The Star's Drama P Valley is set in a black strip club in the Mississippi Delta.

The dancers are acrobatic, artistic, and independent.

The show is about their labor, but also about a wide variety of stories, about power, money,

and a community's identity.

The show is really good, and it recently returned for a second season, so we thought it would

be a good time to revisit our discussion about the first season, featuring Saraya and

Adi and McDonald and Taylor Crumpkin.

I'm Linda Holmes, and in this encore episode of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we're talking

about P Valley.

So to give you a sense of this show, if you haven't had a chance to watch it, P Valley

is from Cattori Hall, who's a playwright.

She adapted this from her own play.

It focuses a lot of its attention.

I would say on three characters, Mercedes, who's the headliner at the club, played by Brandi

Evans, Autumn, who's a new girl with a

mysterious past, played by Alarica Johnson, and Uncle Clifford, the owner of the club, played

by Nico Annen.

There are other characters too.

They show up in stories about church and music, and real estate, and local politics, and

all kinds of things.

There are clearly a lot of mysteries that are yet to be uncovered.

Saraya, you wrote a really positive review of P Valley over at the end of Feted.

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