The Bridge season 2 premiere, anyone?

[Ilsa]

The addition of Franka Potente as the careful, brutal drug cartel middleman is brilliant. I look forward to a showdown between her and Sonya.

[Little Star]

1. Have it on DVR.....

have to wait for my friend who wants to watch it with me She better get her butt ready soon or I'm watching without her.

[Iris]

2. I just finished the latest ep (7? 8?) This show is amazing.

[a kennedy]

3. Yup, just another outstanding show.....

Love it.

[eissa]

4. I started watching mid-way this season, and I'm so hooked

I was channel surfing and suddenly recognized Damian Bichir on my screen. I absolutely loved him as Fidel in the movie "Che." I started watching, and was a little confused at first with the plot, but I think I'm up to speed now. I signed up to Hulu and watched all of season 1, but unfortunately season 2 is not available, so I missed the first few episodes. I'm hoping FX will run a marathon eventually so I can watch it in its entirety. The show is absolutely intoxicating; brilliant acting, and great storylines.

[yallerdawg]

5. I've watched it from the start...

but, is it just me, or is this pretty much violence porn?

I mean, from the start of this season it is just getting more and more vile. It may be appropriate for the unimaginable violence and barbaric cartel/gang-associated murders we know have been occurring in Mexico over the years, but this show has really been going into...well, just about as sick as you can get.

I'm still watching, and I hope to discover some redeeming value as it goes along. We'll see.

[Ilsa]

6. It's very dark and sometimes hard to watch.

But I've watch since its beginning and can't give it up.

I've visited El Paso, before Juarez turned into hell-on-earth. It was beautiful. No way I'd go back now.

[Silver Gaia]

7. It's not as bad as some others in regard to violence.

I'd say that Spartacus was violence porn, and currently, so is The Strain, IMO (or The Walking Dead... or True Blood). This is mild in comparison. I have to agree that is is a violent show, especially when compared to broadcast TV, but this is cable, where they can--and do--get away with much more. I like the actors and the main characters on this show, so I keep watching.

[yallerdawg]

8. It may be more mental...

than gratuitous for me. Some of the scenarios this season have just been up-the-ante disturbing.

One of the major characters has mentioned the psycho violence has crossed the border (I don't know which way it went) so maybe this is 'the bridge'?

Anyway, it's still good TV, not your typical cop show, so I still likey!

[Silver Gaia]

9. Yeah, it's definitely disturbing!

The one that creeps me out the most this season is Eleanor Nacht. That is one wacko woman! She is so cold and calculating, not much humanity there. A female character as a "hit woman" is unique, though, so it's an interesting twist.

[yallerdawg]

10. And the father issue!

OMG, that is all wicked creepy.

And now enters "The Chopper"!

This is not going to end well, is it?

[Silver Gaia]

11. Well, based on how Season 1 ended... probably not.

[yallerdawg]

12. *spoiler* Writer's fail.

What the hell happened?

The "Chopper" line was a road to nowhere, and doesn't have an ounce of credibility. This really bad man and vicious killer spent the show digging a hole? Some guy at the lamest biker bar on earth knows exactly where to go in the middle of the desert, and we have saving the damsel in distress with a single pistol shot? If this is violence porn, that was the worst money shot ever!

I am not a critic, just general observation of how the show occasionally just fizzles out potential horrific storylines. This may be deliberate, or accidental, I can't say.

The rest of the story went to all goes wrong, much more familiar territory.

However, this episode makes me wonder if the writers know something we don't know yet?

[Silver Gaia]

13. Yeah, the Chopper storyline

was dumb. (I couldn't figure out why in hell he was digging the hole FIRST, but now I guess it was all so they could drag it out and let her be rescued. Really stupid move on the badass killer dude's part, though.) I figure the whole point was to give Sonia a reason to trust Marco again. Her whole world just fell apart--everyone she trusted turned out to be--in her opinion--just scumbags, even Hank! So, maybe Marco has redeemed himself just a little with her, and maybe her view of human nature has matured a little. What other point could there have been to that whole fiasco?

I'm not sure what you're hinting at about what the writers may know that we don't, but... hey, I think we are starting to know what that first scene in the S2 premiere was all about. Carnage galore in that scene.

[yallerdawg]

14. The writers may know...

not being renewed? That would change quality and direction of story?

[Silver Gaia]

15. Ah, OK. Well, we'll see...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. I haven't watched the U.S. version, but Hulu Plus has the original Swedish-Danish version,

which I liked a lot. I was originally drawn to it by the fact that I have crossed the five-mile bridge featured in the series, but I stayed on for the complex plot and characters.

So far, only the first season is available, but that's ten episodes.

[yallerdawg]

17. I had heard this was originally European.

I don't know how the US-Mexican border compares to Sweden-Denmark. We have a lot of issues I don't think they have in Scandinavia. Certainly this would be fictional over there, but for us just another day for psychos and mass-murderers? Must have added a new dimension to the story.

There have been several "foreign" series recently. The "Red Riding" series, "Top of the Lake" from New Zealand, and of course "The Millennium Series Girl w/ Dragon Tattoo, etc.&quot Really intriguing, involved stories.

"The Bridge" sounds like another. I'll have an eye out for it.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Hulu Plus has a lot of European and British series available

I'm not crazy about the commercials, but I love the content.

The plot of the Scandinavian series has to do with an anonymous terrorist who threatens various individuals unless his demands (seemingly for good causes, like the environment or hunger) are met.