History Series / TheBridgeUS

* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Just what is up with Sonya isn't specified, but it appears to be UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome-style autism. WordOfGod, however, states that it is Asperger's, and the actress even has Alex Plank (creator of autism community website Wrong Planet, and someone who has Asperger's himself) as her advisor.
** Dex, the teen who encounters Eleanor in the streets and bikes away. Has to be reminded by his mother to concentrate at the police station.
** Jaime, the dayworker that Eleanor hires, appears to have some sort of mental disability. The other dayworkers say he "had an accident."

* NotSoDifferentRemark: When Sonya opens up about how hard her AmbiguousDisorder makes it for her to read people, Gustavo reminds her that he's the one who brought her flowers she didn't want.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Daniel Frye makes it through the end of the season, while his counterpart Daniel Ferbé from Series/BronBroen is gassed by the killer at the end of the seventh episode.]]

''The Bridge'' is the American remake of a Swedish/Danish joint production also called ''[[Series/BronBroen The Bridge]]'' (''Bron'' in Swedish and ''Broen'' in Danish), also remade as the British/French production ''Series/TheTunnel''.

* MoodWhiplash: The hilarious coke and {{Music/Rush}} -fueled two-person party between Frye and his sober companion Greg comes quickly to a halt when Greg crushingly realizes that he threw away 5 years of hard-earned sobriety.

* AbsenteeActor: Thomas M. Wright missed three episodes and Annabeth Gish missed one episode in the first season, despite receiving billing for every episode. They also are absent from the first two episodes of season 2.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge:
** [[spoiler:David Tate puts Gus inside a septic tank where he slowly drowns to death.]]
** [[spoiler:The teenager Kyle in season 2's "Ghost of a Flea" and "Sorrowsworn," in which Eleanor quietly kills him in a storage locker and then dumps his body in a drum filled with bleach.]]

* RealityEnsues:
** Hector's murder of Steven Linder's neighbor and the abduction of the migrant woman Maria by the Bridge Butcher has brought unwanted law enforcement attention to Fausto Galván's operations.
** Fausto's revenge against the teenage wannabe gangbangers who stole his cargo (leaving his calling card with their bodies) and his to reign in Captain Robles' police from [[spoiler:killing the Chihuahua state prosecutor]] has put Sebastian Cerisola's deal with [[spoiler:the Mexican Attorney General's (less cartel violence in Juárez in exchange for shutting out the DEA) on thin ice.]]
** Doesn't matter how badass he's been, once he's in prison David Tate is as easily fucked as anyone else.
** Trying to take revenge on a highly-experienced CorruptCop with just a ''rock''? You get shot. Just ask Steven Linder.
** What happens to you when you give your bosses in Langley nothing but bullshit and bloodshed on the northern side of the border? They disavow you, label you as a rogue agent, and put you on a kill list. Ask Buckley.

* YourCheatingHeart: Marco sleeps with Charlotte. Later, Alma gets revenge by screwing her boss. [[spoiler: It turns out that Marco has also slept with Jill Tate, the wife of his partner David Tate aka Kenneth Hasting, and this comes back to haunt him.]]

''The Bridge'' is a television drama that premiered on the Creator/{{FX}} network on July 10, 2013. Creator/DianeKruger and Demián Bichir play Sonya Cross and Marco Ruiz, American and Mexican police officers (respectively) who must work together when two halves of two bodies--that is, the top half of one body and the bottom half of a different body--are placed on the Bridge of the Americas between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. The two jurisdictions must cooperate because the body parts were placed precisely on the border between the two countries.

* AbortedArc: The whole tunnel-under-the-Millwright-ranch thing is never mentioned again in Season 2.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Just what is up with Sonya isn't specified, but it appears to be UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome-style autism. WordOfGod, however, states that it is Asperger's, and the actress even has Alex Plank (creator of autism community website Wrong Planet, and someone who has Asperger's himself) as her advisor.

