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With the sheer amount of content dropping on streaming platforms every other week, it’s easy to miss a few absolute gems while trying to keep up with the latest viral hit. While you were busy bingeing the big-budget blockbusters and award-winning juggernauts, Prime Video was quietly building a lineup of underrated shows that are so good they deserve to be shouted from the rooftops.

We’re talking about shows that make you go, “Wait, how did I not know about this one?!” — series that aren’t getting algorithm love but are bursting with creativity, emotion, and totally binge-worthy storytelling. Some are moody and artistic. Others are hilariously offbeat or deeply emotional in a way that hits harder than expected. But all of them have one thing in common that they all went unnoticed.

So grab a snack, cancel your plans, and get ready to discover 10 hidden treasures that deserve...

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Sweetpea is a dark comedy crime drama series created by Kirstie Swain. Based on the 2017 book of the same name by author Cj Skuse, the Starz series follows Rhiannon, a young woman with a traumatic past leading a quiet life working as an admin assistant at a local newspaper but a chance encounter with a complete stranger turns her life upside down. Sweetpea stars Fallout‘s Ella Purnell in the lead role with Nicôle Lecky, Jon Pointing, Leah Harvey, Jeremy Swift, and Dustin Demri-Burns starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the dark comedy, thrilling story, and compelling characters in Sweetpea here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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You is a psychological crime thriller drama series developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble. Based on the...

Exclusive: Longtime Industry Entertainment managers Adam Levine, Brandy Rivers and Michael Hepburn have left to start a new management/production company that they have named Amplified. The trio, who come from talent and lit (Rivers) backgrounds, are bringing all of their clients to the new venture.

Levine spent 12 years in the talent department at Industry having previously co-run his own management firm Levine Okwu Erickson. His clients include Scott Grimes, Jake Borelli (Grey’s Anatomy), Sara Waisglass (Ginny and Georgia), Casey Cott (Riverdale), Spencer MacPherson, Melissa O’Neil (The Rookie), Tori Anderson (NCIS: Hawai’i), Floriana Lima (A Million Little Things), Sarah Bock (Severance), Evan Ellison (Bonneville), Chelsea Clark (Ginny and Georgia) and Nesta Cooper.

Rivers did stints in production and development at Bruckheimer Television and Summit Entertainment before switching to representation as an agent at ICM and Gersh and...

The Horrors of Dolores Roach is a captivating dark-comedy horror series that challenges traditional horror tropes and offers a fresh perspective on the genre. The series features a compelling protagonist in Dolores Roach, portrayed by Justina Machado, who undergoes a nuanced and emotionally charged journey that blurs the lines between right and wrong. The visual aesthetics of the show, including set design and cinematography, create an immersive and chilling experience, while the unconventional storytelling techniques and social commentary add depth to the narrative.

Where horror meets humor, The Horrors of Dolores Roach comes as a compelling dark-comedy horror series that has captivated audiences with its unsettling charm. With chilling yet strangely amusing experiences, it’s based on the one-woman off-broadway play and podcast by Aaron Mark, Empanada Loca. It follows Dolores Roach, played by Justina Machado, as she’s released from an unjust 16-year prison sentence and returns to her...

I was always under the impression that Blumhouse’s Prime Video cannibal series The Horror of Dolores Roach (read our review Here) was going to be an eight episode limited series, but apparently there was hope for a second season, because The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Prime Video has decided to cancel the show. So the eight episode first season is all we’re getting after all.

The news of the cancellation comes four months after all eight episodes of The Horror of Dolores Roach were released on the same day back in July.

Based on the Gimlet podcast of the same name, The Horror of Dolores Roach came from Blumhouse Television, Gimlet, and GloNation Studios. The show tells the following story: After serving a 16-year prison sentence, the title character (Machado) returns to a gentrified Washington Heights with $200 and the clothes on her back. Her boyfriend missing, her family long gone,...

Based on the hit podcast, Prime Video debuted the Amazon Original series “The Horror of Dolores Roach” this past July, and we’ve learned the series has been cancelled.

After just one season, “The Horror of Dolores Roach” is no more at Prime Video.

Justina Machado starred in the first season of “Dolores Roach.”

The eight-episode, half-hour series is a contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired tale, a macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest.

In the series, “Dolores Roach is released from prison after 16 years and returns to 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, 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.

