Lanky, chatty, and frank, Holder knows the streets, as a former undercover narcotics agent who got hooked on hard drugs. Her delayed departure becomes something of a season-long gag, as she and her teenaged son Jack (Liam James) repeatedly try and fail to catch a flight down south.Ĭontrasting Sarah's all-business style is her intended replacement Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman, who is Swedish, though you'd hardly know it), who becomes her partner. On her last day with the Seattle Police Department, she finds the body and is compelled and encouraged to see it through. Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) is the tight-lipped, workaholic veteran who is about to leave for Sonoma, California to marry and settle down. First and foremost, we get the perspective of the two homicide detectives assigned to the case.
The series approaches the crime on three fronts. The death of any teenaged girl is bound to draw some interest and the circumstances of Rosie's puzzling end are especially heinous: she is located locked in the trunk of a car buried in a lake, the victim of an unmistakably deliberate drowning. Where most procedural dramas open and close one or two cases in every hour of airtime, "The Killing" lives up to its title, by remaining fixed on just one lurid homicide mystery week in and week out.Ī few days after attending her high school's costumed Halloween dance, seventeen-year-old senior Rosie Larsen is found dead in the woods of Seattle.
But "The Walking Dead" is the most highly-rated show on cable and others have received varying amounts of buzz.Īdapted from the 2007 Danish TV series "Forbrydelsen" (literally "The Crime"), "The Killing" takes us deep into a single murder investigation. Not every new AMC series has enjoyed the same acclaim and reception as those two in fact, no other has. Then, "Mad Men" came and "Breaking Bad" followed, and suddenly AMC was in the same breath as HBO for providing some of the best original programming on television.
Six years ago, the channel was known for showing movies, many of which barely qualified as "American Movie Classics", chopped up and with commercials. Three single-sided, dual-layered discs (BD-50s) / Blue KeepcaseĪlso available on DVD ($39.98 SRP), Instant Video, Instant Video HDīuy The Killing: Season 1 from : Blu-ray ĪMC has demonstrated how quickly a cable network can change their identity. Subtitles: English for Hearing Impaired, Spanish, French Not Closed CaptionedĮxtras Not Subtitled or Captioned / Season 1 Airdates: ApJune 19, 2011īlu-ray Release Date: Ma/ Suggested Retail Price: $49.99 Running Time: 592 Minutes (13 episodes) / Rating: Not Rated (TV-14 on air)ġ.78:1 Widescreen / 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio (English) Notable Guest Stars: VJ Delos Reyes (Lyndon Johnson Rosales), Merrilyn Gann (Maryanne Thompson), Jarod Joseph (Muhammed Hamid), Jay Brazeau (Judge Russell Elliot), Alona Tal (Aleena Drizocki), Tahmoh Penikett (Greg Linden), Kevin McNulty (Gas Station Manager), Camille Sullivan (Meg Connell)
Michael Oakes), Callum Keith Rennie (Rick Felder), Ashley Johnson (Amber Ahmed), Colin Lawrence (Benjamin Abani), Katie Findlay (Rosie Larsen), Patrick Gilmore (Tom Drexler), Lee Garlington (Ruth Yitanes), Kacey Rohl (Sterling Fitch), Richard Harmon (Jasper Ames), Gharrett Patrick Paon (Kris Echols), Kerry Sandomirsky (Principal Meyers), Evan Bird (Tom Larsen), Seth Isaac Johnson (Denny Larsen), Claudia Ferri (Nicole Jackson), Don Thompson (Janek Kovarsky), Alan Dale (Senator Eaton), Patti Allan (Bev Royce), Peter Bryant (Imam Gelabi), Barclay Hope (Thomas Ames), Brian Markinson (Gil) Recurring Characters: Brandon Jay McLaren (Bennet Ahmed), Tom Butler (Mayor Lesley Adams), Liam James (Jack Linden), Garry Chalk (Lt. Regular Cast: Mireille Enos (Sarah Linden), Billy Campbell (Darren Richmond), Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder), Michelle Forbes (Mitch Larsen), Brent Sexton (Stan Larsen), Kristin Lehman (Gwen Eaton), Eric Ladin (Jamie Wright), Brendan Sexton III (Belko Royce), Jamie Anne Allman (Terry Marek), Annie Corley (Regi Darnell) Developer: Veena Sud / Producers: Søren Sveistrup, Piv Bernth, Ingolf Gabold, Mikkel Bondesen, Veena Sud (executive) Aaron Zelman (consulting) Jeremy Doner, Kristen Campo, Craig Forrest, Shana Fischer Huber (co-producers) Ron French (producer) Dawn Prestwich, Nicole Yorkin (co-executive)ĭirectors: Ed Bianchi, Agnieszka Holland, Patty Jenkins, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Jennifer Getzinger, Phil Abraham, Dan Attias, Brad Anderson, Nicole Kassell, Keith Gordon / Writers: Veena Sud, Jeremy Doner, Dawn Prestwich, Nicole Yorkin, Soo Hugh, Nic Pizzolatto, Dan Nowak, Aaron Zelman, Linda Burstyn