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     Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.61.68 |
BBC4 are now showing another Scandinavian crime serial called The Bridge. I watched part one last night and it were reet good like they say oop north. It started when the lights on the huge bridge between Sweden and Denmark were hacked and switched off. While they were off a dead body was laid neatly on the bridge at the exact border point betweeen the two countries. Several surprising twists later - which I won't spoil - it finished with an extraordinarily tense scene with an attempted murder. I'm certainly taping the rest of this series. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.185.225.55 |
Yep - good so far, judging by the first two episodes. I was a bit unsure about the "good looking blonde detective who wears leather trousers and drives a Porsche" as that seemed a bit Hollywoody, but they did at least mention the Porsche in the story... | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
I liked "The Bridge". I also liked "Those Who Kill". Something about the grim Scandanavian weather and grainy atmosphere. Cheers Terry | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.35.236.200 |
The victim looked very like the dectective. I bet she did it. ;) I thought it was going to be about a woman who moves near a bridge and hears about all these suicides off it and tries to investigate. But it looks like it isn't. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.35.236.200 |
Detective stories are very 'big' now, aren't they? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.59.115.60 |
Personally I find it can also help if I don't recognise any actors as it seems more real to me, somehow. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.35.236.200 |
Yes. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.40.254.221 |
This is true, Mick. Guest stars in series often throw a spanner in the verisimilitude of a piece for me. I'm enjoying The Bridge. How well I'd enjoy the same tale told in the same way in a UK setting, I don't know. Not quite the same if the body had been found on the bridge into Wales or in the middle of the Channel Tunnel... |