{"id":2019,"date":"2012-04-05T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T00:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2012-04-05T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T00:04:17","slug":"box-watch-the-killing-us-and-forbrydelsen-dk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-the-killing-us-and-forbrydelsen-dk\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Watch: The Killing (US) and Forbrydelsen (DK)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, we took a gamble and tried out the first season of Forbrydelsen<\/a>, a Danish police procedural. It’s twenty eps long and some licence is taken with the genre but hey, y’know, it’s European<\/i> and there’s quite a bit of slack I cut for product from that part of the world. It was a satisfying watch. There’s a second season lying in wait somewhere within the keep (it might have to wait until we’ve done Engrenages<\/a>) – and then we heard it was being remade.<\/p>\n

Yep: the almost inevitable American remake, The Killing<\/a>, from one of the Cold Case<\/i> writer-producers. We watched the pilot and second ep and were hooked<\/i>. It was the same, but different. It had brains<\/i> and paid the audience the compliment of being subtle<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Things began to slip away from the third ep onward, until the credits rolled on the season finale and The Goddess and I looked at each other in silence, unable to quite formulate our thoughts without lapsing into potty words and descriptions\/threats of GBH<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some internet trawling tells me that the perpetrator won’t be revealed until the end of the second season<\/a>. Closure after twenty six freakin’ eps? Not even Murder One<\/a> took that long. Suggesting Twin Peaks<\/a> invites potty words and threats of physical harm.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a> captures my thoughts exactimundo: “What we\u2019ve been watching is actually a 26-hour-long episode of Law & Order<\/a>, and we\u2019re only halfway through it.”<\/p>\n

Thank you, but no<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, we took a gamble and tried out the first season of Forbrydelsen, a Danish police procedural. It’s twenty eps long and some licence is taken with the genre but hey, y’know, it’s European and there’s quite a bit of slack I cut for product from that part of the world. It was a … <\/p>\n

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