Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Yva How can you make anything out of something you don't understand? Someone said that "U.S. viewers would not know what to make of seeing Sweden/Denmark cultural clashes" so The Bridge was americanized. Must we, little people from Europe, know all about cultural clashes happening in the Great State to be able to watch any of many Great State productions? Do we really know, and you don't? There is a life beyond U.S. and you should at least try to learn about it. And at the end, you can't take what you claim you don't understand, and make something out of it. But you can always make new CSI. Let's say Dallas. And read subtitles.

bahman-14-148480 Having watched the original (Bron, Danish/Swedish) and its British/French adaptation (The Tunnel), a comparison of the three is unavoidable. It is a compliment to an original story that two adaptations are also highly watchable. On the positive side, adapting the story to the US/Mexican border is well done. The social and cultural tensions and conflicts are convincing. Also, the acting is first rate. Sonya (Diane Kruger) and Marco (Demian Kruger) are first rate actors. On the negative side, this version suffers from two weaknesses, compared to the original and its English/French adaptation. The first and obvious one is the episode near the end (episode 11 of the first season), the final confrontation, which drags on forever, probably to allow a maximum number of commercial breaks. I think everyone watching screams with Marco 'get this over with!'. The other, more fundamental weakness is with the personality of Sonya (Diane Kruger). In all three versions she is 'socially challenged'. This is of course central to the plot. But the way she sees her own relationship with others is for some reasons changed in the US version. Both Sofia Helin (in Bron, the Danish/Swedish original) and Elise Wasserman (Clémence Poésy in The Tunnel, the British/French version) are confident personalities who don't see themselves as being dependent or handicapped. They know they are different, but don't see the difference as a handicap. Sonya, on the other hand, comes across as being deeply unhappy and worried about the way she is. I am puzzled by this change and think it weakens the original idea.

alshwenbear1 YES, I HAVE SEEN THE ORIGINAL! And the biggest flaw of this remake is Diane Kruger's inability, to reenact what Sofia Helin did as Saga Norén, pretty much every other actor in the FX version is acceptable, but I will argue anyone who believes that this is a good recreation of the original concept!Just for your Information this is a dumb down version for unintelligent viewers, if it wasn't for the good acting of Demian Bichir and Ted Levine, this one would belong on the trash bin!We know that Saga has Aspergers Disorder and Sonia besides of being annoying seems to be just mentally challenged, besides, this remake, lacks the finesse that the smart concept and storyline that the Bron/Broen's writers (Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, Anders Rhedin and Fridolin T.S. Nordsø) managed to convey for such a gripping police-drama.If you don't believe me, just watch both versions on a parallel schedule, on twenty hours you'll find yourself as naive for believing that the Bridge is as good as the original! For fifty bucks, at Amazon you will find the truth!

purrlgurrl What is very good about the show:1. Diane Kruger is doing her best work. 2. Demian Bichir. You can't take your eyes off him even when he's only on the periphery of the action. He's that good. 3. The chemistry between Kruger and Bichir. 4. Ted Levine. 5. Matthew Lillard. 6. Annabeth Gish. 7. A great Hispanic cast. 8. Recurring cameos by Lyle Lovett. 9. The context is the real-world tragedy of hundreds of young women going missing in Juarez. 10. A fascinating glimpse at life in US-Mexico border towns.What's not so good:1. The murder in the pilot is still hanging, but I suspect it will resurface. 2. What looked to be a very wrong change in story direction mid-season. However, by the end of the season it seems maybe this several episode shift was to provide additional motivation for Bichir's character. Nevertheless, the plot shift went on for too many episodes and almost tanked season one.Thankfully, Fox has ordered a second season. Here's hoping the producers now give the storyline some serious TLC because this show has enormous potential to be one of the great ones.