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

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Why do the producers seem to be getting a free pass on the serial killer storyline? It wasn't perfect in the Swedish series, but it was far better, and they did a really shitty version.

Then they claim they didn't really want to do the storyline, but it was a holdover. If you didn't like the original you either drop it or you fix it. Either way you're 100% responsible for everything that goes into the series.
 
The upcoming preview answered my big question. That was nice to have confirmed.

Hank and Bob's conversation was great. I love the idea of him chuckling about a past that involved 'standing his ground' on a Yamaha while high on meth.

Good to have The Bridge back and have it seemingly refocused on macro and micro border issues.

The opener was somewhat slow, but the introduction of Eleanor was interesting.
I don't think it was particularly slow for the series. That's just their style, a more languid pacing.

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.

This is Sonya. She has no significant problem interacting with the actual killer. The killer's brother ain't no thang.
 
I'm still not feeling the weird 'aspergers' thing, it just seems to be there so they can randomly make a joke about her not getting something or being awkward around a person. Would the show be any less interesting if she was just a competent workaholic?
 
Idk if this is true for everyone but Episode 2 is streaming for me(I have xfinity)

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I thought the premiere was pretty tepid. I know a premiere is supposed to set up all of the storylines for the rest of the season, but I feel like there were just too many balls in the air. I think it might have been better if they had saved Eleanor for the very end and then expanded upon her a bit more in episode 2.

Speaking of Eleanor, I'm not sure if I like how over the top her character seems to be. Her actions served to create some really interesting/crazy visuals, but I think it might've been too much, too soon - the episode opens with her naked, drenched in blood and holding a knife in some gruesome murder house; we find out that she "doesn't like to be touched" right before having some dude's ear sliced off after he spilled tea on her; she kills her bodyguard off screen and then puts his corpse (along with a dog...) in a creepy bloody murder car merry go round thing out in the middle of the desert; and then the episode closes with her naked again, this time washing all of the blood off of herself with a pressure washer...

Like, I think they went just a little overboard with her character.
 
Episode was a little slow, but I'm eager to see where they go from here. Didn't really have many complaints, but nothing particularly great either.
 
New episode tonight:
Ghost of a Flea

A bizarre killing attracts attention on both sides of the border; Frye and Adriana find more than they bargained for with their first lead; Eleanor enlists the help of a young boy.
The episode will run 13 minutes past the hour tonight.
 
How close is this to the original Scandinavian show?

I found that really enjoyable. The main crime story wasn't great at all (in season 1 and 2), but I loved the chemistry between Saga and Martin and thought it was well acted by both.
 
DEA really want Fausto's head

Fausto must live

I really like Fausto as a character on this show.

I hope he's a mainstay.



Unfortunately, “The Bridge” tries so hard to shock us into awareness that it forgets there are other, more humane ways to appeal to our senses. Maybe the show is following the logic of Washington, reasoning that our sense of fear is stronger than our feelings of compassion. If so, it is a depressing illustration of how static the dynamic of immigration enforcement and reform has become that even art does not trust itself to move us.

Yeaaah, I don't really agree with this review at all, but maybe that's just me.
 
Man, tattoo lady is fucking crazy.

Sonya, "would we be having this conversation if I was a guy?" Got him there.

Marco really beat the shit out of that cop, god damn.

DEA agents seem ok so far. More interested in what will happen with Marco and the DA.

Frye and Adriana investigating the drag club was awesome lol. I could totally watch a spinoff of them.

Seems like a split between Hank and Sonya is on the cards for this season.

"Are you an ogre man, or a troll man?" "I like Call of Duty and pussy."

Ah so Fausto and tattoo lady are tied together. That'll be good.

The team is back together :')

Well, that kid wasn't very smart. Good episode overall, I enjoyed it. Preview looked weird.
 
I'm honestly not really feeling this season so far. I like the Kruger/Bichir & Rios/Lillard combinations, but, same as last year, the crime angle just isn't doing it for me.

Yeaaah, I don't really agree with this review at all, but maybe that's just me.

I actually agree with her. It seems to me like they're trying way too hard to be shocking this year.

In the second season of the show, the baroque criminality taking place on both sides of the border in “The Bridge” feels a bit like the new normal. When the news that a Mexican drug lord put in an order to have a dead Drug Enforcement Administration agent taxidermied fails to shock, a show has calibrated something wrong.

Nailed it.
 
Pluses so far:
  • No time wasted yet on Monica Reyes and her tone-ruining, going-nowhere-fast plotline, making the show feel much more cohesive (of course this is going to expire soon).
  • Diane Kruger's asperbergersacting hasn't felt as cringeworthy as it was last year.
  • Kubiac
  • That dog was our nation's greatest hero, and we must bring his murderer to justice. I'm in for the whole season to see this happen.
Minuses:
  • Marco's material doesn't even feel relevant. For a show that comes in with the idea that it will focus on both sides of the border, the Mexico storyline and its characters aren't feeling developed at all. The new district attorney, for example, seems like he could be A Thing, but has not yet reached Thing status. I realize it's early so I'm not feeling my patience tested, but the show's history hasn't exactly given me reason to assume development down the line.
  • Franka Potente, while interesting independently, feels like she's in the wrong show. Not the way she's acting, but the way she's written.
Two episodes in and The Bridge S2 is about as compelling as S1, though I am slightly more hopeful going forward that a grand convergence will finally take place.
 
Watching, hope it's a good one.

Is that Roger Sterling's secretary?

Edit: yes it is.

Edit2: yuck.
 
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