The Oscar winner plays a recovering addict who takes on a new job assisting a private investigator after the death of her mother (Bernadette Peters).
. “You talk and you talk and you talk and you promise the moon,” he rants, “and all you ever deliver is a grape.” And he’s not wrong — she exhales exaggerations and flat-out lies as easily as the rest of us breathe air.
But by that point, it’s become almost charming how good she is at talking a big game. Because if Peggy’s M.O. is to overpromise and underdeliver, her show’s is the opposite. What starts out feeling like a nothing tale of a nobody sleuth in the middle of nowhere gradually blossoms over eight half-hour chapters into a bracingly bizarre mystery, in the tradition of sun-baked neo-noirs like
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