There will be no new seasons of “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” “Harlan Coben’s Shelter” or “With Love” at Prime Video, the streamer announced on Tuesday.

Originally created by Aaron Mark as a one-woman play, “Empanada Loca,” Mark created, wrote, and directed the original podcast and penned the pilot script for “The Horror of Dolores Roach.” The series followed the titular character (played by Justina Machado), “who returns to a gentrified Washington Heights, where she reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis, who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, ‘Magic Hands’ Dolores is driven to shocking extremes to survive,” reads the official description.

Mark also served as co-showrunner and executive producer with Dara Resnik, alongside executive producers Daphne Rubin-Vega, Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, Jeremy Gold and Chris Dickie for Blumhouse Television; Dawn Ostroff,...

The cancelations continue ahead of the holiday weekend.

Amazon has axed a trio of scripted series from its Prime Video service: The Horror of Dolores Roach, Harlan Coben’s Shelter, and With Love are all ending.

The Horror of Dolores Roach and Harlan Coben’s Shelter ran for one season, while With Love is ending after two seasons.

They are the latest cancelations at the streamer over the last few months following shows such as The Peripheral and A League of Their Own, which had both been renewed before those decisions were reversed.

Related: ‘The Peripheral’ Canceled; Prime Video Not Proceeding With Season 2 Amid Lengthy Strikes

While it’s clear that broadcasters and streamers are canceling a slew of shows coming out of the writers and actors strikes, a drastic reduction of original scripted series has been on the cards for some time as Hollywood continues to cut costs.

It...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for The Horror of Dolores Roach finale.

The Horror of Dolores Roach is a TV adaptation of the popular podcast, following the story of an ex-convict who becomes involved in a series of gruesome murders and cannibalism. Executive producer Dara Resnik played a key role in preserving the tone and character relationships from the podcast, while also adding new elements and surprises for fans. The portrayal of Dolores Roach, played by Justina Machado, successfully elicits empathy from the audience despite her murderous actions, largely due to Machado's exceptional audition and her ability to switch between sympathetic and threatening emotions.

Based on the podcast created by Aaron Mark, all episodes of The Horror of Dolores Roach are currently available to binge on Prime Video. The story follows an ex-convict who returns to her home in Washington Heights after serving an unjust prison sentence. Forced to start over,...

Exclusive: Chris McCumber is departing Blumhouse Television after three years as President. The unit’s President of Production, Jeremy Gold, will step into the top role on an interim basis. A search is underway for a new head of the TV group, which is getting downsized, with several people — believed to be fewer than 10 — being laid off today. (Blumhouse’s total headcount in film and TV is almost 100.)

The staff reductions are coming mostly from the TV division’s Creative and Business Affairs departments, sources said. The unscripted group, led by Gretchen Palek, will remain intact, as will Blumhouse’s shared services groups including Production, Casting, Hr, Marketing and Finance.

Blumhouse TV scripted head Chris Dickie (EVP Scripted Programming and Development) is staying put and will be assisting Gold during the transition, with Gold stepping up his role on the slate of Blumhouse TV series that are expected to go...

The Horror of Dolores Roach is a psychological thriller series created by Aaron Mark. The Prime Video series tells the story of Dolores Roach (Justina Machado), a woman recently released from an unjust prison sentence. After getting out Dolores is reunited with an old friend who gives her work but when her new and stable life is once again in danger she is ready to do anything to protect it. The Horror of Dolores Roach also stars Alejandro Hernandez, Cyndi Lauper, Justina Machado, Judy Reyes, and Marc Maron. So, if you loved the Prime Video series here are some similar shows you could watch until The Horror of Dolores Roach Season 2 comes out.

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Synopsis: Part survival epic, part psychological horror and part coming-of-age drama, this is the story of a team of wildly talented high school girls’ soccer players who survive a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness.

Picture this: It's the early 2000s, and you're a typical New Yorker living with the love of your life, who happens to run the block. You're stashing money in your cozy apartment and saving for that dream house in Jersey, but one fateful day, while alone at home, you get busted by the police during a simple cannabis transaction. The next 16 years of your life are spent behind bars because you steadfastly refused to snitch on your hustler soulmate, whose phone line has suddenly become unreachable.

Having lost over a decade of your life for a substance that can now be found at a local shop in your not-so-recognizable gentrified Washington Heights, you're desperately in need of a place to stay, a job, and answers as to why your no-good ex left you to rot. Then you stumble across an old but charmingly unconventional neighbor, the owner of the only...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Horror of Dolores Roach.The Horror of Dolores Roach season 2 gets an optimistic update from series creator Aaron Mark. Based on both an off-Broadway play and the podcast of the same name, the Prime Video series stars Justina Machado as the titular Dolores Roach. Released from an unjust prison sentence after 16 years, she returns to find the neighborhood of Washington Heights gentrified. Things only get worse from there in the black horror-comedy, with Dolores going to extremes to survive when her newfound stability is threatened.

In an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, Mark strikes an optimistic tone about The Horror of Dolores Roach season 2. The executive producer and show creator gives a spoiler-filled response, sharing that there is "much more story to tell." Still, Mark is upfront about the fact that audiences need to watch the adaptation in order for a second installment to happen.

Much like her namesake, it seems Dolores Roach can survive under even the harshest conditions.

In The Horror of Dolores Roach Season 1 finale, it feels like Dolores’ (Justina Machado) luck might be running out. To quickly recap, so far she has murdered: the landlord’s son and the landlord himself, Jeremiah, a couple of neighborhood drug dealers, a local laundromat operator, a private investigator and maybe her sidekick Luis (Alejandro Hernandez).

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This article contains spoilers for The Horror of Dolores Roach season 1.

The Horror of Dolores Roach season 1 dropped Friday, July 7 on Prime Video, telling the story of a masseuse who kills her clients and disposes of the bodies by selling them as empanadas. Those of you who have seen it (Spoilers!) may have thought the story was over when Dolores finally found her way to an address she had been told belonged to her ex-boyfriend, with the episode cutting to black as she leaps in to strangle whoever answers the door. But according to Aaron Mark, the show’s creator (and the writer of the podcast and stage play the TV series is based on), there is still a great deal more to tell.

Of course, viewers who can’t wait to see what Dolores Roach does next have the option of checking out season two of the original podcast,...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for The Horror of Dolores Roach finale.Now available to stream on Prime Video, The Horror of Dolores Roach tells the tale of a woman who is forced to go to extreme lengths to survive. Dolores' relatability causes viewers to root for her throughout the show's eight episodes and even manages to make her killing spree feel like a mishap rather than an intentionally malicious act. With all bridges burned, and no place left to call home, Dolores flees Washington Heights in the finale's final moments, putting an end to the tale that she's been narrating since the pilot. However, the episode only concludes once Dolores seemingly finds Dominic and enacts her revenge.

The Horror of Dolores Roach is based on the Spotify podcast of the same name and was created by Aaron Mark. Mark adapted the series for television and serves as the show's writer and executive producer.

Cyndi Lauper has shared her new track “Oh, Dolores,” made for the new Prime Video series The Horror of Dolores Roach. Listen to it below.

The new single coincides with the series debut, in which Lauper makes a special guest appearance. “Oh, Dolores” sounds like it could’ve been a deep cut in her discography, blending exciting, scrappy punk with the bassy groove of new wave. Lyrically, the song serves as a foreboding message to the series’ main character: “Oh Dolores, you’ve come undone/ It happens every time, now isn’t it a crime?/ How they drag you down, Dolores,” Lauper sings.

The Horror of Dolores Roach is based on the hit Spotify fiction podcast of the same name, created and written by Aaron Mark. The first season focuses on Dolores, a woman who effectively starts her life over after having just been released from a 16-year prison sentence.

Prime Video’s cannibal dramedy series “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” based on the hit Gimlet podcast, is available to stream now. To celebrate, they’ve released Cyndi Lauper‘s new single “Oh Dolores” for the series, for your listening pleasure.

The pop queen behind “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” didn’t just create a brand new track inspired by the Sweeney Todd-like series, Lauper also appears in the series as a private investigator named Ruthie.

Lauper’s new song for the series “Oh, Dolores” is now available on all digital platforms. Co-written by Cyndi Lauper and Ben Hopkins, and produced and performed by Lauper, the song release coincides with the series premiere

The eight-episode, half-hour series is a contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired tale, a macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest.

In the series, “Dolores Roach is released from prison after...

