High Desert

Matt Roush says...

Emmy and Oscar winner Patricia Arquette is a riot—and an absolute wreck—in a quirky dark comedy as Peggy, a barely recovering addict in California’s arid Yucca Valley whose messy dead-end life picks up when she decides to try her hand at being a private eye. She’s unconventional, to say the least, and her various sets of wheels make Jim Rockford’s Firebird look like a luxury vehicle. Working (barely) alongside a burned-out P.I. played by Brad Garrett, Peggy recklessly follows leads that entangle her with shady art collectors and a self-styled guru (Homeland’s Rupert Friend) in a truly bizarre caper. Bernadette Peters co-stars as Peggy’s beloved dead mother—and a stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance to her. Or is this just another of Peggy’s hallucinations? Launching with three episodes.

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