He replied,
"why would we be interested what someone is doing if we are not first interested in the people themselves"
Season 1 of AMC's The Killing destroyed this theory, or so I had thought, and then completely cemented it.
I was interested in solving the mystery. That was the point. That was how AMC sold it.
But as the season progressed and some plot developed, the characters did not...
and we realized you couldn't actually 'solve' the mystery.
The season ended, critics lashed out, and the show's head honcho Veena Sud dropped this condescending remark on us,
"We never said you'll get closure at the end of season 1..."
That quote is wrong on so many levels (read Andy Greenwald's review of the episode for a perfect skewering of Sud and her show)
I don't want to watch season 2, but I'm stuck in a Seinfeldian dilemma:
I generally watch television on Sunday evenings. Season 2 of The Killing will be running on Sunday evenings. and I will watch it.
But hear this, Veena Sud:
I'm only watching it because it's On, for the Unintentional Comedy (of which there is much), and as fodder for procrastinatory blog posts about television.
First off, I am honored to be mentined in this blog. Now I have never seen The Killing but I can disprove my own point by watching another AMC show; The Walking Dead(which is also on Sunday nights). I literally hate every character on that show yet I find myself watching it every week... mostly I hope to see them ripped apart by zombies.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading, Dan.
DeleteHate is not the opposite of Love, Apathy is.
Interesting that we both claim to "hate" these shows and still watch. If we didn't care...