{"id":5696,"date":"2012-11-10T14:13:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T19:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2012-11-10T14:13:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T19:13:25","slug":"a-weaker-mystique-for-denmark%e2%80%99s-the-killing-forbrydelsen-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5696","title":{"rendered":"A Weaker Mystique for Denmark\u2019s The Killing \/ Forbrydelsen, Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here\u2019s something unique to Europe: the final season of The Killing <\/strong>\/ Forbrydelsen<\/strong> was shot this year, is airing now on the BBC, and on December 17 you\u2019ll be able to buy it on DVD\u00a0 & Blu. Meanwhile, in North America, the original Danish series is unavailable in spite of AMC having cancelled their U.S. remake. Inevitably the Danish series will have to come our way, but here\u2019s a case where the failure of an American variant has resulted in an interminable delay to deliver the real goods.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the reasons why a Region-free player is almost de rigeur for any film and TV connoisseur; the sheer wealth of material available overseas (if not film culture) remains high, while \u00a0studios on this side of the pond are still unsure what titles and series merit release on physical media. When The Killing<\/strong>\u2019s Blu-ray 3-season pack drops down to a more reasonable level (or perhaps is deep discounted on Black Friday), I\u2019ll snap it up, because it\u2019s a series I wanna own and watch again and again \u2013 even the dud that is Season 2.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve uploaded a nit-picky review<\/a> [M<\/a>] of Season 2′s failings, which make it meh rather than a disaster. Sort of like what happened with The Killing<\/strong>\u2019s older American cousins \u2013 Murder OneB <\/strong>(1995-1996), and Twin Peaks<\/strong> (1990).<\/p>\n

In other news, apparently the new James Bond film, Skyfall<\/strong>, is good, which is good, since The Quantum of Solace<\/a> <\/strong>was not. The TIFF Bell Lightbox<\/a>\u2019 ongoing salute to things Bondian includes an exhibit, a few guest speakers, and a full retro of the films, although the Thunderball <\/strong>remake\u00a0Never Say Never Again<\/strong> and the 1967 spoof Casino Royale<\/a> <\/strong>are MIA<\/strong>. I regard their omissions as mistakes. NSNA is sure better than Octopussy<\/strong> and A View to a Kill<\/strong>, and the \u201967 Casino Royale<\/strong>, while an abomination, is also a guilty pleasure, and deserves a special screening. One suspects the Broccolis nixed their inclusion in the 007 tour package to safeguard the purity of the franchise.<\/p>\n

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One qualm: why is Skyfall<\/strong>\u2019s poster so awful? Like, wasn\u2019t the free-falling gun-toting actor-over-title logo template shelved a few years ago?<\/p>\n

The subject that was parodied is now a graphic parody of itself.<\/p>\n

Ahem:<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com <\/strong>( Main Site<\/a> \/ Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nit-picky review of the issues faced by the writers of The Killing \/ Forbrydelsen: Season 2 when the producers cut the episode run from 20 to 10, and perhaps waited too long for a follow-up season + quick thoughts on that familiar-looking Skyfall poster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1571,1620,1570,4212],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1tS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}