AMC's The Killing - One Point of View.

As ill advised second seasons go you would have to go a long way to beat the American version of The Killing. I still have five episodes to go and it feels like I've been watching it forever. 

It didn't start out well, there was no recap of season one. Obviously, all concerned, though The Killing was such a dynamic and exciting affair that the events were seared 

across our brains. But we took up where we left off, so I'm sure I wasn't alone as I stumbled clueless through the first couple of episodes. It's not like the show moves at 24 pace, so you don't even have to pause to figure out who's who just watch them slowly trudge through the endless gloom and rain. And is it me, or has suddenly Sarah Linden's jumper got bigger? The roll neck is now so high she resembles Wilfred from the Bash Street Kids. Holder is still about, Joel Kinnanan doing his Shaggy with a badge impression. How did this man make it into the Seattle Police Department? Two seasons in and he's still a whisker away from yelling 'Zoinks Scoob'. We even had the stunt casting of Sofie Grabol (the real Sarah Lund) as a D.A. it was OK as an 'oh look' moment, but it hardly shuffled the plot along. But, then again nothing does that, if you ever wondered what it would be like to wade through treacle in concrete boots, and let's face it who hasn't at one time or another, then following the plot of The Killing must be pretty close. Entire episodes go by with about five minutes of action and development, the rest is meaningful looks and mournful silences. The Larsen family have become intolerable and any sympathy we had for them has long since drained. The killing of Rosie Larsen has gone from who-dunnit to who cares? And the whole Darren Richmond political side of the show seems to have nothing to do with the rest. 

OK, you are now saying, but this idiot hasn't even finished the season and you could be right, I might have egg on my face as all the strands pull together in the next five episodes and I can sit back and feel it wasn't all a colossal waste of time but, then again, you might have seen them and be laughing at the sheer boredom I've got coming.

Over