The Bridge
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The Bridge, Danish: Broen; Swedish: Bron is a crime drama involving police from Sweden and Denmark when a body is found on a bridge connecting Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden.
At first the Danish police officer Martin Rohde is happy to let the Swedish officer Sofia Helin, have the case, but then it turns out the body was cut in half and while the top half belongs to a Swedish politician, the bottom half belongs to a Danish prostitute.
The two officers of have different personalities and of course clash. Martin Rohde is married and has several children. He's just had surgery to keep from having more children. Sofia is unmarried, no children. She's not really a people person. She seems to lack empathy.
There are two other subplots which I'm not sure yet how they connect to the main story. In one a man needs a new heart and his wife is mercenary about getting one. The other a family is being evicted from their apartment due to owing back rent. Presumably in later episodes these people will be connected to either the killer or the victims.
Dialogue is apparently a mixture of Danish and Swedish. At one point Martin speaking to Swedish officers has to repeat himself, slower to be understood. Apparently he's speaking Swedish too fast and with a Danish accent. DVDs have English subtitles.
Second and third seasons have different cases and the third a different Danish officer. Netflix has the first two on DVD. Apparently there's going to be a fourth.
An American remake, which I won't bother with is set on a bridge between the US and Mexico.
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Re: The Bridge
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The American version is goo GuybrushThreepwood. :-)
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Re: The Bridge
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The American version is goo GuybrushThreepwood. :-) As is usually the case. Stick with the British, Swedish or Danish version of any movie if available.
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I liked the American remake too, but they didn't renew it.
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I think Winfrey meant "good". Ana Oops, and I thought she was spot on. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I do think that the Europeans do a much better job.
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10/13/16 08:33 AM
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lol.....yes I meant good....
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Three episodes in and another sub plot. Everytime somebody knew is introduced I say to myself "maybe that's the killer". One of these times I'll be right. Now I have to wait for next netflix disc to find out what the morse code message is. Ah just check, its on the way be her Saturday.
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OH good grief, there's a French/UK version too, "The Tunnel". According to someone at internet movie database they all have the same story in season 1, except the American add an additional plotline,
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I think this is going to end up like Broadchurch. The killer is related to one of the investigators.
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According to people posting at the internet movie database its actually not as easy for Danish speaking people and Swedish speaking people to understand each other in the real word. In fact that is a video interview in which Sofia Helin (Swedish) talks about not being able to understand Kim Bodnia (Danish) because he speaks Danish too fast. In a later video they both say they learned over time to understand each other. And they both actually speak English as well. Sofia thinks Saga has aspergers syndrome. Which is apparently what the creator of the series had intended though he never came out and said so to any of the cast. Sofia Helin was told how her character should behave but not why.
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Just two episodes to go in the first season. And unless their stringing the audience along they finally have a suspect. And it looks like I was probably wrong in my surmise before.
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I'll see that last two episodes next week then start on second season. The police have their suspect but there are several other people that seem suspicious to me. There's the guy Saga picked up at the bar who now after already having slept with her wants to actually date her. There's the guy who keep showing up at Martin's wife's job supposedly to sell her company software. For awhile I suspected Martin's son. Possible of course those guys are red herrings and maybe will show up in season 2. I think Martin's marriage is in trouble.
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DVD containing last two episodes supposed to have arrived November 2nd hasn't. Other DVD sent same day did. I reported it lost and asked for a replacement. This has happened couple times before. Sometimes Netflix gets the original disk back shortly after I reported it missing because the envelops are designed so that if customer address is ripped out Netflix's address is there so Post Office returns it to Netflix. Sometimes the lost disk appears in the next day or two and the second disk follows shortly after.
Netflix has gone full circle. When I started DVDs came from Kansas City. Then they opened an office in Omaha. I got the DVDs faster. Now they've apparently closed the Omaha office because DVDs come from KC again, and it takes an extra day.
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I just started episode 9 and if the police are right I now know which man is the killer and which is a red herring.
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I'm done, with first series anyway. Poor August, he didn't deserve to die. There's a behind the scenes video. Sofia says she doesn't understand Saga. She says Saga in some ways is smarter than her but her lack of social understanding is hard to play.
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I thought Saga did an amazing job in this series. Tatiana Maslany is my favorite in Orphan Black but the Saga character was awesome.
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