This is an engaging, no-frills entertainment that still fails to justify its reason for being.
The film never surrenders to the abandon of its action, and as such never feels like it shifts out of first gear.
True Detective’s first season had a methodical and measured approach to tracking its villain, but this season doesn’t know when to stop changing things up.
This is an irritating table-setting episode in which the characters constantly explain how the pieces fit together.
Everything you need to know about the inconsistencies of the show can be summed up by the two standoffs that occur in this episode.
All the central characters have moments here in which they, for all intents and purposes, might well be dead.
The home-video format, which encourages binge viewing, could serve to accentuate the nagging hollowness of the show’s busy-body plotting.
The Killing imports the Euro policier for Barnes & Noble shoppers.