Bridge Cancelled By FX After Two Seasons

Bridge Cancelled By FX After Two Seasons

I watched season two of the USA/Mexican version, God knows why, probably because I have been watching the excellent Swedish/Danish and British/French Versions (Bron/Broen and The Tunnel, respectively), but I felt it was almost a complete waste of my time. I usually like Demian Bichir, but he did so much mumbling in this series that he made Michael Parks seem like an elocution teacher. And he managed to mumble in two different languages! They at least managed to subtitle his Spanish, so I actually understood that better than his English, which was basically just garbled whispering. Even fuckin' Popeye would have told him to stop muttering.

The authors had a solid premise and a good plot in season one, which had closely followed the two acclaimed European series, but they used season two to wander off in a new direction which made little use of the chemistry between the mismatched police partners from different countries. In essence they lost the raison d'etre of the show, and the series became pretty much another same-old-same-old generic TV cop show, except with more mumbling.

What can you say about a series where the most interesting character is played by Shaggy from the Scooby-Doo movie?