In honor of Breaking Bad airing their final episodes beginning this Sunday and my love for the freshman show, The Bridge, we’re kicking off a new weekly segment that poses the question, “Would you rather?” It is spoilerific and draws on events, characters, and experiences found in two shows-movies-comics-whatever-medium-we-choose-to-compare, so […]
The Bridge: Maria of the Desert Recap
The Bridge continues to masterfully weave different, seemingly unrelated, storylines together this week with the episode “Maria of the Desert.” We pick up with Charlotte, who is overseeing her ranch hand bury Rio, the dead horse from the last episode. Obviously anxious about this new turn of events, she tells […]
The Bridge: Rio Recap
The deaths from last week come back to haunt Sonya and Marco this week, when they discover that one woman survived the poisoned water shrine. Her name is Maria and she’s been duct taped to stakes in a non-descript place in the desert. A live feed is set up on […]
The Bridge: Calaca Recap
With the second episode of The Bridge, it’s clear we’re going to be looking at this show through a wide lens. To me, it’s reminiscent of Lost with the sweeping stories and the interwoven characters. But unlike Lost, it seems like they won’t be delaying the gratification of answers for […]
The Bridge: Pilot Recap
FX hit it out of the park with this adaptation of a series that was originally set on a bridge between Sweden and Denmark. By moving the series to the Mexican-American border for American viewers, it brings in all sorts of politics and cultural clashes into the mix. In the […]