Long Bright River

Peacock dropped a new series called Long Bright River a couple of days back. I'm not sure yet if this is meant to be an ongoing series or a limited one. In any case, they dropped all 8 episodes at once and each is just under an hour long.
Our lead character Michaela "Mickey" Fitzpatrick is played by Amanda Seyfried who I first saw playing Lily Caine in Veronica Mars back in the day. I know she's done a lot of other things since then but I haven't seen most of them. Mickey Fitzpatrick is a patrol officer in the inner city of Philadelphia, where she grew up. She takes a special interest in the homeless people in the area, at least partly because her younger sister is one of them. She's also got a young son whose father is rarely around for reasons that are revealed as we get into the series.
Several teenage girls have been found dead in the area and the initial assumption is that they had overdosed but Mickey discovers that one of them had blood in her mouth which is apparently unusual in overdose cases and suggests homicide. The medical examiner determines that it was indeed a homicide - via insulin - and that two other recent deaths, also thought to be overdoses were also murders by insulin.
Mickey is not very much appreciated by her fellow police, including her supervisor, so she investigates largely on her own, with the help of her former partner, Truman, who is off work recovering from an injury she feels partly responsible for. But he's basically the only guy she feels she can trust.
As the investigation continues, we learn a lot about Mickey and her sister Kacey and why their relationship is so troubled. We also learn that Mickey was a skilled musician (English horn) who gave up pursuing her musical dream.
Having finished the first 5 of the 8 episodes, I thought I'd mention it here in case you were curious about it. IMDB gives it a 6.9 rating, which I suppose is fair. It's not brilliant but I'm finding it watchable.
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Rhino