By now, you have probably Netflix-binged The Killing‘s final season — and you no doubt have questions of the burning and nagging variety. ( If you’re still making your way through the six-episode swan song, bookmark this story and return when you are finished.) Well, we had questions too — loads of them. About that final scene. About the rumored Holder- Linden kiss. About the surprise cameo. About a possible fifth season. And, after talking to The Killing‘s puppet master Veena Sud, we now have answers. RELATED 2014 Cable Renewal Scorecard: What’s Cancelled? What’s Coming Back? What’s on the Bubble? TVLINE | Was it always your intention for Linden and Holder to pair up romantically in the end? There were many different possibilities for how the story of Linden and Holder would end. That was one of them that we started to discuss at the beginning of this season, and that felt right. From the very beginning, I knew that her journey would have to end in a place of uneasy peace, where there were no good guys, there were no bad guys. There was a truce that she had to make with the world as it is versus the way she wanted the world to be. I always knew that finding that peace would be an inner journey at the very end for her. Holder says, “ It’s not ghosts in front of you, it’s not the dead.” And that revelation of who is standing in front of her and who’s in her life was something that I instinctually knew [ I wanted to get to] from the very beginning. I didn’t know it necessarily would be Holder. But seeing what’s in front of her and being present of that — the beauty of the world — was the place I wanted Sarah to get to at the end of her story. That’s one reason that visual of her standing in front of that beautiful cityscape in the main titles has been a recurring image over and over. It transforms over the course of the series. It’s a city of the dead that she’s looking.
Netflix The Killing’s fourth and final season might have closed on a decidedly divisive note on Aug. 1, but there is one element of the show that’s universally hailed: Tyler Ross’ haunting performance as Kyle Stansbury, the enigmatic military cadet suspected of murdering his family. As the character endured a never-ending barrage of torment — both at the hands of his classmates and in his own mind — the 25-year-old actor conjured up a blazing intensity, making it nearly impossible for Detective Linden ( Mireille Enos Detective Holder ( Joel Kinnaman and the audience to separate fact from fiction. In order to properly bring the deeply disturbed character to life, Ross entrenched himself in so much misery, it actually proved to be inescapable. “ I had nightmares and they don’t always go away,” Ross told to Buzz Feed of The Killing’s grueling two-and-a-half-month shoot, which still troubles him today. “ I tried to make it as real for myself in whatever way I needed to in order to portray it as true and honestly as I could, but I would go home and have terrifying nightmares about shooting people I knew — and that was even before I knew that I was the killer!” The revelation that a disassociated Stansbury actually gunned down his father ( Bruce Dawson mother ( Anne Marie De Luise and two sisters ( Avery Konrad and Peighton Brown) in cold blood came to light in the series’ final episode, and Ross only learned about it when The Killing creator Veena Sud delivered the script to the cast. “ I was in utter denial,” he said, still clearly struggling to completely rationalize his character’s role in the brutal murders. “ I really didn’t think it was going to be me, but I also really didn’t want it to be me. I fell in love with that 6-year-old [ Brown], who was the loveliest in real life too. I couldn’t understand why Kyle would kill her. It couldn’t be right. Veena explained to me.
The Killing S04 E01– S04 E06: Blood in the Water, Unraveling, The Good Soldier, Dream Baby Dream, Truth Asunder, and Eden The Killing, as has been noted pretty much everywhere at this point, is a show that just won't die. AMC canceled it after Season 2, only to reverse the decision and order a Season 3. Then, the network canceled it again. But, somehow or another, Fox Television Studios cut a nice deal to call up Holder and Linden for one final case—and this time around, they would solve it on Netflix. Given how Season 3 ended, it's a good thing that The Killing secured a fourth season, especially if you were frustrated by the cliffhanger nature of Linden killing Skinner. I was never much bothered by it, as I found the ending with Linden becoming a killer herself a rather bleak and thus appropriate development for this series to conclude with. While Season 4 ultimately decided that bleakly wasn't how it wanted to wrap things up (and, yes, we're going to discuss that epilogue, don't worry this Netflix version of The Killing was still The Killing. just with a few more swearwords that basic cable channels tend to avoid. It's a little odd to say The Killing was still The Killing, considering there weren't any production overhauls between Seasons 3 and 4. The cast, creator, and writers remained in place as the show shifted from AMC to Netflix, so why would it have changed? Even as it made some adjustments to accommodate the shortened six-episode run—namely, the jettisoning of a citywide concern like mayoral politics or homeless kids— The Killing's overall tendencies were still there, for better and for worse. Season 4's central case was thankfully not about a dead girl or a bunch of dead girls, which was something of a relief. Yes, the victims of the Stansbury massacre were mostly women, but for the most part, the focus wasn't on them as individuals. Instead, Linden and.
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