The Killing (U. S. TV series)The Killing is an American crime drama television series that premiered on April 3, 2. AMC, based on the Danish television series Forbrydelsen (The Crime). The American version was developed by Veena Sud and produced by Fox Television Studios and Fuse Entertainment. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman). AMC announced the series' cancellation in July 2. Fox Television Studios and Netflix.

The Killing was again cancelled by AMC in September 2. Netflix announced in November 2.

The complete fourth season was released on Netflix in all territories on August 1, 2. Recurring[edit]Evan Bird as Tom Larsen, Rosie's brother (season 1–2)Seth Isaac Johnson as Denny Larsen, Rosie's brother (season 1–2)Tom Butler as Lesley Adams, the mayor (season 1–2)Garry Chalk as Lt. Michael Oakes, the detectives' boss (season 1–2)Katie Findlay as Rosie Larsen, the teenage girl who was found dead (season 1–2)Brandon Jay Mc. Laren as Bennet Ahmed, a teacher at Rosie's high school (season 1–2)Ashley Johnson as Amber Ahmed, Bennet Ahmed's wife (season 1–2)Callum Keith Rennie as Rick Felder, Sarah's fiancée (season 1–2)Kacey Rohl as Sterling Fitch, Rosie's best friend (season 1–2)Alan Dale as Senator Eaton, Gwen's father (season 1–2)Richard Harmon as Jasper Ames, Rosie's ex- boyfriend (season 1–2)Barclay Hope as Michael Ames, Jasper's father (seasons 1–2)Claudia Ferri as Nicole Jackson, the manager of the Wapi Eagle Casino (season 1–2)Don Thompson as Janek Kovarsky, a figure from Stan Larsen's shady past (season 1–2)Mark Moses as Lt. Erik Carlson, Linden's new boss at the police department (season 2)Brian Markinson as Gil Sloane, Holder's NA sponsor (season 2)Ben Cotton as Pastor Mike, director of Beacon House, the youth homeless shelter (season 3)Aaron Douglas as Evan Henderson, a death row prison guard (season 3)Nicholas Lea as Dale Daniel Shannon, a death row inmate (season 3)Jewel Staite as Caroline Swift, Holder's girlfriend and a District Attorney (season 3–4)Series overview[edit]Season 1 (2. The first season covers the first two weeks of the investigation of the murder of local teenager Rosie Larsen and has three main storylines: the police investigation into Rosie's murder, the Larsen family's attempts to deal with their grief, and the fluctuating electoral fortunes of a political campaign that becomes embroiled in the case.

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Season 2 (2. 01. 2)[edit]The season resumes the investigation into the murder and reveals secrets about the Larsen family as well as a possible conspiracy within the campaign race and the Seattle police department. The Larsen murder case gets closed with the discovery of those involved in it. Season 3 (2. 01. 3)[edit]A year after the Rosie Larsen case, Stephen Holder searches for a runaway girl and uncovers a string of murders connected to one of Sarah Linden's previous murder investigations.

Linden, no longer a detective, must return to both a career and a case she had put behind her.[6]Season 4 (2. The fourth season features detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder handling the fallout of their actions from the previous season while investigating the murder of a family whose only survivor is a member of an all- boys military academy.[7]Production[edit]The pilot was ordered by AMC in January 2. August 2. 01. 0.[8][9] The series is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, with some scenes in season two filmed in Coquitlam, British Columbia, at Riverview Hospital. Production began on the pilot episode on December 2, 2.

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The pilot is written by series creator and executive producer Veena Sud and is directed by Patty Jenkins.[9]In contrast to the original Danish series, executive producer Veena Sud explained, "We're creating our own world. We are using the Danish series as a blueprint, but we are kind of diverging and creating our own world, our world of suspects and, potentially, ultimately who killed Rosie Larsen." Sud describes the series as "slow- burn storytelling in a sense that every moment that we don't have to prettify or gloss over or make something necessarily easy to digest, that we're able to go to all sorts of places that are honest, and dark, and beautiful and tragic, in a way that is how a story should be told."[1. First cancellation and revival[edit]AMC announced on July 2. However, Fox Television Studios announced that they were attempting to shop the show to other networks.[1. In August 2. 01. 2, it was revealed that Fox Television Studios was in talks with both Direc.

TV and Netflix in an attempt to revive the series.[1. In November 2. 01. Fox Television Studios was in final negotiations with Netflix to continue the series for a third season. AMC, which had originally canceled the show, was also included in the deal, which would gain the network the privilege of airing the new episodes before being hosted by Netflix, in return for sharing any associated production costs with Netflix.[1. Variety reported on November 3. AMC, planning for a May 2. Cast members Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman were confirmed to return, with Veena Sud as showrunner and returning writers including executive producers Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin.[1.

On December 1. 2, 2. Billy Campbell, Michelle Forbes, and Brent Sexton would not return for the third season.[1. On January 1. 5, 2. AMC and Fox Television Studios announced that the series had been renewed for a 1. Production started on February 2. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,[6] and ended on June 2.

Second cancellation and revival[edit]AMC ultimately canceled the series after the third season in September 2. However, in November 2. Netflix announced it had picked up The Killing for a fourth and final season consisting of six episodes.[2. Cast members Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman returned, with Veena Sud as showrunner, and executive producers Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin returning as writers.[2.

Reception[edit]Critical reception[edit]Reviewers and fans of three seasons of Veena Sud's U. Watch Brightest Star Online Etonline. S. TV series, The Killing, have noted similarities and borrowed elements from David Lynch's TV series Twin Peaks and the follow- up film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and compared and contrasted Sud and Lynch's works.[2. Season 1[edit]The series premiere was praised by most critics, Metacritic gave it a score of 8. Universal acclaim".[3. Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter gave the series a very positive review, calling it "excellent, absorbing and addictive.

When each episode ends, you long for the next—a hallmark of great dramas." Goodman also praised Mireille Enos's performance as the lead character Sarah, saying, "It's not until you watch Enos play Sarah for a while that it sinks in—there hasn't been a female American character like her probably ever."[3. Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker gave it a B+, saying, "The acting is strikingly good" and that "[s]ome viewers may find The Killing a little too cold and deliberate, but give it time. Shark Tank South Africa Episodes. Its intensity builds steadily, giving the series unexpected power."[3.

Alex Strachan of The Vancouver Sun said the series "is soaked in atmosphere and steeped in the stark realism of Scandinavian crime novelists Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson" and that it "is not as much about a young girl's murder as it is a psychological study of what happens afterward, how a tight- knit community tries to recover and how a dead child's mother, father and siblings learn to deal with their pain in their own private ways."[3. Matt Roush of TV Guide applauded the series, calling the acting "tremendous" and saying that he "was instantly hooked by the moody atmosphere of this season- long murder mystery set in Seattle." He went on to say, "What really stands out for me, in this age of cookie- cutter procedurals, is how The Killing dramatizes the devastation a violent death has on a family, a community, on the people involved in the investigation. Nothing about this show is routine."[3.