There’s probably a generation of TV viewers out there who, like me, are still waiting for a show to redeem the unfulfilled promise of ‘Twin Peaks.’ That show’s likely never to come, but AMC’s new series ‘The Killing’ has a chance of going a little way of erasing the bitter taste of the memory of that earlier venture.
The first episode of Twin Peaks is still as mesmerizing and memorable as any, thanks to Grace Zabriskie and that haunting Angelo Badalementi score. But then all of that zaniness – cherry pie and the dancing dwarf and the woman with the log and so on and so forth – followed, and after a season of that ended with no real answers (if I’m remembering correctly) to “Who Killed Laura Palmer,” it wore out its welcome.
Comparisons to Twin Peaks have surrounded AMC’s new series, ‘The Killing,’ and while the show bears some cultivated similarities – it starts off with a murder of a teenage girl, the AMC ads ask, “Who Killed Rosie Larsen?” – my guess is that the resemblance isn’t likely to stick around for very long. All the better. It feels like it’s going to be a much more straightforward procedural, done in a slow methodical style; with an amazingly compelling Mireille Enos at its center, that makes one hopeful.
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