The Bridge - Season 2, Episode 6 "Harvest of Souls" Review

                While I could see people saying that every episode of The Bridge seems to have the same tone and move at the same pace, I don’t see that as a problem. I do see how some people would eventually get tired of it, but it’s too interesting for me to quick watching it. Every few episodes, there is one that’s different. This episode is very different than the last few episodes and seems to have different parts in itself.

            In this episode of The Bridge, Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir) and Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger) are still trying to keep out of harm’s way with Eva (Stephanie Sigman)’s case. Eva and Steven Linder (Thomas M. Wright) hold up at the farm. Sonya is also doing some looking into as to what’s going on with Eleanor Nacht (Franka Potente) with Hank Wade (Ted Levine). Daniel Frye (Matthew Lillard) and Adriana Mendez (Emily Rios) continue to investigate what’s blossomed from the mystery of the “money house”. There are also little things in these stories connecting with others, and Fausto Galvan (Ramon Franco) has one scene extending his storyline.

            The first part of this episode, while interesting, seemed to drag a bit for me. The second half, however, seemed to be the opposite. It was engaging the whole time and had some very intense scenes, all of which were very well handled by the director, and I could tell that he did a good job. Because this is a very well-done episode, from the cinematography to the direction. The director seems to make each scene seem like it’s done so well, and everything looks great, too. The director and cinematographer also tend to use some very wide shots, and they are very well chosen and very well framed. The whole episode is great to look at, and very well-done in general.

            This is also a really, really well-written episode. All of the dialogue seems reasonably realistic, and the layout of the episode is very well chosen. We don’t get all of our main characters in the episode, but the screenwriters did a good job at giving us depth for the characters we do see. In fact, there’s a very good combination of plot and characters in this episode. The events of this episode were well-chosen, and the way each scene was lain-out gave each one of them something to make it interesting. This was a compelling, engaging episode with very good dialogue and a very good plot layout.

            There’s not much more I can say about the episode. I enjoyed the first half although pacing issues were present, but I was engaged throughout all of the second half. The episode was very well-written and made. The cinematography and direction were both really good. I really enjoyed this episode overall and am looking forward to the next.