the killing

[CORVETTEDUDE]

New episide this week was better, I thought.

Ehhhhhhhh....

[Klinghoffer 660C]

Boring and very poorly produced. It wouldn't even make a good "B" movie. If this is what you consider quality entertainment in the UK, you've got issues.

You're funny. It's like you're not even trying! LOL!

[robertlouis]

To be fair to our American cousins, one of the things I've always found infuriating with US TV is the fact that the commercials pop up, often unannounced, every six or seven minutes.

Even someone with the concentration skills of a chess grand master would find it hard to follow a programme of any complexity in those conditions. It would certainly ruin a show like The Killing.

In the UK we're blessed in having currently seven free public channels without any commercial interruptions whatsoever. And when it comes to sport the commercials only come on at the half-time interval during, say, a soccer game, even on the commercial channels - that's 45 minutes at a time.

I was stuck in a US hospital for a few weeks some years ago (pneumonia) and really got into The Closer, but couldn't stand all the ad breaks, so I bought the DVD sets when I got home.

Good news here in the UK is that BBC4 has bought both series 2 and 3 of The Danish original of The Killing.

[Azanti]

Anyone who thinks this is 'poorly produced' has no concept of what makes good drama.

This is one of the best, well written and most naturally acted dramas in a long time, with more twists and turns to come than a rattlesnake. You should stick with it, if something with subtitles isn't too demanding for you.

To elaborate on Prospero's points, one of the shows strenghts is that it focuses in on many of the raw emotional moments you wouldn't normally see in any other drama show. The scence where the parents have to tell their two sons that their sister os not coming back is positively heart breaking, and rarely covered in a drama of this genre. This maybe a slow burner and is all the better and more real for it, superb and unlikely to be equalled in a long time.

[robertlouis]

Anyone who thinks this is 'poorly produced' has no concept of what makes good drama.

This is one of the best, well written and most naturally acted dramas in a long time, with more twists and turns to come than a rattlesnake. You should stick with it, if something with subtitles isn't too demanding for you.

To elaborate on Prospero's points, one of the shows strenghts is that it focuses in on many of the raw emotional moments you wouldn't normally see in any other drama show. The scence where the parents have to tell their two sons that their sister os not coming back is positively heart breaking, and rarely covered in a drama of this genre. This maybe a slow burner and is all the better and more real for it, superb and unlikely to be equalled in a long time.

You've made the same wrong assumption I started out with, Azanti. The Americans aren't talking about the superb Danish original, but yet another crappy and unnecessary US remake of something that should have been left alone.

Maybe we need a poll on whether folks in the US would prefer to see the original with subtitles.

[effigyc]

People in the US dont do subtitles. Its why they're remaking The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo as well

[robertlouis]

People in the US dont do subtitles. Its why they're remaking The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo as well

Just got the DVD of the final part of Stieg Larsson's trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

Can I please urge all US posters to watch the DVDs of the superb Swedish original before the unnecessary Hollywood fuckover comes out?

[partlycloudy]

something must have gotten lost in translation cause this shit is boring as hell. i wish some white walkers will just pop out of nowhere and cut their heads off.

anybody watching game of thrones?

[onmyknees]

Anybody mention OZ, Deadwood, and The Shield? Some great American TV right there.

The Shield...best series ever... other than perhaps the Sopranos or Sons of A.

[SammiValentine]

The Shield...best series ever... other than perhaps the Sopranos or Sons of A.

oooo i have got the full box set of shield sat here to dive into at some point. if it is as good as sopranos or the wire... i be a v happy bunny