Prime Video's Sweeney Todd-esque satire TheHorrorofDoloresRoach is filled with good ideas that never quite reach their fullest potential; roryhasopinions reviews:
Often, podcast-to-television adaptations are real-life stories that simply and artlessly recount the beats of true crime tales for streaming fodder. Much more rarely has the incredible wealth of audio fiction been mined for sharp, peppy series., adapted by dramatist Aaron Mark from his Spotify Original podcast, may lack the A-lister cred of, but packs enough moxy to carry it through its brief sub-four hour runtime.
Dolores Roach has just been released from an injudicious 16-year prison sentence for marijuana-related charges that she accepted to protect her drug-dealing boyfriend Dominic. She heads back to Washington Heights, ready to re-immerse herself in the post-9/11 forced community spirit she’s romanticised so much , but is knocked for six by the extent of gentrification that’s burrowed into her neighborhood.
Dolores finds refuge with a young stoner friend from wayback, Luis , who runs his father’s empanada kitchen. She moves in downstairs and tries to seek work as a masseuse, having shared 16 years in the same cell as a handless massage expert —but when she gets down to massaging Luis’ obnoxious landlord , she ends up snapping his neck.
This kicks off a long process of Dolores… not doing much. Well, she does continue murdering and deceiving, but dramaticallysuffers from keeping its protagonist too securely in the backseat of her own narrative. She’s too, always responding to other characters and stimuli; she’s always pushed to murder with little control over how she acts, rather than getting into any active, deliberate rhythm of being a murdering masseuse.
The character work isn’t necessarily bad, but it frustratingly misses out on being great. Luis, the cannibal empanada chef, is strangely fixated with the integrity of his business, even when its success is down to him harvesting and cooking human flesh. There’s a sharp moment where Dolores confides with Luis her anxieties about being a mean person, a completely separate and more pressing worry than her serial killing.
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