The Bridge: The First Two Episodes

My wife and I saw some previews for The Bridge  and set up our DVR to record it. We finally got around to watching those episodes this past weekend. If you have not started watching this show, do so now.

When the body of a woman is dumped on a bridge at the US-Mexico border crossing--half in the US and half in Mexico--a tale of cross-border murder, cultures, and serial killings. Detective Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger) and Detective Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir) must work together. Cross has Asperger's with its characteristic social awkwardness (she tells the husband of the murdered woman bluntly that she was dead at a certain time). Ruiz is a good cop in a corrupt Juarez police department (our first encounter with his captain [Juan Carlos Cantu] demonstrates what Ruiz is up against, for one of the participants in the captain's card game is a wanted man, whose wanted poster appears in the Juarez police department).

As the story unfolds, we encounter unground tunnels, coyotes, and a sadistic murderer. The show is grim, though it is leavened with Cross's idiosyncracies and Ruiz's go-with-the-flow manner. I'm looking forward to what the rest of the season offers.