* DeadGuyOnDisplay: After Galvan's sicario is killed by Linder, Galvan has the rest of the cartel stab the body all over with carving knives and hangs it from a telephone pole. Nobody dares to cut it down.

* DealWithTheDevil: Marco makes an implicit deal with [[MeaningfulName Fausto Galván]] to have David Tate killed, although he wants to do it himself in "The Crazy Place."

* DisproportionateRetribution: In the Season 2 opener "Yankee," an intern at a bank accidentally spills tea on Eleanor's dress. [[spoiler: She has her enforcer take his ear as punishment for "not listening."]]

* DoYouWantToCopulate: In "Calaca", Sonya goes to a bar looking to get laid. A guy at the bar offers her a drink and she declines, failing to understand this social cue. Then after he walks away she walks over to him and says "Do you want to have sex with me?".

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: For our two detectives in 'Pilot,' their respective response when faced with the dilemma of allowing an emergency ambulance to drive over the crime scene.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Galvan, as TheDon of a Mexican cartel, has killed plenty of people, but can't understand why someone would enjoy the act.

* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler: Alma and the girls are locked into a creepy cabin in the middle of the desert with a live grenade. Later, David Tate kidnaps Gus and locks him into a septic tank that's slowly being filled with water.]]

* IronicEcho: A nonverbal version: Sonya, oblivious to the inappropriateness, changes her shirt in the bullpen in the first episode; she does the same thing in the sixth episode, but this time it's because she's gotten [[spoiler:Gina's]] blood all over it.

* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: In the pilot the serial killer asks why the murder of the white judge is such a big deal while no one cares about the piles of bodies in Ciudad Juárez.

* RedHerring: The Bridge presents a few suspicious folk who seem like the Bridge Butcher.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: Comes up in a conversation between Agent Mackenzie and Agent Buckley of the CIA about sniffing too close to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Grupo Clio and Sebastian Cerisola]].

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In the wake of [[spoiler:Eva murdering one of her attackers]], she and Linder skip town and begin one against all those who wronged her.

* TooDumbToLive: We first meet Gina when she gets into trouble and has to be picked up by her father. Instead of going home with him, she crosses the border into Mexico and wanders around for a bit before sitting outside a random apartment and then going upstairs with the tenant when he invites her in (he's a complete stranger to her, mind you), although to be fair, her dad isn't exactly father of the year, and her mother was not available). So she isn't exactly the brightest bulb to begin with. Then later she becomes a witness to the murder of her father, and while knowing the killer is still out there, she runs away from the police. Where is she running to? [[spoiler: We'll never know because she gets killed very quickly after she goes on the run.]]

* VillainsOutShopping: Graciela is having a pedicure when Fausto meets her. Also Fausto is seen literally shopping for clothes and playing pool. Eleanor engages in this as well. All three are still very intimidating.

** Fausto seems to love this trope. [[His dead son's grave is decorated with the preserved head of his killer.]]

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* FamilyFriendlyStripClub: Daniel Frye is at one in the flashback that opens "Vendetta". Hilariously, the sign outside the BikiniBar says "Totally Nude".

* BikiniBar: Daniel Frye is at one in the flashback that opens "Vendetta". Hilariously, the sign outside the BikiniBar says "Totally Nude".

''The Bridge'' is a television drama that premiered on the Creator/{{FX}} network on July 10, 2013. Creator/DianeKruger and Demián Bichir play Sonya Cross and Marco Ruiz, American and Mexican police officers (respectively) who must work together when two halves of two bodies--that is, the top half of one body and the bottom half of a different body--are placed on the Bridge of the Americas between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. The two jurisdictions must cooperate because the body parts were placed precisely on the border between the two countries.

** The federal agent (Arliss Frome, played by Timothy Bottom) at the end of Season 1 is never seen again after making plans with Charlotte to capture Fausto Galván. In the middle of Season 3, Agent Mackenzie tells Charlotte that he was [[ReassignedToAntarctica reassigned to Latvia]].