Sunday Spin: Bending things for TV political drama

I’ll be watching the cable TV drama “The Killing” Sunday night to find out who killed Rosie Larson, even though it irks me.
Not just because the main character, Sarah Linden, could get an Emmy for worst TV mother in a drama, or that it is set in Seattle but was mostly shot in Vancouver, B.C. Our northern neighbor offered more tax deals, so producers must have decided one rainy Northwest city looks like any other.
But what irks me most is the fracturing of political facts thrown into the storyline for no good reason. Perhaps more precisely, it irks my wife because I keep saying, “Well, that couldn’t happen because…” until she tells me to pipe down so she can watch the show.
For those who have never watched,

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