YMMV / The Bridge (US)

• Anti-Climax Boss: The hitman that Fausto hires, "The Chopper," is easily taken out by Marco. Instead, the focus of the scene was Marco rescuing Sonya, who is in a desert-induced delirium.
• Broken Base:
  • Opinions are mixed regarding Diane Kruger's character having Asperger's. A related debate has ensued over whether the writers should be more explicit about this in the show.
  • Marco Ruiz's affair with Charlotte Millwright came across as Out of Character for some viewers, at least at first. Though it was revealed that it's not the first time he's cheated, either on Alma or his first wife.
  • The whole David Tate reveal provoked mixed reactions, especially after the Wham Episode that was "Vendetta." Some felt that after The Reveal, the whole David Tate plotline essentially hijacked the entire show by devoting much less time to the more interesting weird storylines. The creators admitted to trying to get the David Tate storyline out of the way as quickly as possible because that what the main storyline from the original Danish-Swedish Series/{{The Bridge 2011 and because they wanted to open up The Bridge to more possibilities that are beyond the scope of just a strict adaptation.
• Growing the Beard: Come season 2, when the show producers threw off the restraints of following the plot-by-plot approach of The Bridge (2011) and took the story into their own hands.
• Jerkass Woobie: Frye slides into this when he has a tearful breakdown during his Tropaholics Anonymous speech.

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