History Series / BronBroen

The show has had five [[Main/ForeignRemake remakes]] to date:

** Saga. The actor and writers have said that she probably is autistic/Asperger in some way, but that they didn't explicitly state it to keep their freedom of writing without offending/misleading people. This said, she has been praised as a plausible portrayal and role model for some on the autistic spectrum.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: The first suspect in season 3 thinks the first victim was this, running gender neutral daycare centers and wanting gay people to get married in church as she was.

*** At the end of the second season, [[spoiler:Gertrud is shot by a BiggerBad.]]

* MailerDaemon: [[spoiler:August and the killer, who is pretending to be a (real) female friend of his.]]

** [[spoiler: Saga's mother, who poisoned both her daughters and when the youngest was DrivenToSuicide, she blamed it on Saga and tries to frame her for murder twenty years later.]]

** Season 2: [[spoiler: [[WellIntentionedExtremist Gertrud]]]]

** Season 4: [[spoiler: [[{{Revenge}} Susanne Winther]], though Kevin is her right-hand and William Ramberg can be considered the GreaterScopeVillain as, had he not murdered Tommy, the killings would have never happened to begin with]].

** Season 1: [[spoiler:Jens has been captured, but August is dead and Martin's wife is leaving him. Not to mention that dozens of people have died gruesomely along the way.]]
** Season 2: [[spoiler:The eco-terrorist conspiracy has been foiled, but the unknown mastermind of that conspiracy is [[KarmaHoudini still at large]], Saga's boyfriend has left her, Martin's wife has left ''him'' (again), Pernille is dead, and because of the last two events, Martin finally crosses the DespairEventHorizon and ''possibly'' murders Jens, completing Jens's [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred master plan]] from the first season finale. Saga finds out and is forced to report Martin, leading to his arrest. Not to mention that dozens of people have died gruesomely along the way.]]

** [[spoiler: Getrud, the BigBad of season 2 is a scientist for a huge medical company]] and a mass-murdering ecoterrorist.
** [[spoiler: Oliver, TheHeavy of season 2]] is a highly educated IT-guy who cooperates with the ecoterrorists for his own agenda.

* DespairEventHorizon: Even a year after the events of the first season, Martin cannot get over the profoundly negative impact [[spoiler:Jens]] has left on his life. He finally falls into the Horizon when [[spoiler:his wife tells him their marriage can't be salvaged, leading him to kill Jens and go to jail. Ironically, it was probably Martins' infidelity that caused her to come to this conclusion.]]

** Jennifer Noreen, Saga's sister, years before the first season begins.

** When Saga chats with Martin's nanny, the girl makes it sound like she thinks she's perfect just because she does her job.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Yes, [[spoiler: Mette]], just follow a stranger you barely know to the middle of nowhere with your kids because he has a "surprise" for you. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong? And she doesn't learn her lesson, either - [[spoiler: in Season Two, Saga's the one who reveals their nanny has Munchausen by Proxy and is responsible for their son's mysterious sickness.]]

* JerkAss: Jonas, even though he is a competent policeman, is prone to making insensitive remarks about and to suspects (to a point that one homosexual man wanted for questioning refuses to talk to him), is hinted to be cheating his wife [[spoiler:and is leaking information about the current murder investigation to media]].

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:Charlotte paying the entire ransom just to spite her dead husband and spend her stepdaughter's money]]

* TheSociopath: Saga's evil mother, Marie-Louise, who psychologically wrecks Saga every day throughout the entirety of season 3, caused her sister Jennifer to commit suicide with Münchausen by Proxy, and in the end [[spoiler: even manages to get Saga fired from her job by posing her own suicide as murder, the murder being framed on Saga]].

* An [[UsefulNotes/{{Estonia}} Estonian]]-[[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Russian]] remake set on the border with Estonia (specifically the Friendship Bridge between Narva and Ivangorod) has been ordered by NTV in that country to air in 2017, known as ''The Bridge'' in English (Мост in Russian) with one season aired and another coming.

''Bron|Broen'' (the former title is Swedish and the latter Danish), known in English-speaking markets as ''The Bridge'', is a NordicNoir thriller co-produced by the national TV companies of Denmark and Sweden. The first series was shown in its native countries in 2011, and in 2012 followed ''Series/{{Forbrydelsen}}'' onto Creator/{{BBC}}4 in the UK. A second season aired throughout Scandanavia in 2013 with the third season airing it the region, followed by the UK in 2015. The fourth and intentionally final season was shown in both Europe and the UK in 2018.

*** There is also a decent chance she has Tourette's, given all her involuntary twitching.

* BrandX: The lipstick used on victims in season three is of the brand FeliCity, which is not a real makeup brand.

** The time-out room. Saga tells Henrik that the idea behind it is that children don't perceive time-out as a punishment, but as a natural consequence.

* OneNightStandPregnancy: [[spoiler:Nicole]] gets pregnant with [[spoiler:her husband's brother]] after a single very drunken night together. Of course, Saga is the one to figure this out based on [[spoiler:the baby's eyes being brown despite both purported parents being blue-eyed]]. Leads to a somewhat unexpected conversation, when her husband asks "how long have you been having an affair with him?", clearly expecting it to have gone on for months under his nose, and she reveals that it was in fact only a single night.

