Peneliope Richards

Note: This article was written and reported in 2021, and was originally going to be published in Vox. It is now free of Google Drive's shackles. $90. That's how much money I received from family and friends on my 10th birthday. In the summer of 2003, that meant a $45 Simpson's game from GameStop and making it rain at the Scholastic book fair. Now, almost 18 years later, $90 accounts for 10.2% of my Social Security Income (SSI) payment and is put toward electricity and WIFI expenses.

It has been a Mississippi minute since viewers of the Katori Hill-created P-Valley have enjoyed the Starz drama gracing their TV screens on a Sunday night at 10. With the show's last episode of P-Valley Season 2 airing on August 14, 2022, its absence has left a big hole in the hearts of committed viewers. P-Valley's time away from the silver screen is thanks to a lawsuit claiming that P-Valley's premise was taken from another creative in the industry, in addition to the WGA and SAG strikes.