AMC's The Killing. A series that rips apart America's Social underbelly.

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It also picks apart why the death penalty is so fucked up.

James Wolcott describes it perfectly.

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But it's very compelling and it's drilling deep into the American dysfunction of drugs, infrastructural decay, discarded children, the hustling for smaller and smaller sums in the lowest tier of the underground economy, the garbaging of the human body, the general blech happening below the underpass. (Converting the underclass into zombies is taking the easy narrative way out.) Given its forbidding load of foreboding, The Killing wouldn't work if it didn't cast a visual-aural spell, and I'm finding the trance strengthening as the season goes on. I also think Sarsgaard's performance--crafty, bluffing, nasty, anguished, at times defiantly opaque (as if the hood of his thoughts has been pulled down)--deserves way more attention and commendation than it's gotten.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2013/06/death-rides-in-the-back-seat

[Dr Hobbitstein]

1. I'm actually catching up on Season 3 right now...

Did you watch the first 2 seasons? It was based on a pretty awesome Danish TV series. Season 3 is a real departure. Great stuff.

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2. Yep...

Caught up completely. I think Season 3 is the best so far.

[erpowers]

4. Yeah

Season 3 has been really great. It is the best season so far. The story line has been very suspenseful.

[vi5]

3. This season has been great.

It's a shame so many wrote it off after a lackluster and dissapointing ending to season 1 and most all of season 2. It's really been compelling in season 3 and I'm glad I didn't decide to stop watching.

[gvstn]

6. I followed this pattern in your first sentence

But am enjoying season 3. It is better than the first from what I remember.

[kelliekat44]

5. I like it too. nt