* OneWordTitle: Its Swedish and Danish titles, respectively, ''Bron'' and ''Broen''.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Saga will tell you who she's had sex with and how, the exact size of her boyfriend's penis, and if you ask about her sister she'll inform you that she jumped in front of a train when she was fourteen… but if you ask how she knows so much about Munchhausen by proxy she'll avoid the question.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Taariq speaks Danish with an Iraqi accent… except when he's shouting at a man to let go of a girl, then it's just clean Danish.

* ImprobablyCoolCar: Saga's car. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Martin, who jokingly asks whether Swedish cops are well-paid. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Saga doesn't get it.]]

* An Estonian-Russian remake set on the border with Estonia (specifically the Friendship Bridge between Narva and Ivangorod) has been ordered by NTV in that country to air in 2017, known as ''The Bridge'' in English (Мост in Russian) with one season aired and another coming.
* A Malaysian-Singapore remake that aired on November 26, 2018 on HBO Asia, [=NTV7=] and online by Viu known as ''The Bridge''. The first victim is placed on the Second Link.
* An Austrian-German remake aired all the 8-episode series on January 17, 2019 known as ''Der Pass'' since the show starts in a mountain pass between Bavaria and Salzburg.

** [[spoiler:Lennart Blomgren]]

* StartToCorpse

* TitleDrop: Hollow Talk is mentioned in the intro song.

* TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket: Rasmus is a kind of naive you don't necessarily expect from someone working for the police.

* Subverted in season 3, where there is a character named Bror, meaning "brother", which is at most a RedHerring for the viewers. The characters never bring it up, no matter how much Morten Anker talks about his unnamed brother.

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Unexpectedly played straight with the school bus hijack, and later Martin's younger children. In series 3, Freddie Holst's newborn.]]

* An Estonian-Russian remake set on the border with Estonia has been ordered by NTV in that country to air in 2017, known as ''The Bridge'' in English (Мост in Russian) with one season aired and another coming.
* A Malaysian-Singapore remake that aired on November 26, 2018 on HBO Asia, [=NTV7=] and online by Viu known as ''The Bridge''.

* An Austrian-German remake aired all the 8-episode series on January 17, 2019 known as ''Der Pass'' since the show starts in a mountain pass.

** Åsa is seconds away from getting kidnapped when the killer receives photos proving that her pregnant belly is just a prosthetic, [[spoiler:causing the kidnapper to abandon their mission as it was the babay they wanted.]]
** Just when Henrik needs Lucas to [[spoiler:lose his photos of Henrik buying illegal drugs]], he gets killed in a drive-by, and [[spoiler:Henrik steals the phone]].

** Oliver's wife/[[spoiler:widow]] tells her sister-in-law that [[spoiler:you don't have to kill people just because they never said a kind word to you]].

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler:Subverted in the fourth season when Saga accidentally gets pregnant by Henrik. She first intends to get an abortion due to knowing she is not equipped to handle a child, then offers to have the baby and let Henrik keep it when she sees how deaperate he is for a child. Then she ends up having the abortion anyway due to disastrously misinterpreting advice from her therapist and Lilian, because when he wants to deepen their relationship she thinks that it's unconnected to the pregnancy and she can treat it as an either/or thing.]]

* NurseryRhyme: Sofia and Stefan know each other by a rewriting of a nursery rhyme from their childhood.

** In the second season finale, Hanne, a Danish policewoman who Martin was attracted to, [[spoiler:shoots herself rather than die slowly and painfully from ThePlague she was exposed to.]]

** Jonas telling Saga he'd rather follow Pernille's example when it comes to smalltalk seeing as Martin is in prison.

** [[spoiler: In Season Three, Saga is talking to her friend from the mortuary who is currently examining a female skeleton that had been buried in concrete when Saga interrupts him to talk about the case. Later on, it turns out that it's Alice - Hendrik's missing wife.]]

** In the second season finale, Pernille, a Danish policewoman who Martin was attracted to, [[spoiler:shoots herself rather than die slowly and painfully from ThePlague she was exposed to.]]

* BilingualDialogue: All the dialogue is in either Danish or Swedish depending on who's talking, as the languages are mutually intelligible to an extent. In the very first episode, Martin asks his Swedish counterparts if they can understand his Danish, and when they appear to be straining to comprehend somewhat, he realises he’s going too fast and slows down a little — which does the trick, and it’s never really brought up again. Incidentally, in Denmark, the name “Saga” is pronounced as "Sega", but as “Sah-ga” when in her native Sweden, while she introduces Martin as "Röhde" rather than "Rohde".

The show has had five remakes to date:

* BilingualDialogue: All the dialogue is in either Danish or Swedish depending on who's talking, as the languages are mutually intelligible to an extent (Rohde asks his Swedish counterparts if they can understand his Danish, and they always can. In Denmark, the name “Saga” is pronounced as "Sega", but as “Sah-ga” when in her native Sweden, while she introduces Martin as "Röhde" rather than "Rohde".)

'''Saga''': [irritated look] ''Länskrim Malmö.''

* InsistentTerminology: In the second season: It's a ship, not a boat, and Saga will never let you forget it. And, it's not a toad, it's a frog. Also, as she tells Linn, when the blog is in video format it's called a vlog.

--> '''Henrik''': Hello, I'm Henrik Saboe, København Politi... And this is my colleague, Saga Norén.\\