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"FacebookPinterest\n\n Based on a Danish police procedural, AMC's new Seattle-set series, The Killing, plays a little like Twin Peaks minus the goofy surrealism. In the pilot, directed with a sharp mix of atmosphere and tension by Patty Jenkins (Monster), a teenage girl's disappearance after a Halloween party gets halfway-out-the-station-door police detective Sarah Linden (Big Love alum Mireille Enos) working one last case, in tandem with Joel Kinnaman as her skeevy but shrewd new partner\u2014the kind of cop who's not above sharing a joint with a couple of hot-to-trot underage babes to get information, relishing both the turn-on and the bait and switch. Others caught up in the story line's crosshairs include the victim's grieving parents (Michelle Forbes and Brent Sexton, both of whom are first-rate) and an up-and-coming politico (Billy Campbell) whose mayoral campaign could use some emergency salvaging once a body turns up in the trunk of a car signed out to one of his staffers. Wherever the central mystery ends up leading, the social strata being vivisected week in and week out\u2014from finky rich kids to sullen street ones, harassed city administrators to their showboating bosses, big-city power elites to blue-collar folks getting by\u2014are an extremely good bet to keep you hooked. And trust us: With a gut-turning reveal in the second episode that could leave you thinking Twin Peaks' poor Laura Palmer got off lucky by comparison, The Killing only gets better and better."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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