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    Review: Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough shine in Hulu's dark true-crime drama 'Under the Bridge'

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Apr 17, 2024 5 minutes
    In Hulu’ s“ Under The Bridge,” Lily Gladstone stars as Cam, a Canadian officer investigating the death of a teenage girl.

    "Based on a true story" — why do we care? Does it matter whether the events of a dramatic work "really happened," or sort of happened, more or less in the way we're being told? Is it a come-on to prurient interests, when the subject is dark or sensational? Is it to appear educational? Is it to advertise that things that seem too incredible to be true really are true, to make what's shocking even more shocking, or to prop up a story that can't stand on its own?

    If I had a definite answer for you, there wouldn't have been so many question marks in the preceding paragraph. All of the above, maybe.

    "Dragnet" changed the names to protect the innocent, but nowadays it's the fashion to keep the names,

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