Buoyed by a wacko, drugged-out, sunburnt, New Age-y energy, the new Apple TV+ series 'High Desert' is ramshackle in the right ways, led by Patricia Arquette’s tour-de-force of mad, messy, brazen desperation and determination. Our review by nschager:
), all while mourning the recent loss of her beloved mother Roslyn and her continuing estrangement from her son Ethan.
Moreover, she’s at odds with her siblings Dianne and Stewart , who view her as an unrepentant screw-up and want her to move out of their mom’s house so they can sell it. Adding to Peggy’s woes, she’s a recovering addict who’s attempting to stick to a methadone treatment course. Her difficulty maintaining her sobriety lendsits trippy verve, with Peggy routinely finding herself incapable of resisting the tabs of acid she has stashed in an old narcotics case. If staying lucid is a challenge, so too is making sure she’s not evicted by her siblings from her home.
Not content to keep things simple, Fichman, Ford, and Hoppe-House’s series spins a convoluted web that eventually ensnares Peggy’s best friend Carol , who’s dealing with a delinquent teen stepdaughter , as well as Arman , a crook who’s not very happy about being swindled by Guru Bob, and sets his imposing, nipple-slicing daughter Heather on him.
Amazingly, this isn’t all the series has to offer, since its main narrative throughline involves Peggy trying to establish her PI bona fides—and earn enough money to keep her mom’s ranch house—by collecting a reward for information regarding the whereabouts of Guru Bob’s MIA wife Dona , who happens to be a member of a New York mob family with roots in Yucca Valley.
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