“The Horror of Dolores Roach” is the kind of show that tries to do everything at once instead of doing one thing well. Is it a horror show? Is it a comedy? Is it a riff on “Sweeney Todd”? Is it a character study? Is it camp? Is it commentary? Yes, it’s all these things, and yes, other series have lumped many-a-genre and multiple goals into successful ongoing stories, but that first requires identifying what elements work well together.

Good horror isn’t just gore. Good comedy is, well, pretty subjective. But “Sweeney Todd” isn’t just about cannibalism, camp is earned, and commentary takes prolonged focus. The Amazon Prime Video series, adapted by creator, writer, and executive producer Aaron Mark from his one-woman play (“Empanada Loca”) and subsequent podcast (“The Horror of Dolores Roach”), never cooks any one ingredient long enough for its flavor to stand out in an overstuffed stew.

It's reductive to say that Prime Video's The Horror of Dolores Roach, starring Justina Machado, is a modern update of Sweeney Todd. Dolores Roach is that, sure, but it's much more, interpolating sharp commentary on gentrification, incarceration, and the sense that home is a fleeting thing subject to the whims of moneyed individuals who don't give a damn about anything other than the bottom line. Oh, and there's plenty of murder and cannibalism thrown in for good measure.

Outside of the Britannia Theatre, the marquee lights are dancing, and the dress-attired attendees are queued, waiting to see Dolores Roach, the hot new play starring Floria Frías (Jessica Pimentel), based on the true-crime podcast by Caleb Sweetzer (Jeffrey Self). On stage as Dolores, Floria is covered in blood in front of a massage table. Severed limbs are strewn about the stage as she delivers a monologue about an insatiable bloodlust: "I can't stop.

Thirty years ago, Cyndi Lauper made her television acting debut in the hit comedy show Mad About You. Now, the pop queen behind hit tunes like “Time After Time” and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” is returning to acting in the new series The Horror of Dolores Roach, premiering July 7 on Prime Video.

Lauper plays Ruthie, a streetwise P.I. on the hunt for missing people — moonlighting as a Broadway usher — who crosses paths with Dolores Roach (Justina Machado), a Washington Heights woman so desperate, and so wronged by an unjust world,...

Justina Machado may have sank her teeth into playing the murderous title character in “The Horror of Dolores Roach” — but she didn’t do it alone.

The new Prime Video series, premiering Friday, stars the “One Day at a Time” actress as a homicidal ex-con alongside Alejandro Hernandez’s Luis, a conspiring chef who disposes of her bodies by turning them into must-have Muy Loco empanadas.

“They’re toxic together,” she told TheWrap of the unlikely dynamic. “His crazy is crazier than her crazy, yet they need each other right now. They depend on each other. She even says it, like, no one’s ever done what he’s done for her. It’s sick. It’s twisted. But no one has ever done that… So she feels a sense of loyalty towards him.

The series is based on characters created by Aaron Mark, who turned his “Sweeney Todd”-inspired...

“I’m not the monster you’re making me out to be, seriously,” Dolores (Justina Machado) insists early in Prime Video’s The Horror of Dolores Roach. “I’m just like you, if everything went wrong.” Frankly, it’s a difficult assertion to swallow. By this point, we’re already aware she’s been involved in a scheme to turn humans into pastry filling, Sweeney Todd-style. Even the most broad-minded viewer is unlikely to find much relatable about that.

But the promise of The Horror of Dolores Roach is that it’s going to try enthusiastically to mount the case anyway — and the fun of it comes from realizing it succeeds more than not. No, you won’t necessarily walk away thinking you, too, might embrace cannibalism under the right circumstances. (That particular argument is better waged in Showtime’s Yellowjackets.) But in between the sick twists, dark laughs and lively lead performances,...

The Horror of Dolores Roach is a new Prime Video series created by Aaron Mark, based on his own off-Broadway play, Empanada Loca, and its subsequent podcast adaptation. The 8-episode season is, loosely, a modern update of the tale of Sweeney Todd, a penny dreadful barber whose proclivity for murder provides the crucial ingredient for Mrs. Lovett's meat pies. Here, Todd's stand-in, Dolores Roach, is played by Justina Machado, whose boyfriend has let her take the fall for a sizable weed stash. After a 16-year sentence, Dolores returns to her old neighborhood of Washington Heights to find that gentrification has rendered the world she previously knew unrecognizable.

