'The Killing II' finally died the death!

Look, I'm sorry, OK?  Really, really sorry!  I know I urged you all to forget your Saturday night parties or your attempts to seduce your lovers; I even urged you to give up holiday time unless there was a TV nearby on which you could watch The Killing II.  My bad!  If it's any consolation I, too, gave up my Saturday nights, although, alas, there were no outstanding lovers to seduce, in order to watch it because, as I told you, the first series was simply outstanding.  Well, to be absolutely honest, as the first eight episodes disappeared into a story line of which Hans Christian Anderson would have been proud, I did skip the final two episodes and have only just finished watching them now via my 'all-singing-dancing-do-flicker-thingie' that 'Rupe' sent me - thanks, mate!  (See, I can do Australian.)  I wish I hadn't bothered.

Well, what can I say?  How could such a brilliant first series then turn into such an absolute stinker in the second series?  Absurdity piled upon nonsense - thank God it was only ten episodes because more than that would have constituted cruel and unusal punishment.  Perhaps its most bizarre scenes were watching the 'heroine', Sarah Lund, wandering about in the middle of Afghanistan in a jeep with only two men accompanying her.  I should think that any Afghan vets watching probabaly gave themselves serious injuries through laughing too hard.  The political story line in the first series just about worked because the politicians concerned were at local government level but in the second series they were supposed to be the actual cabinet of the government of Denmark, all of whom were absolutely and totally unbelievable.  The so-called 'hero', a fat young man given, rather improbably judging by his appearance, the job of Minister of Justice, carried on like the idealistic warrior he was supposed to be, fighting for justice right up almost to the very end - when suddenly he caved in and joined the nasties!

At the very end, Sarah Lund emptied her gun into the baddie and I was sort of hoping that she would then go on a rampage and shoot the writer, the director, and all the idiot producers who permitted this total tosh to be filmed.  "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" and it is not a million miles from the headquarters of Danish TV!

 

Comments

[Martin]

It doesn't bode well for the 3rd series!

[David Duff]

I know, Martin, but I will keep my fingers crossed. I gather in the next one Lund gets involved with the finance sector. I just hope they know a bit more about city dealers than they did about the army.

[dearieme]

Even Downton Abbey went downhill in the second series. Still, the papers say that the Christmas Special is good stuff. Though, apart from Morecambe and Wise, I don't think I've ever seen a decent Christmas Special.

[Martin]

Hi David. I was very disappointed by the second series of The Killing which I watched after having seen the American version of the first series and all the critics saying how superior the Danish version was. Like you mention, some of the Army scenes stretched credibility and I felt that the last 2 episodes, especially the going to Afghanistan escapade, cheated me of 10 hours of my life. I thought that the actual ending was a complete farce, done in a poor B movie style, and could see it coming a mile off. I'll still watch the 3rd series though!!

[David Duff]

I just couldn't get on with 'Downton Abbey', DM, not a patch on 'Upstairs Downstairs' but I admit I am relying on my memory (oh dear!) Anyway, I shall be out-voted this Christmas, just like every Christmas, really.

Martin, welcome to D&N. Yes, it was a huge disappointment but, like you, I will be watching series III, or at least, the first few episodes.

[Hugin]

I love the very end. No more to say.

[David Duff]

Oh, come on, Hugin, is that irony or did I miss something?