History YMMV / TheBridgeUS

** The whole David Tate reveal provoked mixed reactions, especially after the WhamEpisode that was "Vendetta." Some felt that after TheReveal, the whole David Tate plotline essentially hijacked the entire show by devoting much less time to the more interesting weird storylines. The creators admitted to trying to get the David Tate storyline out of the way as quickly as possible because that what the main storyline from the original Danish-Swedish Series/BronBroen and because they wanted to open up The Bridge to more possibilities that are beyond the scope of just a strict adaptation of Series/BronBroen.
* GrowingTheBeard: Come season 2, when the show producers threw off the restraints of following the plot-by-plot approach of ''Series/BronBroen'' and took the story into their own hands.
* JerkassWoobie: Frye slides into this when he has a tearful breakdown during his TropaholicsAnonymous speech.

* JerkassWoobie: Frye slides into this when he has a tearful breakdown during his TropaholicsAnonymous speech.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** Ray in general. His OldFlame FriendsWithBenefits shares her secret tunnel, and he immediately plots to use it for his own gain with his partner in crime. Who is working for the ATF.
** Gina Meadows, the teenage girl who witnessed her father's murder. She's under police protection and after learning that her mother may lose custody over her, she decides to make a break for it. [[spoiler:And is promptly murdered by the same serial killer.]]
** Kyle, the teen who encounters Eleanor Nacht washing blood off herself. He decides to help her and blindly follow her demands in return for a peek of flesh. Needless to say, things end badly.

* TooGoodToLast

** Kyle, the teen who encounters Eleanor Nacht washing blood off herself. Contrary to his GenreSavvy friend, he decides to help her and blindly follow her demands in return for a peek of flesh. Needless to say, things end badly.

* VillainSue: Fans have raised objections to [[spoiler: David Tate's]] seeming omnipotence, believing it to reach its nadir when he somehow shows up at exactly the right place and time to [[spoiler:CarFu Sonya and Gus.]] And then there's the fact that his plan involves things he has no way of knowing or controlling, such as [[spoiler: Marco having an affair and Alma throwing him out for it.]]

* AntiClomaxBoss: The hitman that Fausto hires, "The Chopper," is easily taken out by Marco. Instead, the focus of the scene was Marco rescuing Sonya, who is in a desert-induced delirium.

* VillainSue: Fans have raised objections to [[spoiler: David Tate's]] seeming omnipotence, believing it to reach its nadir when he somehow shows up at exactly the right place and time to [[spoiler:CarFu Sonya and Gus.]] And then there's the fact that his plan involves things he has no way of knowing or controlling, such as [[spoiler: Marco having an affair and Alma throwing him out for it.]]

** Marco Ruiz's affair with Charlotte Millwright came across as OutOfCharacter for some viewers, at least at first. Though it is very strongly implied that it's not the first time he's cheated, either on Alma or his first wife.

** Marco Ruiz's affair with Charlotte Millwright came across as OutOfCharacter for some viewers, at least at first.
*** Though it is very strongly implied that it's not the first time he's cheated, either on Alma or his first wife.
* CompleteMonster: The serial killer [[spoiler:David Tate]]

* VillainSue: Fans have raised objections to [[spoiler: David Tate's]] seeming omnipotence, believing it to reach its nadir when he somehow shows up at exactly the right place and time to [[spoiler:CarFu Sonya and Gus.]]

** Marco Ruiz's affair with Charlotte Millwright came across as OutOfCharacter for some viewers.

VillainSue: Fans have raised objections to [[spoiler: David Tate's]] seeming omnipotence, believing it to reach its nadir when he somehow shows up at exactly the right place and time to [[spoiler:CarFu Sonya and Gus.]]

*** Though it is very strongly implied that it's not the first time he's cheated, either on Alma or his first wife.

** Marco Ruiz's affair with Charlotte Millwright came across as OutOfCharacter for some viewers.

* BrokenBase: Opinions are mixed regarding Diane Kruger's character having Asperger's.