Review of The Bridge

The Bridge (2011–2018)
5/10
Decent but a bit ridiculous.
31 October 2018
The first seasons was decent, i'm a big fan of Kim Bodnia, wonderful actor.

Saga is the female protagonist, an expert on everything, extremely socially competent or absolutely clueless socially (*if* it makes the situation funny).

We're supposed to believe Martin complements Saga, but he's not good at anything really. He's not fast, he can't fight. The one thing he can do is tell Saga "that's not socially acceptable, you need to do it like this.." (if it makes the scene funny or awkward).

If there's something good to say it's not exactly as political as most/all series in Sweden are, that can get very tiring and especially if you don't agree with rich and privileged people's political ideas.

The premise here is quite interesting, but Saga is unfortunately not that great or believable as a character due to the poor and often rather childish writing. The villains are like straight out of a TV series aimed at kids / teens. I would have preferred less "epic" plots that seems to be inspired by american 80-90's action movies and instead have the darker more down to earth and gritty crime/thriller that Scandinavia usually does really well.
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