Justina Machado-Led ‘The Horror Of Dolores Roach’ Gets Prime Video Premiere Date
deadline.comBlumhouse’s The Horror of Dolores Roach is set to premiere on July 7 via Prime Video. The 8-episode series—based on the hit Gimlet podcast series of the same name— tells the story of Dolores Roach (Justina Machado), a recently released prisoner who after 16 years returns to find a severely-gentrified Washington Heights with $200 and the clothes on her back.
Her boyfriend missing, her family long gone, Dolores reunites with an old stoner buddy, Luis (Alejandro Hernandez), who gives her room and board and lets her give massages for cash in the basement under his dilapidated storefront Empanada Loca, the only remnant of her former life.
When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, “Magic Hands Dolores” is driven to shocking extremes to survive, and in the face of unexpected professional success, Dolores and Luis become dangerously symbiotic, and Luis must unleash his own peculiar predilections.
Kita Updike, K. Todd Freeman, Jean Yoon, Judy Reyes and Jeffery Self also star. Written and directed by podcast creator Aaron Mark, The Horror of Dolores Roach originally was developed by Mark as a one-woman play starring Daphne Rubin-Vega.
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