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

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Ok, so solid season opener....

I have a question...

During the preview for this season, did I see
David Tate
in a hospital bed???
 
blakep267 said:
so I missed the last 20 minutes, after they went to the real estate guys house. Anybody care to give me some spoilers
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New president has an interest in Marco but his intentions seem unclear as to why hes interested in him or what he wants.

Sonya and Jack Hobbes have awkward after sex scene where he notices that she has hung up on her fridge the drawings his brother drew.

Police Chief hands Eva over to sketchy ex convict/druggie to watch over her and protect her since the Juarez cops are watching him. He takes a pic of his license plate and warns him not to harm Eva.

Sonya and police find the red hybrid car locked in spinning circles with Cartel Lady's bodyguard dead. We later find Cartel Lady naked washing herself down with a pressure washer asking kids to "help her"

I think that covers it.
 
Wasn't the dead guy in the Prius at the end, the guy with Franka throughout the episode? I saw his face, but didn't get that good of a look. Overall great episode. Looking forward to see where this goes this season.
 
BoboBrazil said:
Wasn't the dead guy in the Prius at the end, the guy with Franka throughout the episode? I saw his face, but didn't get that good of a look. Overall great episode. Looking forward to see where this goes this season.
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Yep that was her body guard. Also thought this episode did a great job setting up for the rest of the season. Im curious what went down between the real estate agent and Franka. She killed those people in that house at the beginning of the episode that the real estate agent was trying to sell and left blood and hit marks on his cut out poster.


Edit: im slow but I just realized the opening scene is the aftermath after she met the real estate agent.
 
Lord_Byron28 said:
Yep that was her body guard. Also thought this episode did a great job setting up for the rest of the season. Im curious what went down between the real estate agent and Franka. She killed those people in that house at the beginning of the episode that the real estate agent was trying to sell and left blood and hit marks on his cut out poster.
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I thought it was. Wasn't the scene at the beginning a flash forward? That is what I was thinking anyway. I thought the episode was leading up to that.
 
BoboBrazil said:
I thought it was. Wasn't the scene at the beginning a flash forward? That is what I was thinking anyway. I thought the episode was leading up to that.
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Yeah in between me posting that and you replying I connected that. I was slightly distracted at first with the opening scene so I wasn't paying close attention until a subsequent re-airing that it was Eleanor in the house.
 
Good to see that other people remember Parker Lewis Can't Lose.

I guess I'll have to watch the ending again. I thought that was the Realtor dead in the front seat of the electric car and not her partner. Then again, she was alone in the truck wash depot place so...maybe that's the hot headed partner after all. I guess we'll see a continuation of that washing up scene because it has been one of the more striking images in the promos leading up to this season.

And if I knew Franka was going to be on this show, I had forgotten about it until I saw her name in the credits.

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Quotes: "Many Americans drive hybrids." "And many Americans are gay."
 
ReturnOfTheRAT said:
Good to see that other people remember Parker Lewis Can't Lose.

I guess I'll have to watch the ending again. I thought that was the Realtor dead in the front seat of the electric car and not her partner. Then again, she was alone in the truck wash depot place so...maybe that's the hot headed partner after all. I guess we'll see a continuation of that washing up scene because it has been one of the more striking images in the promos leading up to this season.

And if I knew Franka was going to be on this show, I had forgotten about it until I saw her name in the credits.

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Quotes: "Many Americans drive hybrids." "And many Americans are gay."
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It was definitely her partner dead in the hybrid.
 
- Poniewozik talking with Elwood Reid about using subtitles on The Bridge
Are there advantages to being able to use two languages sort of at the character level? I’m thinking for instance of characters like Marco working on both sides of the border, and maybe see him in one way when he’s in his home element and then another way when he’s in El Paso?

Oh massively, yeah, and vice versa. Marco’s a good character because he passes in both places. And the actor himself, Demian [Bichir] and I talked about this a lot, he changes his demeanor when he’s around gringos. He’s a little more careful with his words. He’s a little more, I don’t want to say dispassionate but he’s not as direct. When you see [Marco] in Spanish he’s much more direct and there’s a sort of real edge to his character there. And he realizes, like we’re trying to play on the border, that he’s a guest over here in America. He feels the Other, he feels different, so he behaves accordingly–and vice versa, when Sonya’s over in Mexico, she’s a stranger in a strange land. They know she doesn’t belong over there because she’s blonde and blue-eyed, so they use the language to either exclude her or sort of try to suck her in by insulting her in Spanish.
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- Daily Beast interview: Diane Kruger on ‘The Bridge’
Back to The Bridge. In the first season, you were somewhat constrained by the trappings of the original Scandinavian series—the hunt for the serial killer—but now, you’re free of that. Is it liberating?

For sure, and I’m sure it is for the writers, as well. I feel like now we’re able to really explore the characters more, as opposed to finding the serial killer. The biggest challenge for everyone was how to follow the original show but also create our own world, and now that we’re done with that storyline we can branch out. The story is much more complex, which makes for a greater challenge. The first few episodes, you try to figure out how this all fits together, and in the second half of the season, everything will come together.

Elwood sent a note out to critics that came off as apologetic for Season 1, admitting that the serial killer through-line was limiting, and explaining how Season 2 is about the more interesting aspect of the show— “exploring the ‘shadow world of the border between El Paso and Juarez.’”

Well, the reality of all of these stories, especially when it comes to the Lost Girls of Juarez, is that we can’t really solve the mystery because no one fully knows what’s going on. On our show, most of our storylines are based on real-life events and real-life people, so we’re trying to shine a light on the situation that’s happening the best way that we can.

The Bridge’s co-showrunner, Meredith Stiehm, left to go back to Homeland. How did her absence affect the show in Season 2?

As far as us actors are concerned, now it’s more one voice, and there’s one person you can approach to get answers from. I think the show benefits generally from a clear vision. As with anything, if you have multiple opinions or multiple tastes, the show goes one direction and then is pulled in another, so we benefit. There’s more coherence in what our characters are.
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Great, great, great, great premiere. Funny, dramatic, sexy and the preview for the rest of the season looks even more exciting.

This almost makes me forgive you for Tyrant FX.
 
Really good premiere. I'm glad the serial killer part is long behind us and we can focus more on the characters/border stuff. I liked a lot of the new seeds planted in the premiere too. Excited to see where they go with some of this stuff.
 
Meh opener. Shame they went for the obvious and had that sex scene. We'll see how this season goes. It seems weeks\month after the end of the 1st, so i'm wondering when are they going to pull out the Marco took/didn't take the deal offered by Fausto.
 
The opener was somewhat slow, but the introduction of Eleanor was interesting. I really want to know what happened in that house with all those dead bodies, and seeing Eleanor washing herself while crying for help.

On the other hand, i really didn't like the sex scene, i mean,
having sex with the brother of your sisters assassin? i think that interacting with the assassins relatives would open some old wounds because it would indirectly make you remember the original incident.
 
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