TANTOO KILLS ON THE KILLING

I had practically given up on The Killing. It’s just too hard on the eyes to squint at that darkness (somebody please give the producers more of a budget for lighting). Of course, I know it is supposed to be atmospheric. And I frequently have to turn on MUTE on my remote so I can see the text of the dialogue because of the mumbling. And I swear, I am not THAT old!
So what a refreshment to settle into The Killing last night and find Tantoo Cardinal, a wonderful Canadian actress (who I first met on the set of Marie Anne, a Canadian movie about the early West, where we played cousins and hung around campfires in buckskin) playing a worldly hooker.
Oh my goodness, The Killing is so grim and monotone that I was just about to switch away when Holder (I think that is his name) is shown talking to a woman at the bar at the casino. And there was Tantoo! Somehow she made this grim scene so entertaining, funny, even, with her jaded reaction to Holder.
I believed every moment of her few moments onscreen. Somebody give this woman her own series. Just saying.