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[krickets]

This week's episode of The Killing.

I actually don't know how to fully respond to this episode.

How.

This show?

HOW?

I just...

Yeah.

Sarsgaard completely broke me when he called "Get off of me," when it was clear that they were going to drag him away rather than let him see his son. Who was mere yards away. The delivery and the agony. I cannot even begin to explain what my insides were doing during that moment and all the moments that followed.

Veena Sud is a complete psychopath. Jesus christ.

I may have to fully react later because this? This is just nonsense.


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Comments

[deathisyourart.livejournal.com]

I was holding it in pretty well until Linden said to Ray "Adrian is right outside, he can hear you" and that was me DONE! I cried the rest of the way through the episode. I'm so mad that this aired too late for this Emmy cycle, and will probably be forgotten by the next; Peter Sarsgaard needs to be handed an Emmy, NOW! Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman wouldn't be too far behind him either.

[waltzmatildah.livejournal.com]

Peter Sarsgaard needs to be handed an Emmy, NOW! I agree SO MUCH with this sentiment. A friend and I are going to TIFF, and we've shortlisted Night Moves on the basis of his part in it alone!! And while I loved Mireille in seasons one and two, I honestly think she has been FREE OF FLAWS this season and absolutely needs a nom. next year.

[waltzmatildah.livejournal.com]

So.

I sent an email to catteo a couple of weeks ago theorising on the liklihood that the show would 'go there' with regard to hanging an innocent man. We remarked that the show had been pretty bold in its storytelling choices in seasons one and two, and that if ANY show could do it, it would be this one. BUT... I then tempered this with discussion about the potential political fall out in the real world (where capital punishment is SUCH a contentious issue) and whether the network would give Veena permission/the freedom to even consider it. In the end I kinda decided that I WANTED them to (sorry Ray!), but that they probably wouldn't be ALLOWED to. After all, it did seem to me like there were some definite shifts this year that it's possible to attribute to conditions of their being renewed (the more blatant shippiness and the pace of the storytelling in general, for example).

BUT THEN...

BUT THEN THEY WENT THERE!!!

THEY WENT THERE AND MORE!!! OMG!

Not only did they execute an innocent man (well, innocent of THIS crime anyway, and probably innocent of death sentence crimes in general too), they showed the execution being BOTCHED!! They included the visceral ~sounds of him freaking CHOKING TO DEATH at the end of the noose.

OMFG.

This show. There's really only one thing to 'say'



That's about as coherent as I can manage at the moment, despite the fact that 24 hours have passed since I watched it!!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Still emotionally drained. Even Sheldon can't help me now.

[oviedo.livejournal.com]

God I'm still not over it, just thinking about it makes me want to cry (and the fact that this could happen somewhere, is happening, god it's terrible).

When they showed the guards at the beginning rehearsing the execution I thought oh how clever, showing us what's going to happen without showing us the real thing. LITTLE DID I KNOW. I mean just the sounds and that one moment of Ray's POV when he's walking and the tunnel vision and Linden's fucking face at the end.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I will ever be over it. Maybe with time. But I don't know. That moment where Seward has accepted his death and is waiting for Adrian, with all that hope for what their meeting will be like, to have it so cruelly ripped away is probably the thing that will haunt me the most about this episode. I mean, his botched hanging is bad, but the Adrian thing is what killed me in this episode. I kept waiting for the phone to ring.

And his last lines. I loved them, but then I hated them. Because it was over.

[oviedo.livejournal.com]

And he's was right there ughhhhh. Did you read the interview Veena Sud and Peter Saasgard did about the episode? Peter says something along the lines that he's glad in a way Seward didn't get to see Adrian because what is there to say, there's nothing you can say. Which just kind of destroyed me again because it kind of echoes Seward's question to Linden about what to say and she says everything.

I re-watched the ep and it wasn't any easier even knowing what happens :(

[twilightthief.livejournal.com]

I just finished watching this week's The Killing...yeah...

I'm still crying.

This show, this effing show!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I know.

I know.


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