I can offer four (mine and Peggy's) hearty thumbs up to the miniseries "Under The Bridge" on Netflix. It's about some teenagers in British Columbia who ganged up on one girl who was trying to fit in with the crowd, and I won't say any more. I don't like it when people drop spoilers and then holler "Spoiler Alert!" when it's too late.
We recommend the series and I wish you would take note of how fine an actress Riley Keough is. She plays the writer who comes back to her home town to write about the girl who tried to fit in. It might not mean anything to some people, and it might mean everything to others, but Riley is Elvis's granddaughter, the child of his only offspring, Lisa Marie.
Since her grandfather died in 1977, it might not be such a deal to people born more recently, and that's why she stands on her own, and goes a fine job in the show.
It must be hard to be the child of a famous family. Riley's grandma Priscilla was an actress of sorts ("Dallas" on TV and "Naked Gun" movies), but she did not cause anyone to confuse her with Meryl Streep. Elvis made a couple of dozen movies, all featuring him playing Elvis under different names.
It seems that Riley went out and just learned to act, and even though when I see her on the TV in our living room I see her grandfather, grandmother and mother in her features, she is out there alone, and that's to her credit.
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