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Everything is not sunny in Philadelphia on the small screen this week.

Both Apple TV+ Anesthetic Thursday review – and Peacock’s Long bright river Determine stories about killing and misery with blue collars against the relative hope of complex relationships between two main characters.

One of the offers begins very well, with his focus on that central relationship, but struggles in the second half. Others struggle during the first half, but it is well replaced as soon as it makes his way to what was always supposed to be the heart of the story.

The second series Long bright riverWhich is closed with two emotionally effective episodes, their goal, despite some excessive conspiracy transformations; The peak is a copy less than the end of a better drama than last year; And a funny moment as someone finally wanders to say the title of the series. She got a few tears from the decision of the story of brotherhood, addiction and options, if not at the end of the mystery of the killing.

And if this seems to be cursed by the faint praise? certainly! Nikki Tuscano and Les Moore for Moore’s novel is goodwill, but enlarged. You can cut the first six episodes of Long bright river To four with four, up to two with a kind of harsh efficiency that a story really deserves in this coordination.

For the first episode or two, Long bright river He feels strange alone ABC’s EmergingWith Amanda Severid, Mickey, a policeman of the victory that Feli did play in the old Kensington neighborhood with Eddie (Dash Mihawk), is again 40-something with no understanding of protocols or social parts of the job. For her part, Mickey knows the name of each addicted worker and a sexual worker, and understands that sympathy is important for the job, or at least it can be.

As always in stories like this, Mickey’s sympathy does not happen normally. She has a personal relationship with drug users and prostitutes, due to the years of watching her sister Kassi (Ashley Kamings) deeper and deeper in this world.

Mickey, who loves the English century to distraction (distraction of the exhibition book, not her distraction), has a Callum Vinson’s Thomas, who does not know that Kacey is present and began to wonder about the reason for the absence of another family other than other than the dowry, it turned out that the “opioid material crisis” is a complex topic to clarify a seven -year -old player.

However, things go upside down to Mickey when girls start from the street to appear at the same time. No one will take the death of some addicts seriously, but Mickey is full of sympathy and personal motivation. Looking for someone you can trust, and she turns into Truman (Nicholas Pinock), a former partner who was injured in some incidents that may have at least Mickey’s error partially, although the accident, the injury, or the thing in which Mickey freezes in high risks at all after the first episode.

You know what is mentioned again and again? “Options”.

Long bright river A good literary imagination with little attention loves whether such a perception is also playing in TV stories. The first episode, Mickey, is characterized by the teaching of Thomas from Faust (easier than the “opium crisis”) and deals with Satan (she is a strange mother, but she is very involved). In Flashback until 2017, Truman Mickey gives a lesson in selection -making systems. After that, the characters spend the following seven episodes in discussing the behaviors that are chosen, which are affected by psychology or physiology, and often just saying “choice” a lot.

Not that Long bright river Do not realize the difference between literary devices and TV devices. Director Hajar Bin Ashir, who also leads the fifth episode, presents seriously with dubatic shots of unpleasant camps and their positions before explaining to us how life on the other side of the tracks by taking the camera over the craft railway tracks. Yes. It was a little ridiculous, but I actually liked it that one of the first shots of Mickey and Cassi together were distinguished by them on my side versus the door of the store, indicating that the craftsmanship door of the fate separates their trends that their lives took.

This series revolves around two sisters, but in the first half of the season, even by dividing the narration into a set of memories of the past, Long bright river It is not possible to find a way to make this relationship rise to the surface. The memories of the past are very peach, very clear, and unfortunately, it was a little bad. I know that the distinctive appearance of Imana will want it is not easy to copy, but when there are smaller versions of the characters that are not similar to zero with old versions, they failed to form the connective tissue that makes the memories of the past worthy of attention. I never felt that Mickey and Cassi in the memories of the past had a relationship with Micky and Cassi today. And you need!

Many of the first four episodes are spent on holding a largely interested relationship between Mickey and Toman, which appears to be on an administrative leave and has nothing to do other than Mickey lending with her hand while she is participating in an investigation outside the books. I can’t say if Truman has a role on the page, but on the screen, it seems as if someone decided “well, his name is Truman, because he is the only real man …” and called her one day. When it comes to defects, he is addicted to gambling and believes that this will bring its fruits in a meaningful way, and does not do that.

Then there is a full-fourth episode-in which Truman, a black Philadelphian, and Mickey, a resident of the broken neighborhood in Philadelphia, spends a full hour of a confusion of the idea of ​​police corruption, as if it were something new and was not a previous consumer for them. This is not a way to make me respect two letters and their ability to understand the world around them.

I love thorny, complex, unwanted characters. I am less than that with thorny, complex and undesirable characters that the book needs to constantly apologize for themselves, which is what it seems to be all that Mickey does for eight hours. In the episode entitled “Takfir”? Get it! But living a little chaos. Sometimes people make mistakes.

Nothing is a mistake. Mickey is not supposed to be a normal police, but SEYFRIED is almost moved almost no time to disturb her. She got a sweet relationship with Vinson and her watching with Doman is of the first degree.

Doman, Philadelphia, born and patients, raises the general level of Feli’s originality, especially for the show that was often filmed in New York and feels “northeast of urban urban” more than Feli. I loved a subcontinent related to the mummera. And I think it is fun to be in one scene, Mickey – Seyfrid does not do any tone at all – it goes to Thanksgiving with what is clear that the Philadelphia side of the family, where everyone has gone out, talk about Iggles, Wooter, etc. I was the lowest in one scene in which Micky visited someone and ask, “Do you want tastykake or something like that?” What kind of tastykake? Sure I want peanut butter Kandy Kake, but if all you have is Jelly Krimpeet? Nah.

It makes a big difference when Cummings becomes more active than the chain. It retroactively established some memories of the past in its wounded sorrow and gives the entire story hidden that the porn treatment of misery in the seriousness was not often accomplished. She does not raise the offer. It is his balance.

It takes a long time to get there. Very long time on weeds through red herring and coloring in the mystery that eventually is relevant. He has long spent the length in recycling the characters, never disturbed the show, like his best friend in Mickey-when the deserted aura in Mickey (Preton Oldford). Or the general delegate (Danjarat’s Joe Daru), who still expects to serve a further purpose two “The real men” in the story).

Seyfrid and Cummings are able to move the masses to any type of pathological destination that is impressive and even rewarding. But so you cannot make you forget the best of this trip is very long and not shining enough.