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Topic History of: Well The Killing was absolutely spectacularly brilliant television
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DJones	There's a new story about The Killing in the Guardian, with quotes from Sofie Gråbøl, Søren Sveistrup (writer) and Lars Mikkelsen (Hartmann): The Killing: in cold blood The most important points: 1) The DVD set will be released on April 4 2) There will be a third series.
JK2006	Great analysis by Andrew Billen in today's (firewall protected)Times.
JK2006	Thanks for tipping us off about this 10 weeks ago DJ - delighted to hear Series 2 is as good as Series 1 - it goes down in the King Chronicles as one of the best ever made.
DJones	Not a happy ending, just the opposite, a total desaster: the Larsen family is destroyed, Hartmann is reduced to being a puppet, Meyer is dead and Lund would have gone to prison, if she hadn't accept the deal. This is stuff is much too dark/complicated for US TV: Is Brix a good or a bad guy? At least he's calling back Lund (who will stay with the police but has to work somewhere in the country, far away from Copenhagen) as an adviser to solve some murders involving the military: The second series is just as good as the first one. The NYT had a story today about the US version: "The American version hews very closely to the original, with the same three-strand plot and with characters modeled on the Danish ones, said Joel Stillerman, AMC’s senior vice president for original programming, production and digital content. “We tried to embrace a lot of what we thought made it incredible, including the Nordic sensibility, the stoicism of Sarah Lund and the lack of that overtly frenetic behavior that you’re constantly seeing on American crime and police shows,” Mr. Stillerman said. “Instead of having a chase scene with a standard bunch of cop cars with their lights flashing, we have things that you’d be much more likely to see in a horror movie — a scary walk down a dark hallway with the right piece of music.”" A Series With Little Action and No Sex
JK2006	Only two things bother me - why has it taken since 2007 for British TV executives to show it to us and what on earth do US TV execs think is the point of copying it? The plot was only one small ingredient; it was the unique and superb way it was written, acted, directed, filmed and scored that made it so fabulous. None of which can be emulated.