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Long Bright River

★ 6.8 13K votes 2025–2025 1 season · 8 episodes Ended Peacock
Addiction & viceSubstance abuse and self-destruction up close.This show: 8/10GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 8/10Detective mysteryCrime-solving from the investigator's side of the table.This show: 8/10Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 7/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 7/10Strong female leadA complex woman drives the story.This show: 7/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Amanda SeyfriedNicholas PinnockAshleigh CummingsCallum VinsonJohn DomanDash Mihok
Starring
Amanda SeyfriedNicholas PinnockAshleigh CummingsCallum VinsonJohn DomanDash Mihok
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"Grief and addiction disguised as a murder case"

Amanda Seyfried plays a Philadelphia beat cop working the opioid-ravaged Kensington neighborhood, where sex workers are turning up dead and her own estranged, addicted sister has vanished. The show is somber, slow-burning procedural drama more interested in grief, addiction, and the wreckage of a family than in twisty plotting. It leans hard on Seyfried's quiet, haunted performance and a bleak, rain-soaked atmosphere. Pacing is deliberate rather than thrilling, closer to a character study wearing a crime-drama coat than a whodunit built for binge-watching momentum.

Watch it for

Amanda Seyfried's restrained, aching performance as a cop unraveling her own family's wreckage.

Maybe skip if

you want a fast-moving mystery rather than a slow, melancholic character study.

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Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Amanda Seyfried Mickey
Nicholas Pinnock Truman Dawes
Ashleigh Cummings Kacey
Callum Vinson Thomas Fitzpatrick
John Doman Gee
Dash Mihok Eddie Lafferty
Patch Darragh Sergeant Ahearn
Britne Oldford Dr. Aura Williams
Joe Daru Detective Danjarat, Detective Davis Danjarat
Rivera Reese Nicole

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