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

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We knew it was important for her dealings with Fausto's business, but I thought that was the first time we found out she wrote her plans against Fausto in it?
 
RatskyWatsky said:
Also, I thought the flashback showing Eleanor stabbing that dude in the car was kind of out of place. Like, why did they feel the need to show that?
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I thought it was rather interesting to see what drove her to doing that. She's not really the killer type, she got people for that.
 
Schattenjäger;130265561 said:
Have S2 on my dvr - should i bother watching it ?
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I'd say you should give it a shot, though the season takes a few episodes to start to come together. Most reactions on GAF have been positive with a few dissenters. I don't think the show has made the leap to greatness like most wanted, but it's still very interesting to me and worth watching.
 
Needs more
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but besides that, it has been pretty good.
 
Dan said:
I'll chime in with a recommendation for The Honorable Woman here.
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Just wanted to agree with this. It's fantastic.


Finally all caught up. The last few have been much better than the start of the season for me.
 
New episode tonight:
Beholder

Marco hits a crossroads in his relationship with Fausto; Sonya squares off with Eleanor; Linder and Eva discuss their future; Frye and Adriana uncover a rift between agencies.
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@andygreenwald said:
Tonight's episode of THE BRIDGE is such a brilliant showcase for @ImRamonFranco. Fausto Galvan one of contemporary TV's great villains.
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Sounds like we get some good Fausto time tonight.
 
On-set photo:

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If The Bridge ends up getting canceled, I want FX to occasionally run random 30-second snippets of the two of them discussing vampire lit for the next few years.




The Artful Dodger said:
If someone can make me a Fausto Avatar, I'll wear it after I'm done with this avatar bet I lost
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Good because your current avatar is terribad.

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Even if there's some hyperbole, it's nice that someone out there is talking about The Bridge.

Cornballer said:
- NY Mag interview: Adam Arkin on The Bridge, Directing Himself, and Getting Mistaken for George Clooney
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Did you ever get mistaken for George Clooney?
Not only did I get mistaken for him, I got mistaken for him when I was going into the Emmys by a photographer. I was walking in, and I kept hearing somebody say, "Hey, George! Hey, George!" And I realized one of the photographers was calling me. I finally stopped and said, "Hey, buddy, it's not George." And he lowered his camera and said, "Oh, excuse me. Mr. Clooney!"

Still, I'd take that as a compliment. He's not a bad-looking guy.
I don't think I look exactly like him, but I look maybe 20 percent like him. So I'm really fine if somebody wants to start paying me $4 million a picture.
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Haha, awesome.
 
Kind of cool that after tonight, Adam Arkin will have directed and guest-starred in episodes of The Bridge, Sons of Anarchy, The Americans, and Justified.

EDIT: Oh wait, he never appeared on The Americans. Just directed a few episodes.
 
Beard : Linder :: Cowl : Batman

The botched attempts at creating the hostage tape were great.
 
Happy to see Hank alive.

It's a bit lame how easily Eleanor was caught and how easily she apparently escapes. My interest for that character and that story thread is waning. Fausto and his shenanigans is the main hook for me.
 
Even though Fausto is far from being one of contemporary TV's great villains, I do agree that he had some strong scenes this week. The opening scene with the bungled filming of the hostage tape was quite amusing and the quinceañera crash was as tense as any other scene they've done this season.

Also, I liked the scene between Linder and Eva, but I feel like their time on the show is coming to an end. If the show is renewed, I'd like for both of them to be written off. Their storyline is only tangentially related to everything else that's going on and I don't have faith that the writers will satisfactorily weave them into whatever the new arc will be in the hypothetical third season.
 
Fausto knows he's time is coming. I don't know if dancing with a 15 year old is one of the final things to do, but okay...

I loved the recording bit with the hostage. Both of them were hilarious goofballs there.

I didn't put it together that the homeless lady was Sonya's mom. I guess I should have, but I did not.
 
