The Killing Returns to the UK

Saturday sees the return of The Killing (Forbrydelsen) to BBC4, in the UK. The Danish crime drama‘s first season was a success earlier this year and even saw the US do their own version on AMC. While the BBC might have lost Mad Men to big spending Sky, the cheaper Danish import proved to be more of a success and ended up attracting more viewers than the US drama. The Killing started with 472,000 viewers and ended with 599,000 (the show’s highest rated episode was ep17 with 613,000 viewers).

I found out about the show through a colleague, got my hands on all 20 episodes and ended up watching them all in two weekends. It wasn’t the perfect show and I still hand many questions at the end but it had me hooked. When I checked at out a few sites afterwards, I found at there were people discussing everything from the characters, the score, the writing and the jumpers; I couldn’t believe there was so much talk about it.

The famous jumper courtesy of Gudrun & Gudrun