, will anyone still care?
— CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE
