'Briarpatch': TV Review | TIFF19
is a mystery with series dysmorphia. The adaptation of Ross Thomas' novel has the spine and spirit of a down-and-dirty pulp thriller, but when it looks at itself in the mirror, it sees a Southwestern version ofepisodes, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, aren't surreal or evocative enough for the latter and they lack the gut-level pleasures of the former.
Dawson plays Allegra Dill — people call her "Pick," short for "Pickle" — an investigator working for an ambitious senator , who returns to her mid-sized Texas hometown of San Bonifacio after her sister, a local detective, is killed. After getting tossed back into the proverbial briarpatch of her youth, Pick discovers several things: Her sister seemed to have an amount of money that points to corruption and may have contributed to her death.
That's a lot of history and background for series creator Andy Greenwald to fill in — Edi Gathegi plays a chatty local lawyer whose name might as well be "Exposition Jones" — and a lot of mysteries to introduce.is least successful establishing itself as a whodunnit, which is partially a product of Pick's character. She's a cool woman in a hot place and it's a running plot point that Pick and her sister weren't especially close.
The attempts to craft hard-boiled dialogue between the characters are better, though the exchanges are rarely as stand-alone-clever as the show, prone to grinding to a halt for attempted banter, thinks.
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