Everything is not sunny in Philadelphia on the small screen this week.

Both Apple TV+’s Dope Thief — review coming Thursday — and Peacock’s Long Bright River set stories of blue-collar murder and misery against the relative hopefulness of the complicated relationships between their two main characters.

One of the shows starts extremely well, with its focus on that central relationship, but struggles in its second half. The other struggles through its first half, but resolves reasonably well once it makes its way to what was always supposed to be the heart of the story.

The second series is Long Bright River, which closes with two emotionally effective episodes that mostly hit their target, despite some over-obvious plot twists; a climax that’s a lesser version of the ending of a better prestige drama from last year; and a laughable moment in which somebody finally gets around to saying the series’ title.