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weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about, websites, movies, documentaries, television
shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time. Be assured that these reviews will be
generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come
Monday.” This is subject to change,
however. In fact, I would be most
derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while. For rants promote change, and change can be
good—right? Therefore, since good is
generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel
universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being
something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).
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Arlynda
and I finally took the time to watch the first episode of [The Bridge] on FX
yesterday afternoon, and it left us rather frustrated. For there were several elements to the show
that has us quite intrigued, but there is one glaring error in judgment that
made us both want to never see another episode.
Yeah,
I am about to upset a fair amount of people.
For what we considered to be a glaring error in judgment about The
Bridge has to do with them having one of the lead characters (arguably THE lead
character) be a not all that high-functioning (in our opinion) autistic lady.
The
character I speak of is the lead detective on the American side, Sonya Cross,
who has [Asperger Syndrome], which makes much about the show all the more
edgier. For she has absolutely no
empathy for victims, nor time for anything other than what she is focused upon.
No,
I am not one who would have such people locked away in institutions, but there
are all sorts of important stuff they could be doing without having to interact
all that much with others. In a
real-life situation, a Det. Sonya Cross would better serve as a valued member
of the forensics team. For one of the
basic skills to being a good detective in the field is knowing how to interact
with people, and a detective with a cold demeanor can make an adversary out of
someone who would be very cooperative with someone much more likable.
Alas,
methinks what is going on with Det. Cross may harken back to the attitude of a
former police chief in Los Angeles. For
when confronted during a press conference with a question about why so many
police officers under his command are so rude in the execution of their duties,
he explained that a police officer is on the street to keep the peace—not make
friends. By the way, this was around the
same time as the [Rodney King riots].
Pure coincidence—right?
Okay,
maybe some filler on The Bridge may now be in order. For it is basically about the tensions between
America and Mexico at the border crossing between [El Paso, Texas] and [Ciudad Juarez,Chihuahua].
It
is an area that I am personally very familiar with. In fact, my dad even worked out of El Paso
for a little while during the middle 60s, but it is mostly from my trucking
days that I remember the most about the El Paso side of the border.
Nonetheless,
there are a couple of distinct memories from around 50 years ago that are worth
noting. For it was on the trip to El Paso
from wherever we had been before that I learned that it is not wise to go
kicking around on fire ant hills while wearing sandals. Later on, I learned that a bowl of something
that looked like sweet relish may actually be really hot/spicy on the Mexican
side of the border.
Be
assured that there is a lot of spice on both sides of the border on The Bridge. For the very first scene involved a body dump
on the bridge over the Rio Grande, and it was later revealed that it was
actually the dumping of two half-bodies, made to look like a whole person.
Liberally
stirred into the mix are the side-stories to Det. Cross and her Mexican
counterpart, Det. Marco Ruiz. Along with
stabs at Mexican corruption, American indifference, international politics,
inter-agency dysfunctions, marital infidelity, journalistic fraud and
longsuffering Lt. Hank Wade, played by [Ted Levine], who must have proven
something to the producers of The Bridge on [Monk].
Now,
Arlynda has announced that we will be watching the second episode, which will
first air at 9:00 pm on Wednesday, July 17, 2013. For she wants to find out what is in that
locked room, but that’s as far as is it going with us. For she already has enough that she can swear
that she was having a bad dream about when she starts beating me about the head
and the shoulders in the middle of the night.
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