'Long Bright River' Review: Amanda Seyfried Pushes the Envelope in Peacock's Bingeable Mystery

The talented Amanda Seyfried ("The Dropout"), the thinking woman's beauty, joins the hard-working, blue-collar women of crime. "Long Bright River," the gritty Peacock limited series of eight bingeable episodes, follows in the sensible flats of investigative reporter Amy Adams in "Sharp Objects" and Jodie Foster in "True Detective: Night Country." Please, don't ask these women to smile. Mickey Fitzpatrick (Seyfried), amateur English horn player and Penn dropout, is an unlikely beat cop in the rough Kensington area of Philadelphia where she grew up. It's a low-income, . . .