The Killing has never been a "happy endings" kind of show: The series, which premiered on AMC in 2010, is relentlessly bleak, so rainy and depressing that it makes The Leftovers look optimistic. But while the question of how showrunner Veena Sud should have ended The Killing isn't easily answered, there's no doubt about where she went wrong - giving Linden and her partner Holder (Joel Kinnaman) a romantic happily ever after. A show as complicated as The Killing, revived for a six-episode final season on Netflix, is undeniably tough to wrap up, particularly given that Season 3 ended with the protagonist, Detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos), murdering Pied Piper serial killer James Skinner (Elias Koteas) in cold blood. It's often easier to say how TV series shouldn't end than how they should.
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