Hey Adriana, what about your missing sister, eh? Perplexing it hasn't been brought up other than the one scene very early in the season.
I thought that's the point of the Linder-Eva journey. Get revenge, get Robles to talk before killing him or whatever so they'd get the info where the sister is held. Very stupid the show didn't link those two stories together. 2 birds 1 stone.
 
Saty said:
Hey Adriana, what about your missing sister, eh? Perplexing it hasn't been brought up other than the one scene very early in the season.
I thought that's the point of the Linder-Eva journey. Get revenge, get Robles to talk before killing him or whatever so they'd get the info where the sister is held. Very stupid the show didn't link those two stories together. 2 birds 1 stone.
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I love how you exist solely to shit on television shows.
 
Nah, it's just that i'm not as vocal about series i like or satisfied with. For example, i'm current catching up with The Honourable Woman, which is a good and recommended show.

Ofc, i don't think what i said was 'shitting on'. I'd be surprised if you haven't scratched your head over the plotline they introduced late last season (or was it in this season's premiere?) that is going completely untouched.
 
Saty said:
Nah, it's just that i'm not as vocal about series i like or satisfied with. For example, i'm current catching up with The Honourable Woman, which is a good and recommended show.

Ofc, i don't think what i said was 'shitting on'. I'd be surprised if you haven't scratched your head over the plotline they introduced late last season (or was it in this season's premiere?) that is going completely untouched.
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I'm slightly teasing. Generally i just see you on a handful of threads pissed off over plotholes hahaha
 
That's no less than three (!) people in this thread telling you all to put The Honorable Woman on your radar. Take note, everyone :)

Saty said:
Ofc, i don't think what i said was 'shitting on'. I'd be surprised if you haven't scratched your head over the plotline they introduced late last season (or was it in this season's premiere?) that is going completely untouched.
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It was the season one finale.

From Sepinwall's interview with Elwood Reid:

One of the things you seemed to be setting up throughout season 1, but especially in those closing episodes, was the idea that season 2 would be about the lost girls of Juarez. And you've dealt with that a little with Eva's story, but the main arc has been about this war between the cartel and the DEA. What led to that pivot away from the lost girls?

Elwood Reid: Two versions. One is, that's a real thing. The women of Juarez is a real thing. These are not fictional victims of Hannibal Lecter, and it's a very complicated issue. I've been down there, I've been to the vigils, I met one of the mothers who lost her daughter. It's a very sad, heartbreaking situation. I did not want to ride in like arrogant American writers and be like, "Our cops can solve this," put a little bow on it and put it in a box. We want it to be like the way drugs were in "The Wire": something that's never going to be solved, and will hang over the whole show. And if we get a third or fourth season, we'll get into the aspects of those girls, but it's going to haunt the series. I don't for any stretch of the imagination that when the show ends, that we'll have revealed the killer of all these girls of Juarez. It's a socio-economic situation, a cultural thing that's deeply embedded down there. I was very very nervous about having a simplistic, reductive solution to that crime. But I wanted it to haunt the series. Just like at the end of "The Wire," nothing has changed in the drug trade. No one has solved the drug business, no one has put all of the bad guys away, and the machine grinds on. That was always my plan with the dead girls of Juarez. If we get more seasons, we want to try to really get into the emotional weight of those crimes, and really live with them. There was a plan early on this season for Sonya to get involved with Adriana's disappeared sister, but we put it off, because it was one too many storylines.
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Well, the explanation is fine but ultimately you are depicting Adriana absorbed in her case and not giving shit about her sister. It's ok if you don't want to have a simplistic resolution, but you can make Adriana face walls trying to get some attention to the kidnapping or having the authorities involved.
It was probably a mistake to go introduce that plotline with Adriana's plate full.
 
Saty said:
Well, the explanation is fine but ultimately you are depicting Adriana absorbed in her case and not giving shit about her sister. It's ok if you don't want to have a simplistic resolution, but you can make Adriana face walls trying to get some attention to the kidnapping or having the authorities involved.
It was probably a mistake to go introduce that plotline with Adriana's plate full.
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lol, I do agree with that. I kinda wish she had this private breakdown moment about it, even if its just one scene just to show its still on her mind.
 
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