Advance Review: This Monday, after the Season 2 premiere of A&E's Bates Motel, comes the debut of the new dark thriller Those Who Kill - starring Chloe Sevigny and based on a Danish series (as many crime shows are these days). And though I offer that it makes for a suitably morbid pairing with Bates, Those Who Kill still fails to resonate, its leads lacking chemistry and its depravity feeling rather rudimentary in comparison to better shows like NBC's Hannibal and BBC's Luther.
The first episode of Those Who Kill seemingly has all the right ingredients. Penned by creator Glen Morgan (The X-Files, Millennium), it's got dirty, rusty Pittsburgh steel town backdrops, an enigmatic homicide detective who spends quiet moments with her cigarettes, and an academic profiler whose mind occasionally gets lost in his "work." The usual things one would expect from a grim, sadistic show about serial killers. Elements that, in the right hands, could actual elevate a show out of the grime and into something a bit more lyrical. But Those Who Kill just sort of sits there, flat, with very little to draw us in other than our own fascination with creepy TV psychos.
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