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Subject: Long Bright River
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 19:28:47 -0400
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Peacock dropped a new series called Long Bright River a couple of days 
back. I'm not sure yet if this is meant to be an ongoing series or a 
limited one. In any case, they dropped all 8 episodes at once and each 
is just under an hour long.

Our lead character Michaela "Mickey" Fitzpatrick is played by Amanda 
Seyfried who I first saw playing Lily Caine in Veronica Mars back in the 
day. I know she's done a lot of other things since then but I haven't 
seen most of them. Mickey Fitzpatrick is a patrol officer in the inner 
city of Philadelphia, where she grew up. She takes a special interest in 
the homeless people in the area, at least partly because her younger 
sister is one of them. She's also got a young son whose father is rarely 
around for reasons that are revealed as we get into the series.

Several teenage girls have been found dead in the area and the initial 
assumption is that they had overdosed but Mickey discovers that one of 
them had blood in her mouth which is apparently unusual in overdose 
cases and suggests homicide. The medical examiner determines that it was 
indeed a homicide - via insulin - and that two other recent deaths, also 
thought to be overdoses were also murders by insulin.

Mickey is not very much appreciated by her fellow police, including her 
supervisor, so she investigates largely on her own, with the help of her 
former partner, Truman, who is off work recovering from an injury she 
feels partly responsible for. But he's basically the only guy she feels 
she can trust.

As the investigation continues, we learn a lot about Mickey and her 
sister Kacey and why their relationship is so troubled. We also learn 
that Mickey was a skilled musician (English horn) who gave up pursuing 
her musical dream.

Having finished the first 5 of the 8 episodes, I thought I'd mention it 
here in case you were curious about it. IMDB gives it a 6.9 rating, 
which I suppose is fair. It's not brilliant but I'm finding it watchable.

-- 
Rhino