Under the Bridge

Almost everything wrong with the series "Under the Bridge"—based on Rebecca Godfrey's 2005 nonfiction novel about teenage Canadian murder—is about conforming to the standards of TV drama, not to mention the relentlessly unpleasant characters spouting impossibly vapid dialogue. .... The murder-mystery aspect of "Under the Bridge" is more complicated than it might first appear and at moments genuinely baffling. But the details of the case and the characterizations here fit too neatly into a framework of sociological clichés.