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do we even care anymore?

Nope. I'll see the last 2 episodes (where I'm sure it's going to be stated that Richmond is the killer, but we will be left with that as a cliffhanger for Season 2) but that is it. I'm done with this show.

That said, I loved Joel Kinnaman's performance in this episode and would totally sign up for a "Detective Holder" tv show. He's been the best thing in this drab, dreary thing.

I'm with Fredo, Holder is the reason I watch the show, and so I was ok with the episode for that reason, but it was way clunky and too late for that much focus on our detectives. I feel like it's always jarring when Rosie comes up, because I've kind of forgotten that's what the show is about.

This show doesn't ever throw you a crumb, much less an entire bone.

I can get behind slow shows if there's a payoff...eventually. I can enjoy shows without a likable character as long as there's plot movement. But you have to give me SOMETHING, some reason to keep watching.

I'll finish it out because it's almost over, but unless there's a pretty terrific cliffhanger, I won't be back next season.

Several weeks ago I said I don't give a good goddamn about anyone on this trainwreck of a disaster. That changed, last night, when Holder tearfully left a message for his sister that he wouldn't be at whatever parade they were attending. I like his character and Kinneman's portrayal.

Other than that? Nope. Still don't care about any of the characters. Linden is absolutely uninteresting and has no redeeming characteristics. Richmond is too squeaky clean for me to believe he's real. We've got Larsen's father in custody and WASTED the next episode afterward to investigate Linden's missing son? Really? Who cares. I wanted to find out more about Rosie's father at this point.

Oh and Linden's husband must be some serious low life and what's her name must be one hell of a social worker for the absolutely inattentive Linden to maintain custody of her boring kid.

This show failed at being good when it kept introducing unnecessary red herrings (terrorist investigation) that REALLY went no where and wasted key investigative time on NOTHING.

Last night's episode was the craptastrophic culimination of how lousy this show is. "Who killed Rosie Larsen?!" Who cares? Apparently the writers don't. Five minutes of investigation, last night, then 43 minutes searching for Linden's kid. What a complete waste of freaking my time.

Throw this one in the crapper, AMC. You've rested on the laurels from "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men" three times too many. Focus on fixing the few missteps taken in "The Walking Dead", it's salvageable. "The Killing" and "Rubicon", no way.

Agree that Holder became a little more likeable last night but apart from that....
At first I was hoping that Jack's disappearance leading them to The Tunnels would bring them into contact with some group of hang-outs who knew Rosie and would give them a lead, but then that opportunity was wasted.
Why didn't they know from Day 1 that she had used the ATM at the casino? The parents would know if she had an ATM card, right? And if not, then next week should be all about what account she was drawing from, but at this point I won't hold my breath.
What about Holder having a token from the Casino that he guiltily hides back in his pocket? If he turns out to be the killer I will kill someone.
I think the only person who could be happy with the show at this point is Linden's fiance who must see what a lucky escape he has had.

Paddydog, it was the coin that Holder stole from his nephew that he mentioned when he was speaking at his NA meeting, not a chip from the casino. He kept mentioning that he had something for his nephew, and I think he was going to return it to make amends.

Dustin, in the last paragraph:
"We watch primarily for one reason: To find out who killed Sarah Larson?".

You mean Rosie? I haven't seen the episode and though I don't usually care about spoilers, that threw me for a loop when I read it becuase all I saw was "Sarah" and thought, "wow! killing a main character? Ballsy".

OY! I don't want to agree, but I totally agree. I want AMC to be perfect unicorn magic that never does anything wrong. {sad face}

But really!??!? One ENTIRE hour in which there is absolutely no advancement at all on the murder investigation? Maybe, if this was a 22 episode long season. Maybe. And yes, there was some great character development and some great acting. The problem was, it didn't tell us anything NEW, it just added some dimensions to what we already knew.

That said, Joel Kinnaman is far and away the best thing about the show, even with his highly confused vegetarianism and his fortune cookie Confucian sayings.

Also, becks, totally. It's so wrong that I really, really, really wanted Jack to be in that body bag. I mean, then at least we'd be getting somewhere! Then there'd be a reason for all this angsty guilt and guilty angst.

I realized long ago that this show was going to fall far short of expectations. I've been fast-forwarding through most of it just so I can keep up on the investigation enough to find out who did it and why.

The characters are pretty one-dimensional and the red herrings a bit too many and too convenient.

Linden, despite being hot, is completely unlikeable based on the show's portrayal of her. Rosie's mother is also pretty unlikeable. the only character that was sort of likeable was the father, stan.

