Genre

• The killing follows conventions of a typical police procedural- lack emphasis on personal lives, a high focus on law, police-related topics and a detective scheme which seems to work alone, There are also conventions of film-noir- investigator, crime, heavy smoking, urban locations bleak view of humanity, gives the audience a lot of excitement to watch as it would be different from their usual police procedural or noire,
• Steve Neale suggests that genre is instances of repetition or differences, this also applies to The Killing as they borrow features from a few genres which excite the audience,
• Rather than have one case per episode, the show takes one case over an entire series to unpack all the social, cultural and political aspects surrounding crime, this causes it to have multiple narrative strands,
• A narrative strand is a story which focuses on certain characters, in a single narrative strand, the story focuses on one main hero, however in a multi-narrative, the story focuses on many different characters, the killing does this by introducing multiple suspects.