This small-town drama started making viewers 'uncomfortable.' Its creator is thrilled

There's something about "P-Valley" that draws you in, more than likely its central trifecta: the promise of sex, the hope of love and the certainty of death.

But there's even more that keeps you there, connective tissue that's compelling enough to make you care about the characters who inhabit the series' fictional town of Chucalissa, Mississippi.

Make that Memphissippi. Creator and showrunner Katori Hall describes the setting as a combination of the places she grew up that can't readily be found on TV, a mix of city and country that conjures authentic Black Southernness.

"I always say that if Chucalissa was a city, it would be this fusion of Memphis, Tunica, Mississippi, and Jackson, Mississippi, all kind of put in a pot and boiled and marinated together," she said. "Chucalissa is reflecting the hood, the rural communities, the different lingos, the musicality of Southern Black