Absolutely brilliant

A Major Disappointment

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I just finished watching the first season of The Tunnel. I have not seen The Bridge. I very much enjoyed the main characters, settings, and cross-cultural elements, but found the story to be of somewhat inconsistent quality. Two examples (there are more) include: (1) An entirely unnecessary and confusing subplot involving a wayward French detective (spy?) was dropped in near the end of the season; and (2) The villain, who through most of the season is making national political statements through a series of mass murders, at the end of the season turns out to ALSO have a personal vendetta against one of the main characters. It seemed that additional characters and story lines were thrown in on top of--but not integral to--the main story. I will watch the other seasons and hope the writers/show runner will do a better job with the story line.

I have never seen the original so I'm not going to base it on that.The show started great with the truths and the police trying to catch the TT. Once it hit episode 8 or 9 the show became awful. So much plot induced stupidity it was comical. No point what so ever watching the last episode because it's obvious how it all turns out. The kid "Adam" just running out while he knows a killer is after his family makes no sense. I get he thinks it's his old girlfriend but nobody is that stupid to do that, then of course he leaves his computer open for them all to see. We all knew they would drag out the last episode with so much talking you could literally fast forward 95% of the episode and miss nothing.Show was very promising but became just like any other run of the mill garbage detective shows when it became about Karl and his past.

The ending for Season 3 was just about the best ending for any series, ever. Very emotional, but an excellent wrap up.

This is a curious hotch potch of a story: the main problem is that it is a step by step remake of The Bridge with Clemence Poesy playing the autistic lead, but not too well. So if you have seen The Bridge, this doesn't appear to be more than a copy.The other problem is the story lacks conviction: a mastermind who can manipulate his way to achieve anything, including seducing women and convincing some poor mug into committing suicide. That is getting a bit old.The poor story line and questionable casting is lifted, however, by the performance and dialogue of the other principle actor, Stephen Dillane, who is the British detective assigned to the case. Compared to the rest of the dialogue, Dillane's is completely authentic with all the jokey attitude of a real copper. Perhaps he wrote the dialogue himself? A great opportunity has been lost by not allowing the French to write the story when the location moves to Calais. Anyone who has watched a French cop movie (Braquo, Engrenages) will know they have a very different method of interrogation and procedure and that would have made this interesting viewing.