Complex sentence: Nighttime TV soap queen, Alyssa Rampart-Pillage (Beth Broderick), is a has-been, but her career is restarted once she's accused of murdering her husband, Bernie (Chris Mulkey), the appliance king of the San Fernando Valley.
Split into simpler sentences: Nighttime TV soap star, Alyssa Rampart-Pillage (Beth Broderick), is a has-been. But her career is restarted when she's accused of murdering her husband, Bernie (Chris Mulkey), the appliance kind of the San Fernando Valley.