‘The Torn Skirt’ and ‘The Seas’

In a past life, I worked in entertainment. My water cooler conversations were often about what movie I’d last seen in theatres or what TV show I was watching, and I’d always reply, a bit sheepishly, that I didn’t own a television (my mother eventually got me one as a housewarming present during the pandemic), though I did love going to the movies. I know my answer was (is) decidedly unusual, especially in that world. I’d tell people I prefer reading, which is true, but I do like old movies and weird movies, and frequently commit to a television series years after it has its day in the sun. Recently though, I have been paying attention to “Under the Bridge,” an adaptation of Rebecca Godfrey’s book about the murder of Reena Virk, a 14-year-old girl in British Columbia in the 1990s, the teenagers who’d done it and the moral panic it sparked.