This was a program that often presented itself as one where character came first; the conclusion to season 4 left little doubt that simply was not the case. With just six episodes to wrap up what was essentially the story of Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder , The Killing puzzlingly inserted another overwrought homicide storyline to compete with the potentially engaging though not at all original idea of two detectives attempting to get away with the unlawful killing of a lawman, who was himself a killer.
So, while it's hard to imagine anyone wanted to watch Venna Sud's Low Winter Sun , Linden and Holder are not Agnew and Geddes; there's at least something behind them that makes you want to care about them.
And something to that effect had begun to germinate around the cover-up of Skinner's execution, before Col. Rayne yes, in a series notorious for its stylistic misrepresentation of how much it actually rains in Seattle, a character was given the surname Rayne and her killer cadets came in like a cloud of locusts to consume what little storytelling crop this series had to offer.
And while it's understandable that a performer as well regarded as Joan Allen would lend some credibility to the final season of a show running low on such standing, even the combined efforts of Allen, Enos, and Kinnaman were unable to overcome the inanity of what was essentially the season's A-plot. For starters, this is , how are television shows still using amnesia temporary or otherwise as a plot device?
He pauses in disbelief as he sees Linden has returned. She gets out of her car, he walks nearer, they both let hopeful smiles spread across their faces, and… cut to black.
I have to say, the chemistry was always there, but the flash forward to the open-ended possibility of romance was… unexpected.
But do I want to see that show? What made their connection compelling was the polarity at work—their most excellent selves and their most flawed selves, grappling and shifting to accommodate one other. Oh hell, I suppose Seattle has to be sunny sometimes, too. Take it away, Jane Siberry. Home Article The Killing series finale recap: 'Eden'. The Killing series finale recap: 'Eden'.
Save FB Tweet More. Credit: Netflix. The Killing. TV Show. NEXT: And now for the throwback portion of the finale…. Episode Recaps Image. The Killing Recap. The Killing Finale. The Killing Well, we had questions too — loads of them. About that final scene. About the rumored Holder-Linden kiss. About the surprise cameo. About a possible fifth season. There were many different possibilities for how the story of Linden and Holder would end.
That was one of them that we started to discuss at the beginning of this season, and that felt right. From the very beginning, I knew that her journey would have to end in a place of uneasy peace, where there were no good guys, there were no bad guys.
There was a truce that she had to make with the world as it is versus the way she wanted the world to be. I always knew that finding that peace would be an inner journey at the very end for her. It transforms over the course of the series. Finding the truth of what is in her life, and not running away… Linden is a runner. She runs away from everything in search of a better life. And she says that to Holder. And you are home. You are my best friend. From a plot perspective, it just doesn't make sense.
Prior to this final scene, Linden and Holder shared a single almost-kiss in the Season 3 episode "Reckoning. For much of Season 4, Holder was committed to his lawyer girlfriend Caroline Jewel Staite , and while their relationship didn't necessarily reflect an unbreakable bond, it's still awfully convenient that Holder is single when Linden returns, as explained by an offhand line to his daughter.
The emotional connection between these two characters has always been clear: Linden and Holder represent one of TV's best and most complex duos. But the decision to let them ride off into the sunset together is nonsensical, not an obvious end point for the plot but rather a cheap way to end a somber, hopeless series with a smile.
And therein lies the bigger problem: While the ending is strange from a plot perspective, it's more flagrant for being tonally inconsistent with the series as a whole. The Killing is as close to nihilism as TV gets: It's not there to offer hope for mankind or even for its characters. As sad as it would be to see Linden or Holder locked up, it would at least be in line with the futility of their attempts to do the right thing. Even if the series had ended with Linden leaving Seattle after Richmond's cover-up of her crime, that would have reflected and paid off the government corruption that dominated much of the first two seasons.
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