The Killing: Unfinished Finale?
By Clare Toohey
June 20, 2011We’ve been talking about The Killing. After last night’s finale, we were also hearing about it! Suffice it to say, fans of the show were tweaked.
We’ve been talking about The Killing. After last night’s finale, we were also hearing about it! Suffice it to say, fans of the show were tweaked.
Benedict Cumberbatch, appreciated here most effusively for his role in the BBC’s new Sherlock (season 2 currently in production, to air in the UK in August), will also appear this year as Peter Guillam in the film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, based on John Le Carré ’s espionage novel of the same name. In the…
AMC’s hit series The Killing has been renewed for a second season of 13 episodes, but if you haven’t caught it yet, for a limited time, you can watch the previous season’s episodes at AMC’s website. Prepare yourself and make your own guess as to “Who Killed Rosie Larsen?” The season finale is this Sunday!…
(Funny flash Advice from a Spy on Home Security at Hulu) According to Michael Westen of USA’s Burn Notice , whose new season premieres June 23rd, the safest place for your valuables is a structural cache requiring a jackhammer and union card to access in the first place. The freezer is no good for storing…
In her book, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, photographer Corrine Botz has carefully documented and commented upon 18 amazing miniature crime scenes that resided in the Baltimore Medical Examiner’s office. These educational tools were painstakingly assembled by Frances Glessner Lee in the 1940s and 50s using the details of real homicides, suicides, and accidental…
The VF Daily blog at Vanity Fair has a pithy summary by Christopher Tennant of the candidates for the title of “Next Stieg Larsson,” a creeping phrase against which crime fans have had to innoculate ourselves this year. (See Leslie Elman’s terrific article on Camilla Lackberg, vis-a-vis being the NSL, and related items under the…
Just saw this from a newsletter link from Sisters in Crime (thanks, gals!) It’s a very funny lesson in “British Justice” from the folks at BBC America, who want us not to be concerned that the imported Law & Order: UK might be too foreign. Watch this crash course— you’re ready for your A-levels!
Actor James Arness, who played U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon, 6-foot, 7-inches of don’t-mess-with-Miss-Kitty on Gunsmoke, passed away this week at 88. Based on a popular, earlier radio program of the same name, Gunsmoke is the longest running dramatic TV series in history, and it’s still broadcast and online at TVLand. Arness has the distinction of…
Via Steven Zeitchik and the L.A. Times blog 24 Frames: “Was it leaked from a European theater or stealthily put there by Sony? Whatever your conspiracy theory, the source is perhaps less important than the content of this so-called ”feel-bad“ Christmas movie, all of which comes at us fast, gritty and stylish…[There’s a] blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nudity…
What could possibly be nefarious about such delicious-looking strawberry cake? Well, this delight has the dubious distinction of having been chosen by the D.C. Sniper, spree killer John Allen Muhammed, as the dessert of his last meal (entree: chicken with red sauce), as documented by the extremely specific Dead Man Eating blog. One Death Row prisoner in…