On this emotional eight-hour thriller primarily based on the best-selling novel by Liz Moore, Emmy winner Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout) performs Mickey Fitzpatrick, a single mom and Philadelphia beat cop who faces each skilled and private challenges when one case will get private.
“The collection spotlights the customarily underserved, usually forgotten however vibrant Kensington neighborhood in Philly,” says Seyfried. (Lengthy Brilliant River was filmed in Brooklyn.) “It’s one-part thriller and one-part household drama with numerous coronary heart. Hopefully,” she provides, “individuals who like suspense will probably be into it, and individuals who like character-driven dramas may also be into it!”
Patrolling Kensington, the working-class neighborhood she grew up in that morphed right into a haven for unlawful drug exercise, Mickey is disturbed by a spike of lifeless younger homeless girls. “Her stage of help and compassion for these girls is unwavering partly as a result of her estranged sister Kacey [Ashleigh Cummings] is one in all them,” the actress reveals.
Although Mickey grew to become a cop on the urging of her then boyfriend, additionally an officer, “she’s stayed a patrol cop [rather than becoming a detective],” says cocreator and showrunner Nikki Toscano, “although she’s by no means actually had a love for the work she does, however as a result of it saved her on the road, the place she may watch her sister.”
Whereas her colleagues within the precinct chalk the rising deaths of girls to drug overdoses, Mickey suspects they’re the victims of a serial killer. When that proves to be true, her panic is completely compounded by the latest murders of intercourse employees within the neighborhood as a result of she is aware of her sister, an opioid addict, could possibly be subsequent.
Pushed to unravel the crimes, she quickly learns that Kacey, a longtime substance abuser, is lacking, and with out informing her superiors about her sibling, she goes on the hunt. “To unravel the thriller of Kacey’s disappearance,” says Toscano, “she should replicate on the secrets and techniques of their previous, after which break any guidelines to search out her. We’ll additionally start to suspect that Mickey could also be hiding one thing and might not be the dependable narrator we predict her to be.”
Sadly, says Seyfried, “Mickey is unquestionably getting ready to shedding her thoughts and liable to blackouts as a result of she’s buried in nervousness and turmoil. I like taking part in individuals who exist in every single place on this planet and offering views we’d like extra of. Mickey can be confronted with catastrophic habit in her household and is consistently fearful about shedding her sister to it.”
She got here from a damaged household — her grandfather Gee (John Doman), who cared for the sisters, “was very powerful on them, as a result of he didn’t know take care of the lack of his daughter, their mom,” Toscano explains. Not together with her ex, Mickey’s entire life is her son Thomas (Callum Vinson), “a precocious younger boy who’s acutely attuned to his mom’s wants, typically on the expense of his boyhood.”
Mickey’s solely actual help comes from Aura (Britne Olford), a health worker who’s Mickey’s former college mate, and Truman (Nicholas Pinnock), her former accomplice, who’s on medical go away on the high of the collection. “Truman turns into a real ally and sounding board within the seek for her sister,” says Toscana, “and for the primary time in her life evokes Mickey to let her guard down.”
Lengthy Brilliant River, Collection Premiere, Thursday, March 13, Peacock