

“It’s crazy, right? It’s amazing, I love it,” Katori Hall, who created the series, tells Vulture, though she insists that she always writes the show’s death-defying stunt work in service of character and plot. In “Higher Ground,” the third episode of P-Valley, Starz’s new drama set in and around a strip club in the Mississippi Delta, the queen bee of the club, Mercedes, leads two of the other women in an absurdly gravity-defying stunt that involves them balancing on top of each other to form a three-part, heels-on-body-on-heels pyramid, or as some behind the scenes called it, a “double surfboard.”


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