Just thought I’d give everybody a heads-up to check out the series premiere of The Bridge tonight at 10pm Eastern on FX.
I don’t know a lot about it other than it’s loosely based on a Danish and Swedish TV show where two police detectives, one from each country, investigate a murderer whose deeds are done in the vicinity of a bridge linking the two countries. In this new FX show, the cops are a Mexican and American, and and so is the bridge.
Sounds like it could be interesting, and the recent stuff coming out of FX gives me hope that it could be really good. So watch or set your DVR, but don’t sweat it too much if you miss it, since they’ll surely be repeating the heck out of it for a week, at least.
I’m watching it now and Sonya is already getting on my nerves not to mention the fact that I’ve just about had it up to the gills with socially inept cop characters.
By the end, I didn’t find Sonya quite as annoying and the empathy she showed to the reporter was frankly pretty surprising. However one thing didn’t make any sense to me.If you’re a vigilante and you want justice for the Juarez girls, why don’t you go after the killer yourself? Especially considering the fact that you can shut down the electrical grid on the bridge of the Americas whenever you want. Also, how are you getting hold of the frozen body of one of those girls for your “demonstration?” Clearly the Mexican govt’s handling of the evidence is sloppy, to be generous, so maybe getting one and putting it on ice isn’t a big deal, but then why wait a year or however long it was?
(I guess I’ll stick to spoilers for now since maybe people are still just looking at this thread who haven’t yet watched, but I think eventually I’ll ask a mod to change the title and indicate open spoilers for the current episode… assuming the thread stays active and someone else doesn’t open another general series thread.)
But this really isn’t a spoiler for anyone who saw the pilot episode:Turned out I had distractions during my viewing, so unless I missed something that invalidates it, maybe the vigilante chose a year-old homicide to demonstrate how nothing was being done.Anyway, I still need to rewatch without multiple distractions, but I thought it was pretty good, considering the rough edges that you often have to expect for pilot episodes. [sub](Opinion subject to change, no powers expressed, implied or inherent.)[/sub]
I missed the first episode - but I am sure I can find a repeat this week to catch up.
BTW, the Hollywood Reporter has an interesting review that mentions something they kind of forgot to mention in the first three episodes, but is kind of important.
I guess you could call it a spoiler of sorts, but it might make the series a little more understandable if you know one little fact.
I don’t think the killer wants justice or vengeance for the girls. I think the killer wants to indict the whole flawed system; to the killer, those particular girls are just an example of a bigger problem, not the entirety of the killer’s crusade. Or at least that’s what I got out of the not-bomb-message.I need to see Sonya do something that, for me, offsets her offputtingness. Otherwise, I can’t understand why the department isn’t turfing her or, at least, putting her in a room where she never, ever, ever interacts with the public. Obviously her boss is protecting her (he mentioned it explicitly) but I need to see why he bothers.
It’s also confusing as to whether or not we’re just being fucked with. Remember that the body, or bottom half we suppose, of either Eva - the girl picked up in the alley in Juaraz by Lyden(?) - or the judge herself, was found in the judge’s car. So if it really is a vigilante that put the ersatz bomb in the reporter’s car and left that message, how is it possible for him NOT to be the same person as the killer. If the body in the car is in fact the judge’s and the vigilante is just mimicking the killer by taking the id so the body really is the judge’s, then I guess we can continue to speculate that there are 2 killers. But I think it might turn out that the body might be Eva’s, in which case it starts to look like the Juarez killer is just getting tired of no one in Mexico playing his game with him and is now upping the ante to involve US law enforcement on the pretext of looking for justice for the dead Juarez girls.
The story does seem complex enough that it could be really good. Of course it’s early days so you never know. I thought the same thing about The Following too though. It does remind me of British murder mysteries like Broadchurch for a recent example and also the AMC series The Killing but with a faster pace (not that I don’t love that show and even Rectify which is almost like watching paint dry).
Living in El Paso, I am torn between wanting to really like it and being put off by cultural inaccuracies…no one here has a strong Texas accent unless they are a very recent transplant (we are culturally closer to Arizona/California than Dallas or Houston)…and most of our police speak Spanish, the vast majority are are Mexican-American, and any detective here on such a case would know the system in Mexico.
Some of my friends are put off or confused by the actress’s portrayal of the lead U.S. detective, but my understanding is she has Asperger’s Syndrome.
I didn’t see the first season of the The Killing so I can’t comment, but I very much liked the second season and the third season seems to be shaping up ok although they did seem to lead us down the primrose path as to one suspect only to then completely leave us hanging as to that person for the past 4 episodes to focus on someone else who I’m convinced in a false lead, so IDK.
I tend to be a sucker for ambiance though. I love the atmosphere they create with the cinematography, the drab costumes and scenery, etc. It’s like being immersed in a viscous, hellish but somehow breathable goo that makes you happy to just be able to move. I’m not sure why I like that but I do. (yes, I know I have issues ). It’s similar to what I loved about Rubicon and what I love about Rectify, but qualitatively very different in each of those cases. Hard to explain.
I didn’t mention this earlier but it seems that the disbelief suspension started in the first minute of the show. Is there a bridge where there wouldn’t have been a human component right on the border line under those circumstances??
I liked it, but only because I read this thread before I watched the episode. I think it will start annoying me though if they don’t tone down the Asperger’s “affects”. I just can’t imagine anyone sending someone out with her social disabilities to inform someone of their wife’s death.
). It’s similar to what I loved about Rubicon and what I love about Rectify, but qualitatively very different in each of those cases. Hard to explain.