Aside from having the hots for Diane Kruger (egads - taking a dump in the desert while her assassin digs her grave!) who is Jody Foster with even more Aryan appeal playing Chloe O'Brien sans technology, the new season of
The Bridge on FX has continued the fervor, killing off the psychopath from season one and bringing forward an even more psychotic set of villains. As an adaptation of (Danish: Broen; Swedish: Bron), it is Traffik/Traffic set in the Cormac McCarthy country of El Paso / Juarez and provides us with more than enough reason to not worry about the lack of open carry in Texas. I did tire (heresy!) of Breaking Bad and this is the perfect replacement in terms of visceral border conflict in the desert from the initial reassembled dual torsos intersecting the Mexican-US border in the beginning, to the constant interplay of sex, drugs, and Spanish sub-titles. It is Robert Rodriquez and Quentin Tarantino without affectation and with the realism that could make easily plausible a territorial war between the DEA and the CIA using the Mexican cartels as their not-so-compliant pawns. As long as the writing remains crisp and cynical, this program should go on for decades.