Seattle replaces Copenhagen as the setting but retains the key “sense ofįoreboding that comes from a creepily beautiful place,” Ms. Inspector Sarah Lund (played by Sofie Grabol), and for the way its.
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Like the Danish original, a hit in Britain as well, the series follows a stoic female detective through bleakly picturesque cityscapes. Danish crime drama The Killing has proved to be the pick of the bunch of the recent.
“We see the price of the loss of a life.” “It delves very deeply into one murder,” said Veena Sud, who adapted the series for AMC. The rest of the season tracks the ensuing investigationĪnd explores the crime’s effects on the detectives, on the victim’s family and on a politician with an uncertain link to the tragedy. The title homicide - spoiler alert: things end badly for one of the characters - comes early in the premiere. The way the political dimension has been threaded in and out of the the personal and private themes ought to stand as an object lesson to aspiring TV writers, to the extent that you could justifiably describe Killing III as a political drama, as much as a mystery or crime series. “The Killing,” a somber crime drama based on a popular Danish series of the same title, One angst-filled new offering to fill the void. In it, Lund is a passport controller in a small town, but then her former boss Lennart Brix calls in her help on a murder case. The next season of “Mad Men” may have been stalled in a contractual netherworld, but AMC has at least The Killing's second season will be screened on BBC4 in the autumn. Carole Segal/AMC Mireille Enos in “The Killing,” beginning Sunday on AMC.