The show makes visual poetry of a line of black-garbed cops sweeping through a brightly green field in search of foul play. The calculated wonder driving the scenes brings to mind the style of film directors Andrei Tarkovsky and Terence Malick.
The show's slow pacing and panoramic style (both visually and in the narrative) create a delicate world entirely unlike the action-packed frenzy of many crime shows. There she is: bruises and a butterfly necklace. No need-what's more effective and haunting is the dripping water the audience first sees before the camera pans up to show it falling from her wet hair. When Rosie's parents see her body, the camera doesn't immediately veer into the corpse's face. Stoic, serious, and yet and sensitively perceptive, she remains professional-as Alyssa Rosenberg observed, the scene is a testament to the character's chilly strength, a quiet competence that forces her to follow through on the case. Larsen," the red-haired Detective Linden tells him. Seattle rain pours against a background of darkness, dreary as any scene in the show's world: moodily intense and saturated in rich, gorgeous color. "Is it my daughter?" Stan asks, voice cracking.
The discovery unfolds slowly: ominous tonal music, the serendipitous arrival of Rosie's father Stan Larsen (Brent Sexton), his inevitable breakdown as he tries to enter the crime scene, his wife Mitch ( True Blood's Michelle Forbes) hearing everything on the phone and falling apart in front of her other two young children. Her corpse did not even appear until the end of the first hour, when the show's lead character, homicide detective Sarah Linden ( Big Love's Mireille Enos), discovers 17-year-old Rosie drowned in the trunk of a car, fingernails gone from attempting to scratch her way out. The Killing's two-hour debut never showed Rosie Larsen in life except in brief flashes. And its 13-episode first season, in a nod to the question launching Twin Peaks two decades ago, asks: Who killed Rosie Larsen? Based on the hit Danish show Forbrydelsen, the show examines-in painful, up-close detail-the consequences of Rosie's murder for the police investigators, the parents, her peers, and even a local politician. AMC's new show The Killing offers a simple premise: Rosie Larsen is dead.
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