Katharine Everett appears in “Reality Check,” the pilot episode of Life of Riley, a single-camera comedy produced by Colony Bay TV and available to stream on Roku.
The show is a mockumentary set on a living-history farm, where a crew of costumed reenactors recreate the American Revolution for school groups by day and try to keep an actual period drama, Courage, New Hampshire, in production on the side. The pilot follows farm owner Jim Riley through one unraveling day: his business partner has quietly invited a Hollywood reality-TV producer out to the farm (letting Jim believe the man wants to help with the serious drama), while a state compliance inspector Jim calls “the Blob” trails him enforcing increasingly absurd food-allergy rules, and a newly hired historian keeps refusing to play his redcoat villain in character.
Everett plays Peggy Shaw, who works the farm’s kitchen and tavern and performs the first-person Revolutionary scenes for visiting students. In her standout moment, a redcoat officer orders Peggy to turn her sick sister out of bed to make room for a billeted soldier; she refuses, and when he threatens her, she answers with a faceful of flour, to the delight of the watching schoolkids.
Life of Riley was produced and distributed by Colony Bay TV and is available to stream on Roku.
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