An actress’s first job after being nominated for an Oscar is always interesting. These are usually jobs agreed upon before moving to the Hollywood spotlight, but they can help consolidate a moment in a career into a constant of success. If we pay attention to the trailer for Under the Bridge, Lily Gladstone seems to have the right series to release after Martin Scorsese’s Moon Killers: a police series where she must discover the truth behind the murder of a teenager with Riley Keough (Everyone Wants to Daisy Jones) as co-star.
It is based on real events, on a murder that traumatized Canadian society, especially Saanich, on Vancouver Island. Reena Virk was obsessed with fitting in with the other teenagers in Canada. She didn’t have it easy. When they weren’t picking on her weight, they were picking on her skin color. Even when she was among the Indian community, she was not like the others: almost everyone was Sikh and her family were Jehovah’s Witnesses. And, when she left home in 1997 to go to a party at age 14, authorities found her body eight days later.
In Under the Bridge, Riley Keough plays Rebecca Godfrey, who in 2005 published a book about the investigation and the people involved in the crime, on which this production is based. Lily Gladstone plays a police officer who believes in the judicial system, deeply moralistic and hard-working, who must face the hidden and darker side of the community in which she lives and in which she believed. Vritika Gupta plays Reena Virk, the victim, and The Good Wife Emmy winner Archie Panjabi plays her mother.
Behind the cameras, a women’s team. Quinn Shephard, who wrote the film Guilt, is behind the scripts. Director Geeta Pastel, who has an extensive resume in television with work on Dead to me, House of the Dragon and Ahsoka, is behind the cameras in the first episode. And, apart from Shephard and Pastel as executive producers, there is the writer Rebecca Godfrey or Liz Tigelaar, who has recently signed on as creator of series such as Little fires everywhere and Tiny beautiful things.
Anyone looking for a successor to Mare of Easttown can have it in this eight-episode Under the Bridge that will arrive on April 17 on the Hulu content platform in the United States, which means that in Spain it will arrive via Disney.
