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Oh wow.
I didn’t think I would be so affected by the pilot of the Killing but here I am. The story propels everything forward but it’s Linden who kept me engaged, the moment she saw the pink bike there was a sense of the inevitable, the way the parents kept moving, trying to hold on to a stubborn sense of hope that their daughter was okay.
Even though I felt the parents also had the same sinking feeling that everything is not okay.
And then, Linden, who at several points kept telling anyone who would stop to listen that she has to go, it was her last day as a cop but in the end, it’s Linden who kept herself there.
She was trying to leave before the case really got its hooks into her, and when they finally got the trunk of the car open and revealed the body, Linden looked resigned. And, gah, the moment when her father knew without even seeing the body, knew it was his baby girl and how his anguished grief carried over through the phone to his, wife and then her reaction.
Amazing.
This was an excellent pilot and it really set things up, hooking you in just enough to keep you wanting. This was so character focused and with a focus on Linden, and her reactions, her knowledge earned through the years, and finally the tired resignation knowing that she was right. And, inevitably how she can’t, won’t leave because.
And, of course, of course, Patty Jenkins directed this. Even though Diana and Linden are different from each other there’s something about how this played out that felt similar to Diana choosing to stay and help with Linden choosing to stay and find the missing daughter even though they were years apart in the making.
Up next in the Patty Jenkins project: her Arrested Development episodes!
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I didn’t think I would be so affected by the pilot of the Killing but here I am. The story propels everything forward but it’s Linden who kept me engaged, the moment she saw the pink bike there was a sense of the inevitable, the way the parents kept moving, trying to hold on to a stubborn sense of hope that their daughter was okay.
Even though I felt the parents also had the same sinking feeling that everything is not okay.
And then, Linden, who at several points kept telling anyone who would stop to listen that she has to go, it was her last day as a cop but in the end, it’s Linden who kept herself there.
She was trying to leave before the case really got its hooks into her, and when they finally got the trunk of the car open and revealed the body, Linden looked resigned. And, gah, the moment when her father knew without even seeing the body, knew it was his baby girl and how his anguished grief carried over through the phone to his, wife and then her reaction.
Amazing.
This was an excellent pilot and it really set things up, hooking you in just enough to keep you wanting. This was so character focused and with a focus on Linden, and her reactions, her knowledge earned through the years, and finally the tired resignation knowing that she was right. And, inevitably how she can’t, won’t leave because.
And, of course, of course, Patty Jenkins directed this. Even though Diana and Linden are different from each other there’s something about how this played out that felt similar to Diana choosing to stay and help with Linden choosing to stay and find the missing daughter even though they were years apart in the making.
Up next in the Patty Jenkins project: her Arrested Development episodes!
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