If Reena Virk had lived, she would be my age right now. Presumably, she’d have a career, or a family, or a cool car of her own — or all of the above — and she’d only occasionally think back on the social and emotional tumult of her high school days. But the capricious, desperate, and not-so-secretly violent nature of teen girls played a role in ending Reena’s life before it could even really begin, and the world has stopped several times to wonder exactly why.

Hulu’s new miniseries Under the Bridge is adapted from Rebecca Godfrey’s book of the same name. As many adaptations do, it takes certain liberties with the source material, painting Rebecca (Riley Keough) in shades that feel borrowed from Sharp Objects. She dresses in black and gives monosyllabic answers to her doting parents. There’s a mysterious loss in her past, and she clearly has a self-destructive streak. In the series premiere, Rebecca returns to her small, sleepy hometown to do some research on the secret lives of teenage girls, only to fall head-first into the story of a lifetime. (For reference, in real life, Rebecca Godfrey didn’t begin speaking to the parties involved until 1999.)

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