The Killing on BBC4

[BetweenTheStaves]

I'm finding it very unmissable although we do watch it in two one-hour bite sized chunks.

So many red herrings...the latest being 'the man watching in the red overalls'....just wondered how that closing scene could be written in a book as so much was conveyed/implied visually...or at least we were supposed to think ''ah..hah'..it's him. But I think we will find out that he is another red herring. My take is that Nanna went back to the flat to retrieve her passport (which we know is a fact) but then saw something or someone or caught someone inflagrante delecto....maybe Bremer and Brix in a gay liaison...that she had to be killed. Nothing personal against her per se...more a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. So this means that it has to be someone with access to the flat...which brings us back to Troels and his crowd. Not Troels...he has an alibi...Morten? And what is the significance of Theiss's library card being found near the scene in Episode One? Or the frantic searching he made for a map...which turned up on top of Nanna's coffin but which he then made no attempt to retrieve...curious.

But then, again, she could have been murdered by aliens.

[Angle]

Within 120 minutes it will all be over.

[Angle]

correction

Heavens! I was wrong; ahead of myself at almost the end of what has not been a good day.

We have to wait another week before The Killing Ends, I am afraid.

What an action-packed two hours we have just had; almost too much to bear.

Oh, the tension.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

my thoughts exactly Angle; especially after watching a dire England performance in the Six Nations ......

...i shall have to watch last night's episodes again just to make sure i have even a basic grasp of what's what and who' who ... nothing is at all resoved!

[Mobson7]

Perhaps she suffers from the opposite of SAD! or the gene of Detective's namely the equivalent of CIPA or HSAN which are rare neurological disorders where there is a autonomic dysfunction where she feels no danger or thought of pain!

[Mobson7]

Yes, I've noticed that! She seems to have turned into a zombie like creature with messy hair and a gaping open mouth as well!

[Mobson7]

Well AMC in the States have made The Killing in 13 episodes...yes the yanks version will begin broadcasting on Sunday 3rd April and guess what Lund has become Linden complete with her own fair isle jumper!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1729484/

[johnb]

Well, it has come to an end though it doesn't feel like a conclusion. It feels more as though I am waiting for the next episode.

Those tantalising loose ends: Brix's offer to Lund and whatever it was that Hartman discovered and so distressed him (only to have Brix brush off his telephone call).

[DracoM]

New series of The Killing coming olater in the year. Hope they take up that call from Hartmann. Brix knows more than he is letting on. and that prosecutor!

Also another series of the brilliant French noir 'Spiral'

[kernelbogey]

I watched the whole thing on iPlayer as I don't have a television. (No spoilers, please - others may be catching up in like manner.) I found it utterly gripping and am considering proposing to Sophie Grabol (sorry Kaerste, can't do Danish orthography here). Despite the twists and turns and red herrings (they do a lot of herring in Dk) I was tranfixed.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...yep transfixed to the very end .... and the taster for II was infuriatingly enticing ...

leaves the map and library tickets with Theis eh ... and Frevert the taxi driving removal man knew more than was shown or said, and where does the City Hall connection go ..... and Brix is one of the most sinister apparatchiks to make it on the tv screen .... he does silence with such an ominous restraint ...

have to get by with Wake the Dead for now [an interesting take on Oedipus in the last twofer]

[Mobson7]

New series of The Killing coming olater in the year. Hope they take up that call from Hartmann. Brix knows more than he is letting on. and that prosecutor!

Also another series of the brilliant French noir 'Spiral'

Well no, firstly The Killing II (Forbrydelsen II) is shorter by 10 episodes, has none of the usual suspects except Brix and Lund of course. It concerns: a series of murders on soldiers; Afghanistan; and political scandal...Oh and just how many times will Lund be suspended in this series....

[antongould]

I too found the whole thing wonderful but we were very sad when, in our opinion, one of the great detective duos i.e. Lund and Meyer was "broken up".

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

great detective duos? good lord they got nowt right for 18 episodes and even then ... can't post any more without spoiling it ....can we have a close date on spoilers so we can revisit the plot lines?

[antongould]

It was the chemistry man!