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I got tired of TV-drama strip-club scenes a long time ago.
Strippers dance in the background.
Theres sex, too, of course, and love and secrets.
Its not a show about the cops or the gangsters.
Mercedes spends most of the season insisting that shes leaving the Pynk.
For Keyshawn, being an exotic dancer is more safe and more loving than her abusive home life.
Success looks like sticking around, because the Pynk is still more stable than whatever else youre running toward.
Its hard to divorce it from the thing its responding to, andP-Valleydeserves to have its own space.
Its dance cinematography somehow encompasses the full range of those contradictions.
There are a few small things that really sold it for me.
They both create frenzies, and they both make people want to empty their pockets.
Neither act is inherently more worthy than the other.
It feels like a question mark hanging in the air.
Why did it take so long for these women to be the main characters?