Finally, who buys a house as a surprise? I suppose if you have enough money that you can pay cash you could do it, but who makes that huge of a financial investment, when you are struggling financially, as a "surprise" gift? That's just idiotic. That's the type of cliched writing we are getting here. See, the accounts are empty - now is it b/c of the "suprise" home purchase or some other nefarious reason? STAY TUNED!! It'll probably turn out that he bought the home to hide a young mormon girl who didn't want to wear the special underware and therefore he is no longer a suspect.

Finally someone putting another perspective in, thanks JustBill. As soon as I finished the episode last night, I knew the complaint would be "nothing happened! waste of an episode".

But I don't just watch to find out who killed Rosie, I watch because I like the characters, especially Holden. This ep did that, and while I agree that I'm unsure how the last 2 episodes will play out, I'll give the show a chance to work it out. You didn't watch The Wire just to find out overarching plot lines, you also loved omar, and mcnulty. This isn't the wire, but it deserves the last 2 episodes.

I think we want this linear progression towards finding a killer, but in reality I don't believe thats how police investigations work. It has dead ends and lateral moves, and back to square ones, then bam you find something that breaks the case and the results cascade down.

I understand your point JustBill but if that's the intention it's been handled very awkwardly. We've have 10 episodes of a slowly unfolding investigation and then suddenly we get an episode out of nowhere in which these two basically drive and chat and smoke and completely forget that they have a murder to investigate. I get they were waiting for the ATM warrant, but last week we had Linden refusing to sleep in order to focus on the case and this week she doesn't even dispatch Holder to keep things going while she's preoccupied elsewhere. It's so inconsistent: there are two eps left and they've ruled out most of the main suspects which means there has to be some big AHA! moment in the next two days which will piss me off even more.

If this show were on ABC at 10 on Tuesday then most of us wouldn't have watched it because we would have assumed it would be the same old procedural, boring BS. The fact that it was airing on AMC suggested that it was of higher quality and I adjusted my expectations accordingly.

I disagree that this isn't a good show. If it truly sucked then you wouldn't watch it every week. Having said that, it is not a great show. I admit at times it is too slow. In a nutshell I like the show.

Yes we find out who the killer is this season so you can all relax. If there is a second season then there will be a new investigation.

As for last nights episode, I could have done without it. Clearly it was a 'how the fuck can we write 13 episodes? Oh I know lets do the equivalent of a sitcom flashback episode, episode.'
As a stand alone ep it was good but totally needless. It was like the Fly episode from Breaking Bad last season. Yeah Im reeeaaaly going to see that episode again.

Thanks Dustin. I had all the eps on my DVR and had every intent of watching them. Your last recap convinced me I could delete them, save some time and DVR space and not regret it.

More time to try to get through Borgias, which I want to like, but it has been hard to get into.

Well at least you admit your prejudice, becks.

In the end, you're still complaining about a show that is ten times better than it could have been if it were on network television.

Does he write for television?

No chuck, he does not. And that fact is as relevant to this discussion as your downward comparisons to imaginary iterations of this show.

We did not learn that the casino workers lied about Rosie, they could have forgotten her. We assume they lied, the same way we already assumed Rosie had gone to the casino at the end of last episode.

Nobody has ever looked that good in a rain and spandex

I don't care anymore either and its deeply disappointing because I like the detectives and their chemistry. None of Linden's history had to be explained last night. Her personal life interfering with the case is annoying. It was much better when we had to wonder about who she is. Same goes for Holder. What a waste

Add me to the list of angry people. I was positively infuriated that our time was so blatantly wasted last night. After Game of Thrones, this was a complete and utter snorefest--and I like the characters and have been defending the show's pace. I'm going to finish watching because I want to know how the show will resolve, but what a waste of an opportunity.

This show is comically inept.

It was of some interest that based on the clip in the opener and other parts of the most recent episode, it appears that Jack is not in fact Linden's son. Instead he is the son of a previous murder victim from a case of hers; the father is the murderer; the kid (six years old at the time) had nowhere to go, would have ended up in the foster system like Linden, so she took him in. The father he visited last night was then presumably his mother's killer in prison.

It's a characteristic of The Killing that it spends ages on dull character studies with terrible dialogue, but slides over interesting plot points in seconds.

I knew how not good this was because the promos kept telling me how good it was. If your own commercials consist of trying to convince me how great you are or how hard your actors are acting, the Third Law of Promotions dictates how awful you are. The Third Law of Promotions states that a tv show, film or documentary will be worthwhile in direct proportion to how much promotion is done for it. The more promo, the worse the product. If said promo eschews actual content for testimonials, then the scale is doubled by a magnitude of fucking horrible