Amanda Seyfried is getting her Mare Of Easttownon. The Dropoutactor stars in Peacock’s Long Bright River, another limited series about a Pennsylvanian detective whose personal life gets way too wrapped up in the grisly murder she’s trying to solve. This time, the connection is via Seyfried’s character Mickey’s sister, whom she fears is in danger when a series of murders hits her neighborhood of Kensington, Philadelphia.
Long Bright River‘s trailer depicts a neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis. “I grew up here. I went to elementary school down the street, and so did a lot of the girls working the avenue today,” Mickey says in the opening of the clip, to which fellow cop Truman (Nicholas Pinnock) responds, “These women are good people. The men—they’re a different story.” Now those women are turning up dead, and Mickey is making it her job to protect them—against the wishes of her boss.
Long Bright River was co-created and written by Nikki Toscano and Liz Moore, based on Moore’s 2020 novel of the same name. “Perhaps what drew me in the most was the possibility of what this show could achieve in its ambition to upend stereotypes: of those born into poverty and addiction, of those engaging in sex work, of those who have been written off or marginalized after they’ve seemingly fallen through the cracks of their community, and finally, of those engaged in police work,” Toscano said in a statement. “In fact, what makes Long Bright River so unique as a series is that it aims to deconstruct the ‘police as savior’ narrative.” Of Seyfried’s work, she lauded, “Strap yourself in—‘cause this is Amanda like you’ve never seen her before—flawed and raw, tarred by guilt and shame and legacy, but never more compelling.”
