Lily Gladstone, Archie Panjabi, and Riley Keough Team Up to Find Missing Teens in Under the Bridge
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Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough are set to star in an upcoming murder mystery Under the Bridge, which is made by the creators of Little Fires Everywhere. In the trailer, the teens at the center of the mystery say that the local police call them Bic Girls, like the lighters, because they’re disposable. But not to Lily Gladstone’s character, Cam Bentland! Cam is determined to solve this, and might get some help from Riley Keough’s Rebecca Godfrey, who has come to town to write a book. It’s based on a true story written by the real Rebecca Godfrey, who sadly passed away from lung cancer just after the series was announced. She is still credited as a producer on the show, and worked on the project for years leading up to her death.
On top of Lily Gladstone (metaphorically), LGBTQ+ fans will also delight to know Archie Panjabi will be there. She’ll play Suman Virk, and from the Wikipedia I do believe she might be the mother of the victim that kicked this investigation off. Now, I know Archie herself might not be queer (as far as I know) but she has become a queer icon playing characters like the badass bisexual Kalinda in The Good Fight, bisexual boss Jane Lesser in Personal Affairs, and probably-gay-but-never-confirmed-as-such Pinky Bhamra.
The show looks dark and mysterious and extremely my jam, so I personally can’t wait to check it out. Under the Bridge will be premiere on Hulu on April 17, but you can watch the trailer now:
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Don’t mind me, I’m still laughing at the light topping pun.
Wish Lily wasn’t playing a cop :(
katy o’brian was a cop. ew
Maybe it’s because I’m both Canadian and old enough to remember when the Reena Virk case was in the media non-stop, but is it odd to anyone else to hear Under the Bridge described as a “murder mystery” rather than true crime?
Maybe that’s not a huge difference in pure genre terms, but it feels a little off to me.
The trailer seemed more like thriller to me than “murder mystery.”
I had never heard of the case, but I think true crime stories can also be murder mysteries, especially when highly dramatized like this seems to be. Like I would never call a documentary about a crime a murder mystery, but this is decidedly not a documentary. Like you said, I think it’s mostly semantics.