The Bridge....

[pastafreak]

I'm on the edge of my seat here.

[ferlew]

What is it?

[pastafreak]

You're late! It just ended... It was a ten part Scandinavian police drama...very good. Still on iPlayer I believe.

[Just-Jane]

What an ending, what a brilliant series. Can't wait for series 3. At least, having seen Sofia and Kim on breakfast TV, we can safely assume Martin will be back. Till then, Saturday nights won't be the same.

[zebo]

Excellent series and the loose ends set up a series 3, who shot Gertrude for example and the Martin situation, I was so shocked that she shopped him though. I can start on all the Borgen episodes I have stacked up though a new Belgian series is being trailled.

[Colmc54]

Look away for a second and you miss the subtitles and lose the plot. Also when it's on it's a losing battle trying to stay awake for Match of the Day to come on. Furthermore we all know all the actors speak perfect English so why don't they make a voiceover version for us ignorant monoglot Brits so we can hear the dialogue while we're opening our next can of Danish lager?

Full marks for the first TV shot of an actor masturbating while his sister who has cancer is getting into bed! Full marks too for inventing a virus that replicates in red blood cells which is scientifically laughable because RBCs have no DNA so no virus can multiply there!

But full marks for being different and thus for jaded cynics like me surprisingly watchable.

What was the bit at the end with the coffee cup in the bag? Can we look forward to the blonde nymphomaniac sociopath visiting Martin in prison in the next series, looking for the kind of exisistential redemption from him that he was seeking when he went to confront his own son's murderer in prison?

Bridges eh! Seems like they are almost fractionally as significant as Channel tunnels are to us British who know that soon whatever British used to be will disappear.

[rockfordill]

The morning after the night The Bridge II ended. Brilliant show but wasn't
thrilled by the ending - who shot Gertrude while she was making her
final video tape - is there an inside mole and surely Martin will be back?

[tiggerblue10]

I was on the edge of my seat too Pasta. Can't wait for series 3.

[wendilla]

Excellent script writing . Just a shame it was subtitled..

[pastafreak]

I suspect the cost of doing voiceovers is prohibitive...and the UK would not be the only country that would "need" it. Besides...you need to concentrate...not a bad thing. ;-)
I wasn't really Saga shopped Martin...in spite of admitting he was her only friend. She sees things very much in black and white.
And Colmc54...why refer to Saga ( if that is who you are referring to )in such nasty terms. Obviously you do not understand her. Its known that she probably is on the Asbergers spectrum.

[Mrsspagnoli57]

Saga's actions were perfectly reasonable based upon her personality. Thank goodness it isn't dubbed-if people can't cope with subtitles they should just wait for the inevitable American remakes-they will be inferior but in English. Excellent series and beautifully acted.

[boxtops]

Colm obviously didn't "get" it - no need to spoil it for the rest of us, though!

We've just watched yesterday's episodes as we were out last night. Brilliant - another cliffhanger ending. Saga 9in her mind) didn't have any choice about shopping Martin - she doesn't know how to prevaricate or not to be brutally honest. Excellent - can't wait for #3!

[Ken4155]

Absolutely brilliant series and thankfully not dubbed. And, as for the ending, we don't NEED to know who shot Gertrud. Unless that is the plot for the third series, if we knew who shot her, we would then need to know what happened to the killer. Believe it or not, some crimes do go unsolved. signed, the REAL 'Jack The Ripper'

[zebo]

I far prefer subtitles to dubbing, I find the audio and the lips not being in synch very off-putting, a bit like when the sound and the visual don't match up.
Does anyone have any idea for who shot Gertrude? Stenberg?

[hellywelly4]

I think we aren't meant to know as this could be possibly the base of the plot for the next series.
I wasn't sure whether Gertrud and Oliver were working together or whether it was a coincidence they were both involved. Also, I think there's something unfinished concerning the relationship between the couple who were not getting on - he bought her a boob job for her birthday. His wife went 'thoughtful' when the name of a company was mentioned - was it his company, something chemicals. Sorry, can't express what I mean. She was in charge of the Summit meeting. I thought he might play a bigger part than he did; as I say, perhaps next series.
Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wondered how Saga knew that Martin had disposed of the coffee cup in that specific bin, though.

[Rosie29]

Helly - I was just going to post on that very thing - the coffee cup. Superb series in every respect but the coffee cup thing was implausible. Saga didn't know that Martin took coffee to Jens did she? And for an experienced cop like Martin not to have destroyed the evidence more thoroughly is a bit unlikely.
But I loved the series - and hope for more.

[tiggerblue10]

Saga sees into things that others may not see, probably to do with the Aspergers. Martin had not been seen for a while and when he did show up she remembered later on seeing him with the coffee cup, so went looking to see if any of the vials were missing. Martin did admit to her after his wife ended it that Jens was still in his head.

[Rosie29]

Yes Tigger I remember now - I didn't really connect about the scene with the vials. Saga was so very brilliantly acted and so believable . I found the last episode heartbreakingly sad. She had to "shop" Martin because that was how she was. Even though she had told him that he was her real friend.

[hellywelly4]

Where did she see him with the coffee cup? I can't remember seeing that.

[tiggerblue10]

Outside the Hilton where Viktoria was staying. I think!

[pastafreak]

It's definitely a series that can be watched again,as more of its subtleties will then be seen. I think its easy to miss bits when your reading sub titles...but I'd not want dubbing either.