Wow, she expresses my thoughts about the show EXACTLY! I gave up on it a couple of eps in, though, and only saw the last few eps cuz Bob was watching. And yelling at the tv. SO disappointing.

Wow, Mo is mad. Real mad. I'm impressed.

This paragraph

One thing. Just one thing. The one thing the finale needed to do was tell me who killed Rosie Larsen. That's all I think many fans wanted at this point. Most of the other things I'd once liked about the show -- the performances, the atmosphere, etc -- had dissipated in a haze of boring red herrings and sludgy misdirects, so I was hanging on for that one bit of resolution.

is me. But I am not as mad as she is about the finale. I'll probably watch at least the first episode of the next season. In which I am pretty sure that final twist will be revealed to be not quite as earth-shattering as it's made out to be. Yeah, Holden faked evidence but I wouldn't be surprised if that was just because he "knows" Richmond is guilty. That seems totally in character.

What made me the most frutrated about the finale was that they had that car impounded for almost two weeks and no one looked checked the mileage and fuel tank against the log? That's just sloppy.

Well, the bit about the car - it all ties into the mystery of why they have only two cops on a really high profile case.

I love how mad Mo is.

True. Part of me just assumed that that was just all we were seeing not all that was happening, that other cops were canvassing and whatnot offscreen.

I also love how mad she is. It's a beautiful thing.

I had a dream about Justified. Ava was dead, Raylan got in trouble at work and was no longer a Marshal, had a gang, and the subtext between him and Boyd was TEXT as they made out all over the place inbetween commercial breaks.

ha! I love it.

"The Killing" showrunner responds to the backlash:

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I am eh about that article. But I am amused that I misread the title, "'The Killing' Showrunner Responds to Finale Backlash: 'I Don't Want to Be Kinda Liked'" as "I Kinda Don't Want to Be Liked" and it made sense to me.

Honestly, I like the "it's a journey with complicated, flawed and interesting characters" shows more than a straight procedural. My issue with "The Killing" was that every ep felt like they were doing a procedural with a new bad guy and the ending was a cliffhanger every time showing that this ep's bad guy wasn't the bad guy and now it was someone new. For one ep. It's not nonformulaic, it's just a different format and one that apparently bugs me after a few eps.

I am more irritated by her answers in that interview than I was by the finale.