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AMC Networks has announced today that they will not be ordering a third season of the mystery crime drama The Killing. Many people who loved the first half of the first season ended up leaving the show after the Season 1 cliffhanger finale. We live in a post-Lost world where the television audiences are no longer willing to go through a season of red herrings ending on a huge swerve. They want answers and they don’t trust showrunners who pull out last minute curveballs. It’s disappointing that many viewers didn’t return for the second season of The Killing as it did what everyone feared it wouldn’t — it answered the questions, all of them.
The series was one of my favorite shows on television, but I’m kind of glad the series will end here. Right now the series works as one giant 26-episode movie. It’s a mini series which follows the investigation of one case: the murder of Seattle teenager Rosie Larsen. I highly reccomend that anyone who hasnt seen it check it out on home video.
I love the characters the series introduced and fell in love with the two lead stars Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman, both of whom you’ll be seeing on the big screen in the coming years. But I’m kind of happy that it ends here. I’m not sure I want to see another case, another mystery, another episode.
However, this might not be the end. The series is giving us one last twist, one last cliffhanger: Fox Television, the studio that produces The Killing has announced that they “will proceed to try to find another home for the show.” I can’t imagine the series is that expensive to produce, so it’s not out of the question for Netflix or another network (less likely considering the rating numbers) to bite. But I don’t imagine they will.
