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‘Under the Bridge’ EPs Unpack the Finale and Critique the True Crime Genre: ‘We Did Not Want to Make Copaganda’
'Under the Bridge' creator Quinn Shepard and showrunner Samir Mehta discuss the series finale and their critiques of the true crime genre.
Rebecca’s process of writing about the murder and her interactions with a fictionalized Native police officer named Cam (Lily Gladstone) frame the series, helping it contend with its own place in the true crime genre. Mehta and Shepard spoke with Variety about the archival research and creative liberties that went into “Under the Bridge” and their attempts to make a true crime series that critiques that justice system and avoids sensationalism. Since Cam was a fictionalized police officer, what drove you to write the scene where she discovers she was taken from her birth family rather than being put up for adoption, which later leads her to quit the force?
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