History YMMV / TheKilling

* RetroactiveRecognition: Bullet is [[Series/ScreamTVSeries Audrey Jensen]].

** "That You Fear the Most" through "Head Shots": [[WouldHurtAChild Goldie]], though a minor villain, establishes his pronounced depravity and wickedness by beating and raping the teenage Bullet for breaking into his apartment. Caught by the cops, it is discovered Goldie is both a distributor of child pornography and a SerialRapist of underage girls himself, before he manages to humiliate the police and [[KarmaHoudini weasel his way out of the punishment he deserves]].

** The [[ArcVillain Pied Piper]], real name James Skinner, poses as an innocuous family man while moonlighting as a SerialRapist and SerialKiller of dozens upon dozens of [[WouldHurtAChild young girls]]. When spotted in the act by a young boy, the Piper makes plans to kill him but ends up murdering the child's mother and [[FrameUp framing]] his father for the deed. Killing Bullet for discovering his identity, the Piper is eventually cornered by Sarah Linden and tries to goad her into murdering him by boasting the girls he killed were "garbage" undeserving of being seen as human beings. With his claim of not harming children shattered by his vast number of young female victims, the Piper is a hypocritical, misogynistic psychopath with an ego so large none of his deplorable crimes elicit any measure of human emotion from him.

* CompleteMonster:
** Season 3: The [[ArcVillain Pied Piper]], real name [[spoiler:James Skinner]], poses as an innocuous family man while moonlighting as a SerialRapist and SerialKiller of dozens upon dozens of [[WouldHurtAChild young girls]]. When spotted in the act by a young boy, the Piper makes plans to kill him but ends up murdering the child's mother and [[FrameUp framing]] his father for the deed. Killing Bullet for discovering his identity, the Piper is eventually cornered by Sarah Linden and tries to goad her into murdering him by boasting the girls he killed were "garbage" undeserving of being seen as human beings. With his claim of not harming children shattered by his vast number of young female victims, the Piper is a hypocritical, misogynistic psychopath with an ego so large none of his deplorable crimes elicit any measure of human emotion from him.
** Season 3's 2nd-4th episodes: [[WouldHurtAChild Goldie]], though a minor villain, establishes his pronounced depravity and wickedness by beating and raping the teenage Bullet for breaking into his apartment. Caught by the cops, it is discovered Goldie is both a distributor of child pornography and a SerialRapist of underage girls himself, before he manages to humiliate the police and [[KarmaHoudini weasel his way out of the punishment he deserves]].

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: There is no clear consensus on whether Nikki's racist insult toward the parking garage attendant is a reluctant ShooTheDog moment and he didn't really want to say it, or if Nikki is a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk and said it from the he

* ShockingSwerve: A lot of complaints about the first season finale came down to one of these where it was revealed [[spoiler: Holder delivered faked evidence that fingered Richmond as the killer. The second season made it clear that Holder wasn't aware it was fake.]]

** The Pied Piper, real name [[spoiler:James Skinner]], ArcVillain of season 3, poses as an innocuous family man while moonlighting as a SerialRapist and SerialKiller of dozens upon dozens of [[WouldHurtAChild young girls]]. When spotted in the act by a young boy, the Piper makes plans to kill him but ends up murdering the child's mother and framing his father for the deed. Killing Bullet for discovering his identity, the Piper is eventually cornered by Sarah Linden and tries to goad her into murdering him by boasting the girls he killed were "garbage" undeserving of being seen as human beings. With his claim of not harming children shattered by his vast number of young female victims, the Piper is a hypocritical, misogynistic psychopath with an ego so large none of his deplorable crimes elicit any measure of human emotion from him.

%%* TheChrisCarterEffect

** Though a minor villain, [[WouldHurtAChild Goldie]], from the 2nd through 4th episodes of season 3, establishes his pronounced depravity and wickedness by beating and raping the teenage Bullet for breaking into his apartment. Caught by the cops, it is discovered Goldie is both a distributor of child pornography and a SerialRapist of underage girls himself, before he manages to humiliate the police and [[KarmaHoudini weasel his way out of the punishment he deserves]].

* CompleteMonster