Amanda Seyfried is taking it to the streets. The Mamma Mia and The Dropout actress has pivoted to combating crime in her newest challenge, the Peacock crime thriller Lengthy Vivid River. The variation of the favored Liz Moore novel of the identical title is about to hit the streaming service on March 13, 2025, and in preparation, Peacock has launched a brand new trailer rife with a few of tv’s favourite tropes: cops, intercourse staff, and habit.
In response to the official synopsis from Peacock, “Lengthy Vivid River tells the story of Mickey (Seyfried), a police officer who patrols a Philadelphia neighborhood hard-hit by the opioid disaster. When a collection of murders begins within the neighborhood, Mickey realizes that her private historical past may be associated to the case.”

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Amanda Seyfried will patrol the streets as a Philly-based detective in Peacock’s upcoming Lengthy Vivid River.
For many who wish to know a bit extra? Nicely, you’ll be able to learn on, beneath, to get a greater sense of the collection’ origins and what to anticipate from the newest cop present on the scene.
What’s ‘Lengthy Vivid River,’ The Novel, About? And How Would possibly The TV Present Differ?
As a result of authentic concepts are so scarce in Hollywood today, it ought to most likely come as little-to-no-surprise that Peacock’s Lengthy Vivid River relies on a preexisting mental property (IP for brief) — Liz Moore’s novel of the identical title. Moore is a prolific and acclaimed novelist, whose different books embody the favored The Phrases of Each Tune, Heft, The Unseen World, and her most up-to-date, The God of the Woods, which was launched in 2024. The final two of these books have additionally been optioned (by Sony Footage Tv) to be tailored into movie and/or tv tasks, with Moore hooked up in a writing capability.
However what concerning the synopsis for the novel model of Lengthy Vivid River? Nicely, that offers away much more of the plot than the trailer, which retains the relationships at play a bit extra shrouded in thriller. For many who are curious on that entrance, you’ll be able to take a look at the official novel synopsis beneath:
“In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid disaster, two once-inseparable sisters discover themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets within the vise of habit. The opposite, Mickey, walks those self same blocks on her police beat. They do not communicate anymore, however Mickey by no means stops worrying about her sibling. Then Kacey disappears, all of a sudden, on the similar time {that a} mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey’s district, and Mickey turns into dangerously obsessive about discovering the wrongdoer—and her sister—earlier than it is too late. Alternating its present-day thriller with the story of the sisters’ childhood and adolescence, ‘Lengthy Vivid River’ is without delay heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: a gripping suspense novel that can be a shifting story of sisters, habit, and the formidable ties that persist between place, household, and destiny.”
So, there you’ve got it: Kacey and Mickey are sisters! Though how they’re linked to the potential killer stays a thriller. May or not it’s their father? A protracted-lost brother? Another person totally? Followers of the novel know the reply, however these of us with out that insider information must proceed to guess. In addition to, there’s at all times an opportunity these points of the story have modified in its evolution in direction of turning into a TV present. So possibly none of us actually know the reply!
Seyfried has a ton of recent tasks within the works today, ought to this one not tickle your fancy, together with the extremely anticipated The Housemaid, a thriller thriller directed by Paul Feig, which she is starring in reverse Sydney Sweeney.
The Housemaid
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December 25, 2025
- Writers
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Freida McFadden, Rebecca Sonnenshine
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Alex Younger