The Killing (moving, ferry, rating)

[mkarch]

Originally Posted by bad apples

Is it really made up? Or is it more true than people realize? Seems like the ideal fictional setting for mass murderers and twisted police.

It is very fictional. Starting from the first season they didn't do a particularly good job of avoiding obvious Vancouver landmarks. Many of the settings are clearly something you only find in BC and look nothing like what you'd see in Seattle. Plus they really over did it on the rain. Every episode seems to have a torrential downpour of the kind we get only a few times a year.

In Season 1, the "victims" family lives in a blue collar neighborhood along Ballard ave. It's simply impossible to film anything on Ballard ave and not have a single micro brew, boutique or bearded hipster in the scene. Completely unbelievable.

[eskercurve]

Originally Posted by bad apples

Is it really made up? Or is it more true than people realize? Seems like the ideal fictional setting for mass murderers and twisted police.

It is made up. It's TV for a reason.

And people like you will apparently keep raising their blood pressure by attempting to troll for comments about Seattle that pander to your perception of here.

Relax dude and give it up. You're out of Seattle. Enjoy life, and move on. It's like a battered relationship you are dependent on ... sorta like that hot abusive girlfriend you used to date but eventually the relationship turned sour or you had enough of her BS but you kept hanging on because of some reason until you had enough. I think you've had enough, haven't you?

[GraceKrispy]

I'm not an old fart by any stretch of the imagination (I hope), but I do know who Joni Mitchell is, and I have never heard of The Killing before. I also have never seen Hollywood Housewives (is that really a show?) and I only recently knew what Duck Dynasty was (I had to ask someone because I was starting to see Duck Dynasty trinkets hanging about in stores), but I still don't completely get it, or its appeal, and have never seen it.

[angelenogirl]

I LOVE the show. I watched it before I moved here, so when we showed up I was surprised that it wasn't completely dark outside 24/7. I now see that it's not accurate, but I still love it all the same. Intense, dark (ha), smart. Love the two leads. It's just great. So sad it's ending.

[secret_squirrel]

I watched the first season and a half before losing interest.

While entertaining (at least at first, to me), it is nothing like Seattle. None of the landmarks or neighborhoods are remotely accurate.

Now the movie Singles, that was Seattle!

[BATCAT]

Originally Posted by secret_squirrel

I watched the first season and a half before losing interest.

While entertaining (at least at first, to me), it is nothing like Seattle. None of the landmarks or neighborhoods are remotely accurate.

Now the movie Singles, that was Seattle!

With apologies to Ira's son-in-law, I've found the show (I've made it through three seasons, but I refuse to watch the fourth; can't take it anymore) incredibly frustrating. There are some really good actors, and the show looks great, but the plot and dialog... just ouch.

The positives kept me going (along with heckling the show out loud) until now, but I've had it. I really think it could have been an excellent series. But the endless red herrings and "well ok how bout if THIS random improbable thing turned out to be true" factor is just too much.

When you look at a good, tightly plotted show (like, say Breaking Bad or The Wire), almost everything happens for a reason; you're watching the way a series of events interconnect and spiral, and the satisfaction comes from that alchemy. The Killing is just "this happened then this happened then SURPRISE, THIS HAPPENED!!!!

Ok, enough of my rant. I did get a kick out of the idea of an island off the coast (accessible by ferry) full of plotting Native Americans and a One-Eyes-Jacks-like casino luring in underage girls. I think it would have been more fun if they'd just made it a fictional Northwest city and just gotten creative and weird with it.

[Dport7674]

I just finished the final season last night..I really like the show but it should have been called 'Red herring 101'.

It does make Seattle look like a city with heavy rain all day, every day.

[Seacove]

Originally Posted by Dport7674

I just finished the final season last night..I really like the show but it should have been called 'Red herring 101'.

It does make Seattle look like a city with heavy rain all day, every day.

Red herring 101 is why I stopped watching after the first season. Every episode was:

1. Dramatic discovery (!)
2. Suspicious characters (!!)
3. Investigation (plus a few references on how the female detective was a less than ideal mom)
4. Discovery eliminated and back to square one
5. Comically heavy rain that is rarely seen in Seattle

After the first season ended, many were angry because they didn't conclude it. I was more annoyed because I had wasted time on a show that became slow and monotonous with an investigation that never went anywhere and then they wanted to drag it to the next season.

[Dport7674]

Originally Posted by BATCAT

(I've made it through three seasons, but I refuse to watch the fourth; can't take it anymore) it.

Fwiw the 4th season only has 6 episodes.

[Black_Sheep3]

Originally Posted by bad apples

It's been on for four seasons and is quite popular. Of course it doesn't compete with what most Americans watch, Duck Dynasty and Hollywood Housewives.

Hope you weren't trying to be insulting here, if so, you are very narrow minded to say the least.