#The killing danish vs american reddit tv

So given the differences, is the remake actually any good? It's been ecstatically reviewed in the US and it's true that the first episode is compelling, clever television with a good performance from Big Love's Mireille Enos as Linden and a particularly powerful turn from Michelle Forbes as the missing girl's mother, now named Mitch. It comes as no surprise to discover that Sud was also executive producer of Cold Case.

#The killing danish vs american reddit tv

By contrast Linden, although still contemplative and aloof, is much more like the driven female cops on US TV that we're used to seeing from The Closer to Saving Grace. Much of the power of Forbrydelsen lay in Lund вЂ“ a tightly wound woman unable to communicate with those closest to her вЂ“ and how she differed from the standard TV cop. It's a tired plot device that seems unlikely to illuminate the character.

There is one other change, which concerns Linden's character: according to Sud, Linden is hiding a secret. The US Killing is unlikely to collapse in quite the same way, although its worth noting that one of the most satisfying things about the original was that the killer not only made sense, the clues as to why had been carefully sewn from the beginning. But it's also a pretty risky move, as anyone who sat through the US remake of Life on Mars, only to be confronted with an ending so laughably ridiculous that it practically induced retinal bleeding, could tell you. That's perhaps understandable in our spoiler-ridden internet age. There are other changes too вЂ“ Veena Sud, the show's executive producer, has compared the US version to jazz: 'We get to riff off a really beautiful piece, but we tell our own story' вЂ“ the biggest difference of all being that the killer and the motive are apparently completely different. The jumpers are still present вЂ“ although Lund has become Linden, the murdered girl is now Rosie Larsen and we're are in Seattle, the only place in America as wet as The Killing's Copenhagen. When it was announced that AMC, the channel behind Mad Men, was making an American version of The Killing, my first reaction was: Why? Even if they believed Americans incapable of watching a subtitled a show, surely US television bosses couldn't hope to capture the spirit of Forbrydelsen, with its lengthy pauses and satisfyingly complicated, slow-burning storylines, Wouldn't a US version soften Sarah Lund's sharp edges, trying to make this most dysfunctional of heroines more likeable? And вЂ“ most importantly of all вЂ“ what would happen to the knitwear?ДЇans of the latter can rest assured.