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If atmosphere were substance, The Killing would be the greatest show on TV.  When I think back on the two-hour premiere of the show's third season (AMC, June 2, 9 p.m.), what comes to mind are images and sounds: former detective Sarah Linden (Mirielle Enos) silhouetted in the doorway of the office belonging to her former partner Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman), Holder scrunched into the lower right-hand corner of the frame, slouched in a rolling office chair, grinning; Holder questioning a possible witness to a street girl's savage murder, his face shrouded in gray shadow; another street kid, the underage Kallie Leeds (Cate Sproule), seated on the bed of a john she went home with, reflected in a mirror that's cracked in a mosaic pattern; the rivulets of rain coursing down windowpanes, a key motif in this perpetually dark, wet show. The sound of the rain: whispery, insistent. And the...

I’ve been coming to grips with The Killing’s resurrection over the last few months, though the process has been slow and arduous .It’s just not a show I look back on with fond memories, which makes looking forward to the new season, even with all the intriguing story ideas I’ve heard, seem an impossibility. It turns out, however, all I really needed was to see something that would solidify my faith in a better future. It isn’t much, but it’s enough to at least shed some of my fears, the big one being Season 3 won’t have changed at all. But just looking at the new poster tells me there will be big changes coming. Whether they are good or bad remains to be seen, but at least the series didn’t stubbornly remain the same.

The image, which depicts Linden (Mireille Enos) and...

The Killing‘s Linden and Holder are back on duty on June 2 (AMC, 8/7c), and we’ve got your exclusive first look at the powerful pair’s third season — as well as a visual hint at the new case that will consume them.

In the photo below, Mireille Enos‘ Sarah Linden and Joel Kinnaman‘s Stephen Holder stare stalwartly into the distance while a group of street kids (new cast members Cate Sproule, Max Fowler, Julia Sarah Stone and Bex Taylor Klaus) hang out in the background.

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