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Under the Bridge

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TerriBull Sun 03-Aug-25 09:02:31

Good Canadian true crime mini series first shown on Hulu, starring Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough (Elvis' granddaughter) an adaption of a 2005 book regarding the murder of Reena Virk a 14 year old girl, beaten to death and drowned, by her so called friends, or was it a stranger? The setting is the 1990s, Vancouver Island, with a soundtrack from the time. Much of the story is an insight into a vicious teenage girl gang, some residing in a care home with difficult family backgrounds, whilst pushing boundaries, in thrall to rap, drink and drugs. It's into this gang, the young Reena, straining at the leash is drawn from her own comfortably off tightly knit family. The series unfolds in several time frames particularly relating to Reena's family who emigrate to British Columbia from India and along the line become converts to Jehovah's Witnesses. Reena's mother is played by British Archie Panjabi who was one of the main characters in The Good Wife.

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TerriBull Sun 03-Aug-25 09:02:53

Forgot to mention it is on ITVX

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Jane43 Sun 03-Aug-25 09:17:40

I’ve watched this, it is excellent particularly the performances of the two female leads played by Riley Keogh who is the granddaughter of Elvis and Lily Gladstone who starred in Killers Of the Flower Moon with Leonardo Di Caprio. There are several storylines: the murder of a young girl whose death the two female leads are investigating, one as a writer and the other as a police officer, the past relationship of these two and the death of one’s brother and the family background story of the murdered girl. The story is based on a true event on Vancouver Island back in 1997 and is particularly interesting to me as we have spent a lot of time there in the past with my sister-in-law and two aunts who all lived there.

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TerriBull Sun 03-Aug-25 09:35:49

Yes the two female leads both very good, Riley Keogh rises above the neepo baby tag, she's a good actress. I've been to Vancouver but not Vancouver Island, beautiful part of the world, prone to a lot of rain though.

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Eloethan Sun 03-Aug-25 11:04:03

This was so well done - but very disturbing and harrowing, particularly as it was based on something that really happened.

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