The Killing wrapped up season one on Sunday night with “Orpheus Descending”, a surprisingly effective hour of television that despite its well-placed twist still managed to piss me off and leave me feeling used like a cheap Beau Soleil call girl.
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By the closing moments of “Beau Soleil” it looks like Linden and Holder might have their killer, but if we’ve learned one thing on AMC’s The Killing it’s that nothing can be assumed.

I said last week that if Rosie turned out to be a hooker on the sly then I was going to toss my television out the window. Thankfully my house is one level so the set was not damaged too badly in the fall. Yes folks, the poor waterlogged Rosie Larsen appears to have been moonlighting as a call girl for a “social introduction service” run out of that stuffy Indian casino. The service is called Beau Soleil and to make things even more interesting Rosie’s saucy aunt Terry works there too which provided a nice nod back to that weird moment when Terry ran into a rich man who gave her the cold shoulder. Chances are he had hired her at one time or another. So why was Rosie dumping all her hard-earned cash into aunt Terry’s account instead of her own? Sounds like Terry was helping keep Rosie’s secret, which won’t sit so well with Mitch.

For the moment Mitch Larsen (Michelle Forbes) has other things to worry about than her sister’s loose morals. Mitch has decided to let Stan (Brent Sexton) rot in jail since he spent all the savings account without telling her. In her fury she also fires Belko (Brendan Sexton) for being creepy and gets into a fight with Terry (Jaime Anne Allman) about her parenting skills. How silly is she going to feel when she finds out that money went to buy them a new house?

Linden (Mireille Enos) and Holder (Joel Kinnaman) zero in on Rosie’s connection to One-Eyed Jacks…I mean Beau Soleil…and tracks down the man who hosts the website where they determine the email address of a man named Orpheus who threatened another one of the girls with drowning. Linden quickly sends the mysterious Orpheus an “I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER” email and waits for a reply that never comes while Holder questions the girl. Linden eventually heads out to question Councilman Richmond (Billy Campbell) again about the friends he keeps and puts one of the junior detectives on watch at her pc.

The final few minutes of this episode were wonderful. The build up of Linden’s partner back at the station sending the emails and the sound of them arriving in…SPOILER…Councilman Richmond’s inbox as she creeps around the house was classic. But the reveal that Richmond was Orpheus didn’t come as a big shock. I mean there aren’t that many people left to point a finger at, and the fact that all the red arrows point at Darren Richmond now means that he most likely didn’t do it. If he did, then I have no idea what season two would be about. If he didn’t, then who did? Terry? I don’t think so, but it’s possible. Belko? Not so much. Jaime? Nah. How about Gwen? Ding ding ding we have a winner. My money is on Gwen because she has a motive and they’ve done a fine job of diverting away from her all season.

If Richmond does turn out to be the killer I’ll eat my shoe and do Dougie on the roof of the Georgia Dome. I just don’t see it. They have picked up this snow globe of rain and mood and shaken it so many times that honestly anything is possible at this point. I just want to ride it out and see where the raindrops fall this time.

The season finale of The Killing airs next Sunday at 10pm on AMC. Tune in because you know you want to know how this plays out.

Season one of The Killing is just 2 hours away from the “shocking finale” and the writers felt like this would be the perfect time to stop everything dead and spend a full hour with Linden (Mireille Enos) and Holder (Joel Kinnaman) driving around in a car. Don’t get me wrong, it was compelling to watch and superbly acted, but I have to ask why now? Why didn’t they do this back on day 4 or 5 when some background into these two would have been helpful? There is still no word on whether a second season has been ordered and I am starting to understand why.
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For a show that moves about as fast as my grandmother after a dose of her nerve pills The Killing is doing an impressive job of keeping me interested. The full title of this week’s episode is “I’ll Let You Know When I Get There” which sounds like they are in no hurry to reveal more secrets. It is day ten in the hunt for Rosie Larsen’s killer and after a few red herrings and dead ends it looks like Linden and Holder might be getting somewhere. But at what cost?
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If you thought you knew who killed Rosie Larsen then you can just forget it. This week’s episode of The Killing pulled the rug out from just about everything we’ve learned about the people involved in this case. Detective Linden and Holder are back at square one. Spoilers ahead.
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The net was cast considerably wider in the search for Rosie Larsen’s killer on The Killing this week. Work commitments delayed this review a bit but this episode was well worth the wait. The pace picked up a bit and we learned a lot about the people at the center of this case. Some of what we learned was surprising and some of it wasn’t. We also saw some relationships start to break down, which always makes for good television.
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