‘P-Valley’: TV Review

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Last year’s film “Hustlers” depicted the strip club as the staging-ground for the revolution, with its arch-capitalist dancers redistributing the wealth of their New York financie…

and based on her stage play, is set in a similar milieu, but unfolds at a somewhat more deliberate pace. Its strip club, the Pynk, is in a small Mississippi Delta town and operates at a pace somewhat less frenetic; it’s a club whose dancers often want not the world but simply their own place carved out within it. Mercedes , for instance, has been saving for years in order to open a gym for the squad of high-school dancers she teaches.

The show is at its best in the backstage moments, with a dancer attempting to find someone to hold her baby so she can finish her prep to take the floor, or arguments over liquor consumption before work, or with sly comments that perpetually threaten to pop into outright animosity. The club is a rivalrous place, destabilized by the arrival of Autumn ; it’s also a wellspring of mutual support.

 

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