The second season returns two years into Birgitte Nyborg's term as Denmark's first female Prime Minister. Politically, she has succeeded in earning the respect of her allies as well as her enemies, but tensions between parties are mounting, and Birgitte is forced to make more and more shaky compromises. The growing pressure causes her to doubt whether she can maintain both her position and her integrity.
The broadcast of the season's first episode started on Sunday (June 3) and will remain available for two weeks. New episodes will be available weekly. Both of the seasons are now available on DVD as well if you have a multi-region DVD player. Fortunately, Denmark will be producing at least one more season of this show to be shown in 2013. While they say it will be the final season, I hope they reconsider.
Now that Denmark has brought us terrific programs such as Borgen and The Killing (remade by AMC in the United States), can we really ask for one more? It seems we can. We now await The Bridge (Bron), recently shown in the UK. Like The Killing, this third program also involves an unsolved murder. However, this time it will take the resources of two nations, Denmark and Sweden, to solve this crime since it happened on a bridge separating the two countries (hence the name). Here is the BBC's short summary of episode one of The Bridge, which will hopefully hit our shores in the near future:
A woman is found murdered in the middle of Oresund Bridge, exactly on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Saga Noren from Malmo CID and Martin Rohde from the Copenhagen police department are called to the scene. What at first looks like one murder turns out to be two. The bodies have been brutally cut off at the waist and joined together - the torso of a high-profile Swedish politician and the lower body of a Danish prostitute. The Swedish and Danish police need to cooperate in a race against the clock, desperately searching for a murderer determined to go beyond all moral limits to get his message across.
And here is The Guardian's quick take on the new program: "It wasn't as gripping as The Killing, but it was handsomely mounted, well acted and reassuringly deprived of natural light and colour. Expect a run on leather trousers."
Season one of The Bridge is also available on DVD. Season two will begin production later this year and be broadcast in 2013, so you have plenty of time to catch up.
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