The Bridge is back!!

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The Bridge is back on Saturday 4th January on BBC 4!
Only for a double bill though but better than nothing.

I've also heard her called So-ga.

Very confused with the Yes = Nay? and lots of Ay for No??

Can't work it out at all.

Now I want to appeal to all of your Rasmus-forgivers to stop seeking his redemption.
You know he doesn't deserve it.
Let him be impaled upon a spike of Hubris of his own making! Let him get what he deserves the dreadful sneaky disrespected of Saga the Great!

saga + sister and munchausen by proxy.

Could be that Saga just knows everything like the Mortician (Hello…!) has obvs realised.

Hello I think is hej (hey), goodbye seems to be hej or even hej hej!
Yes is ja and no is nej.

I still don't know which character I prefer Sarah Lund or Saga. For a while I found her - well, robotic - but thought it sad when Saga commented that people think she's immune to being hurt. She doesn't act the way she does to deliberately piss people off.

Oh I prefer Saga. No question. Sarah is just so serious, nothing else. At least Saga has an unusual personality and is sometimes hilarious.

mrsjavier loving your forthright posts. They make me snort

Oh, but I love Lund. It's the fact that she's so intelligent but doesn't give a damn about how she looks or what anyone thinks of her.

Swedish for Dummies; (hoping someone can do Danish for me)
Hej or Hej Hej ( swedes like to say things twice) is Hello
Ja is Yes
Nej is no
Tack is thank you
Bron is the Bridge
Anything else we need to know?:)

Lund and Saga both amazing. No way I could choose a favourite.

How many episodes is this series?

I'm dreading the end already,nothing compares .

10 episodes so only 2 weeks to go.:(

Can't believe I have only just found this thread!

I adore saga. It was hilarious when she was having a solitary fumble with her mil behind her.
Go Saga

Only four left

I don't much believe that someone like Saga could get to be a detective interviewing witnesses etc being the way she is in the first place... Either she would have learned to be a tad more humanistic or not got to be a Porsche driving free - wheeling detective let loose on the public.

She's so bright that she doesn't need social skills, mrswarbouys.

Don't the Danes also use hej and maybe farvel, and tak means thanks but I don't know what please is.

The eyeball to eyeball confrontation with MIL maybe wasn't what Martin meant when he said talk about where she lives, etc.

Yes mrswarbouys. But this is television, of course she could get to detective level.

They seem to waer quite casual clothes even at relatively senior levels. I haven't seen much evidence of the UK's 'corporate' uniform of blac trousers and jackets.

Joining this late, but glad to have found somewhere to discuss The Bridge!

I am enjoying Series 2 even more than the last one. It's a lot less grisly (so far at least)... I think too many recent crime dramas rely on shocking the viewer with ever more elaborate scenarios of prolonged torture/murder and blood & guts. Series 2 is more about the characters and the intellectual puzzle of whodunnit - and it also has a lot of laugh-out-loud humour which I don't remember from last time.

I do think Saga's Asperger's is being overplayed this series... surely she would have learned some social skills by now?! But I'm glad they are showing some of her vulnerabilities, instead of just portraying her as cold or unfeeling. Despite her difficulties in connecting with people, she shows a lot of intuitive insight (e.g. noticing Pernille chasing Martin, and the nanny etc.) which makes her a great detective. I loved some of the questions she's asked Martin - just so wonderful in her honesty!

Bodil is creepy isn't she...

CurrerBell, I think that Martin is much more forthcoming about giving Saga advice about how to behave in situations, I don't remember him doing that in the first series. She isn't going to know how to behave unless someone explains it to her.

I think it is her Asperger's that enables her to see things differently, more objectively (e.g. nanny).

Less grisly CurrerBell but still a high body count. I thought this week, Saga looks so at home when talking to the pathologist and isn't squeamish around corpses but evidently preferred to go into police work, (I know it's tv and pretend) so she herself didn't think her personality would be any less suited to dealing with the public than anyone else's.

Yy definitely more humour this series ("Only 4 inches!" etc).

So it's television lurkingaround ? Thanks for that. My point is - despite Saga's brilliance and her analytical genius she would not be put on the front line like that to question witnesses etc, where subtlety and human empathy would yield far greater results. I know it's TV but it still has to be believable. I agree with CurrerBell that the writers have made too much of it. Also I don't find the "baddies" particularly intimidating or scary. Why didn't the guy who was looking after his little brother just pull out and go to the police? I mean they're not exactly the IRA are they? Just a bunch of daft students.

Gosh mrswarbouys I didn't mean to offend, I was making a wry comment.

I agree with all you say. Yes, there is no way on earth she would reach that level IRL. And as I said at the beginning of the thread, they have really highlighted her Asperger's in this series, I'm not keen on it either. Despite its flaws I still love this series.

Ahhh, so hard to choose between Lund and Saga.
But for me I admire Lund with passion but I love Saga with something else, not carnal lust but a kind of l

Love, nevertheless.
They are both rounded characters with strengths and weaknesses not your set dressing cartoon cliche chicks we've seen so much of.
I try not to seriously challenge the plot, apart from for comedy discussion. If challenged, the plot collapses pretty quickly.
The comedy is wonderful as is the weird intimacy of work colleagues. I love Martin putting Rasmus in his place.
I think there is going to be series three but will the protagonists survive long enough for some odd coupling?

Oh yes mrsjavier. I agree re the cartoom cliche thing. I tried to watch the USA version of The Killing. DH watched it, I thought it was awful. USA Sarah was so one-dimensional (miserable) I couldn't bear it. I love the roundedness of the original european characters. And yes, there are lots of holes to pick at in the plot, I love it nonetheless and am very happy to overlook them.