Use a stopwatch, pencil, and paper to measure the length and number of wasted scenes. You won't need paper to record the humorous or exciting scenes. After a while, you will begin to count excess drama (grieving parents, over and over and ...). How long does it take a viewer to figure out that the parents are upset? Talk about overdone! Too many relationships that no normal person will care about. Female detective and a butt-head of a partner; husband and wife and their kids; sad and bullied girlfriend of the dead girl; detective and her fiancée and her spoiled kid; detective who has already determined to move to CA, but hangs around Seattle to solve the crime. Her persistence drives her moron fiancée crazy. Why does she love this selfish man? Maybe because she is not very cute and has a dull personality. The entire first season could easily have been a 90 minute show by taking out the repetitive, phony drama, artsy shots of Seattle area, the dad's money problems, you name it. Did this show have no editor or did the writers have to fill time? Some obvious trails ignored by the detectives early on. This series was tailor-made for people who love Family Feud, Martha Stewart Living, or any other show that requires the brain activity we associate with sleep.
Review of The Killing
