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I haven't watched The Bridge yet - Alex's interview got me really excited to watch it and the preview looks really great, but the sneak peaks before it looked really creepy. I can't really watch intense TV shows, so I'm a little nervous to try it. Anyone have thoughts on the scare-factor level? NCIS level of intensity is fine, but as it starts to approach the Dexter end of things I start to get uncomfortable. Thoughts?

Hmm, there are a few "gory" scenes. Probably will be less than in Dexter, but it's not NCIS. As far as I remember, NCIS was always (unrealistically) clean, i.e. hardly any blood, no visible wounds etc. (although I haven't watched it in a long time, so I might misremember).
What did you see in the preview? Maybe you've already seen the worst of it.

Sorry, I meant teasers. They aren't gory or anything, they just seemed really intense and like the kind of thing that would make it hard to go to sleep at night. I tend to be pretty sensitive to that stuff, too - I once watched a horror movie (in Chinese, which I thought would diminish the fear-factor) and I had to leave the movie before it even really got started (a grand total of one person had died, and it wasn't even a gory or painful death), and what little I'd seen freaked me out every time I turned off the lights for about six months. It's not gore that's the issue (although that's not great) so much as the intensity of the emotions the show elicits, especially through suspense, etc.

That said, the teasers seem to focus on the killer, not the human interest, the presence of which (in the form of Sonya) is the reason I'd like to be able to watch the show in the first place.

These are the teasers I saw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZomN3xXicAw

Thoughts? Thanks for the help!

I watched it. I didn't really care for it. However, I am not into crime drama shows. At this point, I pretty much just watch documentaries. I just don't do stories of any kind.

My wife loved the show so I'll be giving it another try.

Personally she completely turns me off. Woman aspies present differently than males and most know how to mimic nuerotypical behaviors to get through most situations (even if on the inside they are lost and even near panic). She behaves like a male on the spectrum to me - she is completely off putting and definately giving a wrong image to my family of how a female aspie behaves.

Sorry - this show gets a double thumbs down from me. If they want a consultant for the show - find a female aspie. Sorry Alex.

quoted:

'One of the reasons many women on the spectrum have to survive on the wrong planet for decades before getting a diagnosis is because all women are taught to minimize their eccentricities by mimicking and echoing their peers. (For similar reasons, many lesbians only realize that they’re gay in middle age.) Aspie guys can also be more confrontational than Aspergirls, and quicker to erupt in rage when their senses get overloaded, which brings their condition to the attention of parents and teachers. This may have as much to do with traditional gender roles as it does with the distinctive traits of men and women with autism.'

Taken from this article: http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2010/ ... aspergirl/

Second episode today out here on the West coast. Pretty scary for me... I keep getting a feeling of dread that anything could happen. I have been well aware of the murders of women in Juarez for maybe 20 years... it's so evil.

Incidentally, I'm hoping the depiction in the show is better than the one in Hannibal.

That one sucks.

I've watched all of the original and the first episode of the remake.

So far, I prefer the original. Maybe it's just because it's more accessible for me as a European, but ... I don't know. The US version is fairly ham-handed about a few things (Look, let's point out how odd the main female character is! And again. And again.), and I'm fairly sure the implications are much different in the remake -- for one, the entire racial issue isn't as prominent in the Danish-Swedish original (for obvious reasons), the border is heavily policed and controlled (again unlike the mostly 'drive-through' border between Sweden and Denmark), and the 'power imbalance' between the investigative forces is much more pronounced in the remake ... I think the Canadian-US border would've been a much closer match, if they had to remake it in the first place, but oh well.

I was also kind of disappointed that they stayed so close to the original -- down to styling choices and the general 'look' of the actors. Saga and Sonya look very alike, Daniel has the same dead-eyed stare in both versions ... I think if they'd diverged more, it might've been more interesting to me.