At Least it Wasn't Raining

OK, I've finally seen the last episode of The Killing, and there are three things that bother me about the finale:

1. There is no way Belko Royce would get that close to Darren Richmond. The police and the press got their show by arresting Richmond at his rally, it seems highly unlikely they'd make him do the perp walk as well. Unless Mayor Adams is hoping for a Jack Ruby moment, in which case, thank you Belko.

2. How long will it take Richmond's defense to figure out the toll photo is a fake? If the cameras haven't been working for weeks, it's not going to be hard to discredit the photo. Unless the conspiracy against Richmond is very thorough, there's not going to be a way to remove all of the documented history of the cameras being out and produce "real" camera footage to back up the photo.

3. There is still no real physical evidence tying Richmond to Rosie as far as I can tell, making this Casey Anthony redux. Which I suppose will be OK if the purpose of Richmond's arrest is just to thwart his campaign.

Still, it was a very solid series and I'm looking forward to the second season. Kudos for the Emmy nods, especially Michelle Forbes, whose depiction of the shattered Mitch Larsen was quietly impressive.

So Maybe I'll Watch the Emmys Now?

So, as usual, I didn't bother with the Emmys, and of course they had to go crazy this year and appear to use merit when giving out the awards. So much for my rant about the Emmy love affair with Boston Legal. I could start a rant about their love for 30 Rock, except that it's fave of mine, too.

OK, I did see a few minutes of the awards during a break in football, and caught the tail end of Josh Groban's theme song medley (which I'll have to YouTube), Laura Linney's speech after she won for John Adams (liked the snarky plug for community organizers at the end), and the Laugh-In bit (which was Rob Lowe sings with Sleeping Beauty levels of awful). I can't say I'm sorry to have not watched the show in its entirety.

The Emmys are actually good for something

So the Emmy finalists were announced last week, and for all that I don't care about them I was taken with the haul of nominations for Mad Men, the AMC show about 1960s ad execs. So when the network ran a marathon over the weekend, I figured I'd sample.

I didn't watch more than an episode, sad to say, but I liked what I saw. Off to find the DVDs!