AMC's Apology Tour For "The Killing" Continues

Usually, when a hit show ends its season with a major cliffhanger, it goes over well with fans.  Everyone loves a good "Holy crap!" moment in the final seconds of the episode, and that tantalizing wait for whatever is set to go down in the following season.  But in the case of AMC's The Killing...not so much.  Fans of the show expected that young Rosie Larsen's killer would finally be revealed by the end of the season finale.  After all, that's what Forbrydelsen, the original Danish version of show did so they could move on to a brand new case next season.

Well, The Killing didn't do that.  Worse, they let the whole thing unravel in the last minute of the episode, infuriating fans who'd stuck with show for thirteen episodes that had moved at the pace of a glacier only to find out that the endless case of Rosie Larsen will continue next season.

According to TVGuide.com, AMC's Senior Vice President of Original Programming Joel Stillerman assures fans of The Killing at AMC's fall preview event that the network feels their pain (and is probably sick of hearing people gripe about it by now) and kinda admits that ending the season that way was a bad idea.  "Our goal was to create a brilliant, if I can be so humble, piece of character-based storytelling mixed with a genre we all love, which is the murder mystery..." says Stillerman, "We think we got there, but we didn't manage expectations the way we should have."

Stillerman also gave assurances that Rosie's killer will definitely be revealed in Season 2.  Presumably, they want to put this whole saga behind them as soon as possible, so I wouldn't be surprised if the killer was found before the opening titles rolled on the season premiere.  Or at least close to that.

Even better news from AMC:  Mad Men goes back in to production on August 8!  Jon Hamm is set to direct the season opener.