In Katori Hall’s drama P-Valley, the strippers working the pole are also complicated women with vivid lives.
Hollywood generally lumps onscreen strippers into three categories: soul-broken victims, fur-draped divas, or dead-eyed set dressing.
But man, do they know how to work that pole.
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(Uncle Clifford prefers female pronouns, yall.)
(Complicating matters, they plan to build the Promised Land Casino and Resort right over the Pynk.)
(The 2015 production, which received solid reviews, had a three-hour run time.)
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The plotting is convoluted at times, and the ongoing hints about Autumns traumatic past feel unnecessarily vague.
But Halls characters and the cast especially Evans and Annan are vibrant and compelling.
Patrice scolds, confronting her daughter in the Pynks parking lot after her set.
