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This week's episode of The Killing.

[PRO-TIP Don't watch this week's The Killing and Fruitvale Station in the same day!]I actually don't know how to fully respond to this episode.

How.

This show?

HOW?

I just...

Yeah.

Sarsgaard completely broke me when he called "Get off of me," when it was clear that they were going to drag him away rather than let him see his son. Who was mere yards away. The delivery and the agony. I

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[waltzmatildah]

So.

I sent an email to catteo a couple of weeks ago theorising on the liklihood that the show would 'go there' with regard to hanging an innocent man. We remarked that the show had been pretty bold in its storytelling choices in seasons one and two, and that if ANY show could do it, it would be this one. BUT... I then tempered this with discussion about the potential political fall out in the real world (where capital punishment is SUCH a contentious issue) and whether the network would give Veena permission/the freedom to even consider it. In the end I kinda decided that I WANTED them to (sorry Ray!), but that they probably wouldn't be ALLOWED to. After all, it did seem to me like there were some definite shifts this year that it's possible to attribute to conditions of their being renewed (the more blatant shippiness and the pace of the storytelling in general, for example).

BUT THEN...

BUT THEN THEY WENT THERE!!!

THEY WENT THERE AND MORE!!! OMG!

Not only did they execute an innocent man (well, innocent of THIS crime anyway, and probably innocent of death sentence crimes in general too), they showed the execution being BOTCHED!! They included the visceral ~sounds of him freaking CHOKING TO DEATH at the end of the noose.

OMFG.

This show. There's really only one thing to 'say'



That's about as coherent as I can manage at the moment, despite the fact that 24 hours have passed since I watched it!!

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Still emotionally drained. Even Sheldon can't help me now.