EPISODE
SEASON
The Killing - Season 1 [Audio: French]
The series begins with what is supposed to be her last day at work. Detective Sarah Linden is summoned to the scene of violent crime after finding a women's blood jacket in a park. There is no body in hand. The police also found an ATM card named Stan Larsen. Sarah and her replacement, Stephen Holder, follow-up When they learned that 17-year-old Larsen's daughter did not spend the weekend at a friend's house and was not seen since Friday night, she doubted the worst.
29 December 1969, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
23 August 1971, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
4 April 1978, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
16 February 1978, Houston, Texas, USA
November 19, 2015
From the start of the pilot episode, we can see that The Killing is no ordinary crime drama.
April 03, 2011
It's more televised crime novel than traditional TV cop show.
April 03, 2011
The prologue practically functions as a schematic diagram of all the police procedurals - with their virtuous investigators and their quasi-necrophiliac tone - that The Killing seems to deconstruct and reassemble on a higher plain.
April 03, 2011
The Killing is your basic Law & Order murder mystery - the step-by-step investigation, the list of perps that expands with each new piece of evidence, the "aha!'' and "really?'' twists.
April 03, 2011
The Killing marks another bull's-eye for AMC in presenting complex, literate, well-crafted television.
April 03, 2011
The Killing is the least prepossessing, an eerily quiet, yet compelling and complex, tale of the way the murder of a teenager affects the lives of many people.
April 03, 2011
The Killing is emotionally spare and atmospherically dank.
November 19, 2015
The fact that The Killing is nothing like other crime dramas on American television is a welcome relief. After all, between multi-city franchises and tired formulas, they are beginning to blend woefully together.
April 03, 2011
The disparate detectives of The Killing may have their own means and methods of getting to the bottom of this. But the overall air of believability is palpable from the start. All the better for taking a deep breath and diving right in.
April 03, 2011
The best reason for tuning in to The Killing is that it might re-sensitize those who've seen one too many episodes of Criminal Minds - or overdosed on local news.

