The Bridge - Diane Kruger & Demian Bichir cross-border crime thriller - S2 on FX

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Being a pet isn't on the to-do list.

Adriana girlfriend shouldn't die. She fought back and killed her attacker, which is pretty good actually.

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I should add, that everything can't go right for Fausto each episode. He must take a loss every now and then.
 
Great episode. The plotlines are all converging, there were a couple of standout scenes (the opening coke binge, Sonya & Hank's conversations), and the plot is moving along at a brisk pace. We're just past the midpoint of the season and I'm curious where the show goes from here.
 
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Being a pet isn't on the to-do list.
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That was an awesome - if not incredibly fucked up - backstory. Franka Potente sold the hell out of that scene.

(I also really liked her conversation with Cesar about erotic vampire novels)

Adriana girlfriend shouldn't die. She fought back and killed her attacker, which is pretty good actually.
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Agreed. I hope she pulls through.
 
Just when I thought I couldn't love this show anymore it had one of the best episodes of television of the entire summer last night.

Absolutely brilliant.
 
I mentioned Fausto in my last post. I really love how despite his willingness to play up his "ignorant campesino (peasant farmer)" status, he seems pretty intelligent as it shows him reading that book and expressing a desire to see the Fjords.

I really enjoy his character and that exchange last episode with Cerisola (“In public, power is best wielded with a gloved hand, not a clenched fist.” "Anybody who says that has never been to my neighborhood.”) feeds into this episode in a subtle yet incredibly effective manner. I wonder if the rest of the season is more of a power play between the two. We see time and time again, these characters caught up in greater events and merely doing what they can to survive, and taking that for a victory.

It's great to see, despite a slow beginning to this season, all the stories intersecting in crazy ways and I look forward to the rest of it. This has become one of my favorite shows.
 
Caught up with this show over the weekend and wow. If there ever might have been a The Wire-follow up, this is as close as we may get. Qualitywise it's not there by any means, but it still has aspect of The Wire that have to be admired. From a good show it slowly mutates into a potentially (!) amazing show and I can't wait how it will develope. I heard the ratings are miserable, but I really hope FX recognizes what they have with The Bridge. If history dares to repeat itself this could be the next Netflix-star in 5 or 6-years.
 
New episode tonight:
Goliath

Sonya visits a stranger from her past; Marco's tainted history is unearthed; Frye takes a step too far; Eleanor's loyalties are tested; a move is made to apprehend Fausto.
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Someone will need to explain me these 38-minute runtime episodes. There have been like 3-4 episodes like that in the series and it's a phenomenon i don't recall in any other 60minute drama series.
 
The director on this episode sure loved his extreme closeups.

Shit is hitting the fan.
 
Saty said:
Someone will need to explain me these 38-minute runtime episodes. There have been like 3-4 episodes like that in the series and it's a phenomenon i don't recall in any other 60minute drama series.
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22 minutes of free commercials!
 
I've been a few behind, but just watched a couple. The one where Adriana's girlfriend got stabbed (among other plot points) was really damn good. Probably my favorite this season so far.
 
- Collider: Demián Bichir Talks THE BRIDGE Season 2
Season 2 of the FX crime thriller The Bridge has Detective Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger) and her Mexican counterpart, Detective Marco Ruiz (Demián Bichir) teamed up again to when the body of a cartel member is found on U.S. soil. Brutal crimes and dangerous enemies will see them pulled into a complex web of drug running, money laundering and police corruption. This season also stars Ted Levine, Matthew Lillard, Emily Rios, Thomas M. Wright, Annabeth Gish, Franka Potente, Nathan Phillips, Abraham Benrubi and Lyle Lovett.

During this exclusive interview with Collider, actor Demián Bichir talked about how excited he was to explore new avenues of the story for The Bridge Season 2, that he likes the way the show doesn’t label one country as good and the other as bad, the importance of keeping the promises you set up over the course of a season, having his brother Bruno on the show this season, working with such a talented cast, and playing a character that is very clear about where he wants to go and how he wants things to be done. He also talked about the experience of shooting his directorial debut, Refugio (which he also wrote, produced and starred in), that he can’t wait to direct again, and how he’d like to direct an episode of The Bridge. Check out what he had to say after the jump, and be aware that there are some spoilers.
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New episode tonight:
Rakshasa

Sonya finds herself in the cross hairs as Marco races against the clock; Fausto discovers betrayal within his organization; an unexpected rendezvous unfolds at Red Ridge View.
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Charlotte finally dead. Chopper taken out quite easily. Sonya saved by good guy Marco. And Hank soon to be dead I assume. Many things happened within the course of tonight's episode.
 
- Andy Greenwald for Grantland: TV Check-in: ‘The Bridge’ Is the Best Show on TV You’re Probably Still Not Watching
Like the very best crime writers, Reid uses his rich setting as kindling. (Though filmed primarily in California, The Bridge has an inimitable sense of place: the dry, punishing sun of El Paso; the aroma and clatter of a busy Juárez street.) And unlike the bulk of contemporary cable dramas, his show is actually contemporary: Set on the fault line between the U.S. and Mexico, it engages hot-button issues like immigration, drugs, racism, and misogyny — not how they might have appeared in, say, 1960, but how they appear right now, right here, for all of us. But The Bridge is far from a documentary or an exercise in amateur reportage. It is, first and foremost, a gripping entertainment, one that packs every scene with rich characters and the sort of peculiar quirks that tend to exist in real life, not on television, where plot and its ugly stepchild, resolution, are kings. In lieu of swagger and stereotype, The Bridge luxuriates in idiosyncrasies: an NA sponsor with a thing for classic Rush albums, a DEA agent painting D&D figurines, a Mexican drug lord who spends his downtime pining for the fjords.
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Great great great great episode. I'm so glad they got rid of Charlotte. She was completely unnecessary. The only negative was no Daniel/Adriana.
 
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