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The Killing - Season 2 - Ratings Down

Apr 2, 2012

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AMC’s The Killing — with all its gloom and parkas and rain and mystery — returned Sunday night, but not all its fans came back to watch the show.

Breaking AMC’s ratings hot streak this past year, the two-hour drama series debut averaged 1.8 million viewers. That’s down 33 percent from the show’s first season opener. If you include the show’s repeat, The Killing topped out at 2.5 million viewers, down 47 percent from last year’s trio of premiere-night airings.

Some wondered if the show’s ratings would drop for its second season after frustrating fans with an unexpected cliffhanger ending last year. The show plan to solve the mystery of who killed Rosie Larsen at the end of this season.

Every other drama series on AMC has returned to higher ratings lately. That includes Mad Men, which delivered its biggest numbers ever last week. Mad Men delivered 2.9 million viewers last night, down only 17 percent from last week two-hour premiere.

Source: EW
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12 comments:

  1. Burhan ZamanApril 2, 2012 at 8:52 PM

    i think its a mixture of a truely frustrating cliffhanger and premiering against Game of Thrones

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  2. LouApril 2, 2012 at 8:57 PM

    No surprise at all, the amount of hate and frustration people felt from the finale and then the previews for S2 from the TV critics pretty much universally derided the show

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  3. laura3341April 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM

    I'm not surprised,i wasn't going to watch after last season myself.Well at least we have this season,maybe viewership will pick up?

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  4. RobertAriadneApril 2, 2012 at 9:35 PM

    Serves them right for that BS cliffhanger last season.

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  5. Jenni LouApril 2, 2012 at 10:13 PM

    No surprise. I wasn't outraged like a lot of people. But I also still haven't watched last night's eps yet.

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  6. Siobhan CarrollApril 2, 2012 at 10:17 PM

    Not surprise at all, after how they end last season, plus the final nail in the coffin might have been them confirming that they will not solved who killed Rosie until end of season 2. I know it was for me.

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  7. LinlighthouseApril 2, 2012 at 10:20 PM

    I knew something was wrong when in the late afternoon following the night of the episodes, there are still only 3 comments on this board. Time was, there were lots, everyone proposing a theory.

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  8. DarqueModeApril 3, 2012 at 1:09 AM

    I would have been shocked if the numbers were close to last years, but to drop 47% is a bit shocking to me even and I hated the finale!

    I guess it just goes to show that if you tell people that each season will be a complete case and they are told to expect answers, you give them answers or you suffer for not giving answers!

    People want answers.. look at the reactions to the LOST finale.
    While I thought it answered more than it left hanging, so many people did not get the specific answers they wanted and the LOST finale is one of the most hated in history.

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  9. arun279April 3, 2012 at 6:19 AM

    here's the problem clear and simple: they fooled the fans and gave smartass comments instead of accepting the error throughout the year. It's really as simple as that.

    days before the season 2 premiere they issued statements about managing expectations and shit like that which people saw as a PR move and it was not sincere. If they don't care about fans, fans are not going to care about the show.

    this is not CSI or NCIS, they don't have a huge built-in CBS-crimeshow-audience. They ticked off the vocal online community, the very audience that they need to attract to shows like this. That was a shitty move.

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  10. arun279April 3, 2012 at 6:41 AM

     about LOST finale. Agree, it's one of the most hated. When I first watched it, I was caught up with everything that was going on and the last scenes were really emotional and when it was done, I was happy with it... After the emotions of the finale faded away I realized that they did not reveal some really important things. They never really said what the island was all about except some really vague stuff. My brother who likes to make fun of all sci fi shows I watch, watched the finale with me and joked that even the creators did not know what to say and left it up to interpretation cuz they were out of ideas. :D While I disagreed with him, I had to accept that I did not stick with a a mystery show for 6 years just to have such an ending.

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  11. Selene1212April 4, 2012 at 2:45 AM

    Such a shame because its a really good show.

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  12. Eric MarshallApril 28, 2012 at 6:12 PM

    NEVER  watch   this  again  ,,, Not    after  last year  

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