SEASON PREMIERE: After watching the two hours that make up tonight’s Season 3 premiere, I’m still not sure how enthusiastically to recommend it. I continue to love, and respond to, the abrasive but oddly endearing characters of Holder (Joel Kinnaman) and Linden (Mireille Enos) – but they’re on different paths for most of these first two hours. And the central guest star, Peter Sarsgaard as Death Row prisoner Ray Seward, barely has time to interact with either of them yet. So will this season be a tighter, more satisfying murder mystery? Or another ramble down red herring lane, like the crushingly disappointing two-season case that preceded it? Only time will tell, and I’m not sure whether even its ardent fans should forgive, forget, and give it the time to prove itself.

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Davey

"crushingly disappointing"? It got kind of slow, but I've never understood your hyperbolic dissing of this show. The characters are light years more interesting than any of the pop CSI-type crime shows, as is the writing. I think the problem is that you want this to be a whodunnit and it wants to be a drama that centers on a crime. I don't care that much about whodunnit. I'm pretty much content to watch the characters stumble, think, follow dead ends, and interact. I'll most definitely be watching. I just hope all the criticism by the impatient doesn't steer the producers to turn this into yet another tedious, repetitive CSI or Mentalist cover.

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John C

Of course we should! They don't call us ardent for nothing, you know.

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