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Author:  David [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:47 am ]
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Anyone else watching this?

I highly enjoyed the first episode. Twin Peaks crossed with The Wire. It should be a riveting, atmospheric series.
Author:  trixster [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:27 pm ]
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It's good, but it feels like they're just going through the motions so far. I've yet to see anything more intriguing or compelling than what Twin Peaks gave us 20 years ago.
Author:  Johnny Dollar [ Fri May 27, 2011 10:16 am ]
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It started off soooooo good, but it completely sucks now. It's pretty embarrassing for AMC, actually.
Author:  _axiom [ Fri May 27, 2011 3:44 pm ]
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Johnny Dollar wrote:
It started off soooooo good, but it completely sucks now. It's pretty embarrassing for AMC, actually.

I'm waiting for the season to finish and then I'll watch it all at once.
Author:  David [ Fri May 27, 2011 8:20 pm ]
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I'm still enjoying it. It has contrivances, to be sure, and it's all gone a bit too Mystic River, but...I'm still enjoying it, lol. Good acting, great atmosphere, involving. Certainly not an embarrassment for AMC. Absurd hyperbole courtesy of Johnny Dollar.
Author:  trixster [ Fri May 27, 2011 9:09 pm ]
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Johnny Dollar is correct, except for the "it started off soooooo good" part.
Author:  Bluebomb [ Sat May 28, 2011 4:57 am ]
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Forbrydelsen is way better.

Watched the first episode of this and stopped there. I didn't like most of the changes they made to the plot.
Author:  thompsoncory [ Tue May 31, 2011 5:18 pm ]
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I still like it. The glacial pace does get annoying though.
Author:  trixster [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:17 am ]
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What a horrible, bullshit ending. I surely will not be watching next season.
Author:  David [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:15 am ]
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I'm still a big fan of this series. The acting and atmosphere is just too good. I admit, though, the cliffhanger was quite frustrating. To resolve almost nothing after thirteen episodes, most with a very deliberate pace, is half ballsy, half maddening. I didn't expect or want the Rosie Larsen case to be completely solved and forgotten by the final frame--it would have been nice to see certain suspicions and tensions carry over--but damn. This was a total Empire Strikes Back ending, with everything and everyone reaching their darkest point right as it ends.

I will return for season 2.
Author:  trixster [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:30 am ]
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Of course you will.
Author:  David [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:39 am ]
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Uh...all right.
Author:  thompsoncory [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:07 am ]
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I seriously don't know if I will be. The ending was terrible and insulting to viewers who have been following the show for the entire season. I can understand the massive outcry over the finale.
Author:  Christian [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:39 am ]
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Good premiere, but it all went downhill. Glad to know the finale didn't veer off that territory.

Then I found out this shit is from one of the writers of Cold Case. Figures.
Author:  David [ Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:49 am ]
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Season (series?) finale aired last night. The episode revealed Rosie's murderer(s). I was very satisfied. A logical, suspenseful, well-constructed, and in the end tender episode of answers and closure. This series has its imperfections, but has been a success overall, in my estimation at least. Great, rain-swept atmosphere. A fresh, strange, and winning chemistry between the partners. A nuanced portrayal of a family's grief and healing.

I know it now exists outside the small sandbox of what is cool and vital according to the "Community is the greatest artistic achievement since Aristotle penned Poetics, and I will rape you hard if you disagree" determiners of television taste, but I still feel the cast and crew should be proud of their flawed, compelling, and worthy accomplishment.
Author:  mdana [ Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:16 pm ]
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David wrote:
Season (series?) finale aired last night. The episode revealed Rosie's murderer(s). I was very satisfied. A logical, suspenseful, well-constructed, and in the end tender episode of answers and closure. This series has its imperfections, but has been a success overall, in my estimation at least. Great, rain-swept atmosphere. A fresh, strange, and winning chemistry between the partners. A nuanced portrayal of a family's grief and healing.

I know it now exists outside the small sandbox of what is cool and vital according to the "Community is the greatest artistic achievement since Aristotle penned Poetics, and I will rape you hard if you disagree" determiners of television taste, but I still feel the cast and crew should be proud of their flawed, compelling, and worthy accomplishment.


Well stated, definitely one of the most rewarding television experiences I have enjoyed since the first two seasons of Skins (UK). I thought the series was "Lost" for a few episodes at the end of season 1 and the beginning of season 2. I need to go back and watch them and see how they hold up now that I know Sud knew what she was doing, when at the time I felt she was just trying to tread water. I was this ... close to deleting the last ten episodes after struggling through the first three. I just finished watching them back to back over the past two nights. What I almost missed. :tears:

The critical backlash this series suffered due to the ending of season 1 is dismaying. I wonder how much of it had to with Sud being a woman?

I am done with critics for both film and television for they only seem to be able to appreciate a narrow confine of what they are comfortable. Although I disagree with much of Armond White's analysis and critiques, I think his assertion of the pack mentality of criticism and the mores they uncritically accept and do not question as opposed to those mores they lash out instinctively is very insightful.

I have never seen a murder impact people like this is in any type of police procedural. Twin Peaks was close, but that series lost its way after an amazing first season. I have never seen female characters be allowed to make so many bad decisions as mothers as both Linden and Mitch and not be demonized and treated as 2 dimensional villians. This show dealt with the human and emotional costs of repressing the truth and the cost on individuals and society when problems when they first appear are not addressed. Many "innocent" people lose their lives and expontentially more are either shattered or are scarred for protecting an illusion of the truth. Even when a past wrong is corrected, there are no easy solutions, just another set of problems that need to be addressed. If a show that explores those and many other worthy emotions and ideas is not worth praising, then I don't know what is.
Author:  Jedi Master Carr [ Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:15 pm ]
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I think Game of Thrones being on the same timeslot really killed it.
Author:  David [ Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:40 pm ]
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This is so damn great this season. The storyline is more focused and suspenseful than ever before. Peter Sarsgaard is delivering the best and most enigmatic performance of his career. The Sarah/Holder chemistry remains fantastic.

I am so glad it returned. Screw the haters.
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