Long Bright River on Peacock. Starring that chick you've heard of and that guy you've seen, plus some Philly locals who no one cares about. It tells the story of a single mom police officer in the Kensington neighborhood of Philly. That lace looks like Beirut in '83, but with extra homeless and a million times more fent. It seems someone if killing prostitutes and our plucky heroine is the only one who cares. The show takes us on an unnecessarily long journey as she uncovers the killer and finds vindication in her life or something.
8 episodes which is 2-3 too many. Little side plots with no resolution or some weak nonsense dot the landscape. The story we've seen before, but what haven't we in 2026? The 8-year old son is so annoying by episode 2 I hoped for a kidnapping. Mine, his, didn't care, just get me out of his life. What a precocious little brat.
The ending wasn't bad, but the characters were bland and unsympathetic. The protagonist(s) were shitty people in a world of shittier people. Plot holes and "WTF" moments covered the story like chickenpox...which I wish the kid contracted so we could quarantine him from the story. Slow and with unlikeable characters, as dim, depressing, and "bulldoze this into the ocean like Kensington itself", I can't recommend this one.
2 out of 5 "It's an English horn, not an oboe!"
