The Horror of Dolores Roach

Matt Roush says...

The vibrant Justina Machado, so wonderful in the One Day at a Time revival, sinks her teeth into another meaty role as Dolores Roach, who we first see barging into the dressing room of an actress playing the so-called “real-life Sweeney Todd” on Broadway. How Dolores became so infamous is the basis of an eight-part ultra-dark horror comedy (with blissfully compact and addictively bite-size half-hour episodes) that finds the ex-con starting her life over as a masseuse in Washington Heights who conveniently sets up shop under an empanada shop run by stoner man-child Luis (New Amsterdam’s Alejandro Hernandez). A parable of you-are-what-you-eat Darwinism, Dolores Roach adapts Aaron Mark’s Spotify podcast series into a gripping and grisly treat.

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