Among the show's many virtues is an outstanding ensemble cast, including Alejandro Hernandez, who plays the owner of an empanada shop that's the one place that hasn't changed in the neighborhood. Kita Updike, K. Todd Freeman, Judy Reyes, Jean Yoon, and many more offer great,...

Prime Video serves up something wickedly original this summer with its darkly irreverent cannibalism comedy The Horror of Dolores Roach. Based on the hit Spotify podcast series of the same name, think of it as a modern-day tale of love, mood swings, betrayal, weed, survival, and, well yes, cannibalism.

Starring Justina Machado, Alejandro Hernandez (New Amsterdam), model Kita Updike, and K. Todd Freeman (A Series of Unfortunate Events), the eight-episode horror comedy series hails from Aaron Mark, who took the premise of his one-woman play Empanada Loca and expanded it into an online sensation. In this streaming version, the creator gives audiences a memorable protagonist in Dolores, who’s becoming a serial killer, but not a sociopath.

Here’s the lowdown: After being released from a 16-year prison sentence, Dolores (Justina Machado) returns to her suddenly gentrified Washington Heights neighborhood and reconnects with old stoner pal, Luis (Alejandro Hernandez). Feeling...

Plot: Dolores Roach is released after an unjust 16-year prison sentence, and she returns to a now-gentrified Washington Heights neighborhood. She reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis, who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is threatened, she must go to extremes to survive.

Review: It is tough to say whether the golden age of television is thriving or ending. With the streaming wars imploding, the depth and breadth of content on the small screen has never been bigger. But, with dozens upon dozens of series, many’s quality seems questionable. The latest series to debut is The Horror of Dolores Roach. A co-production between Amazon Studios and Blumhouse, The Horror of Dolores Roach is an adaptation of the hit podcast of the same name, which, in turn, was an adaptation of a stage play.

Over the past few years, no other form of media has had as meteoric a rise as podcasts. It seems as if in 2023, podcasts have become a crucial part of our everyday lives, whether in the form of news updates, celebrity interviews, or audio fiction. For many with busy lives, it can be hard to find the time to sit and binge the latest Netflix series or travel to the theater to indulge in the newest blockbuster, leaving podcasts the most efficient way of consuming some of the most celebrated stories being told today. One such podcast series that has captured the attention of an enormous amount of fans is The Horror of Dolores Roach. Written by Aaron Mark and debuting in 2016, the series took the burgeoning podcast-fiction genre by storm and has become one of its most widely-appreciated offerings to date. Given its success, it was only a matter...

Forget superheroes. Hollywood has expanded its creative palate with stories about cannibalism, and viewers are tuning in. The subject matter may be an acquired taste for audiences, but between Dahmer—Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story on Netflix, Yellowjackets on Showtime, and the Timothy Chalamet-led romantic horror film Bones and All, nobody seems to mind.

Enter The Horror of Dolores Roach, the new Prime Video series that offers a wicked spin on the legend of Sweeney Todd, which became a highlight of 19th-century melodrama in London and spawned the popular Sweeney Todd musical. In this inspired outing, the beleaguered protagonist is the delightful titular Dolores Roach (Justina Machado of One Day at a Time and Jane The Virgin).

Dolores haphazardly falls down an emotional rabbit hole only to be propped up by her befuddled but lovable old pal Luis (Alejandro Hernandez of New Amsterdam), who runs a flailing empanada joint in Washington Heights.

Amazon Original series “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” based on the hit Gimlet podcast, isn’t shy about its influences. Giving a contemporary, gentrification spin on the Victorian cannibalism tale of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the new series from creator Aaron Mark injects winking nods at every turn and then some, including a reference to William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. As tongue-in-cheek as these knowing references can be, it also underscores how familiar Dolores Roach’s predicament can be, though it’s offset by Justina Machado’s relatable and empathetic performance.

Much like Sweeney Todd, we meet Machado’s Dolores Roach at the far end of a lengthy prison sentence she didn’t quite earn. Dolores took the fall for her drug dealer boyfriend Dominic and spent sixteen years in jail, and her release leaves her with very little to her name in a now-gentrified Washington Heights.

Justina Machado holds nothing back when asked about her twisted new horror comedy The Horror of Dolores Roach. “I really wanted to be a part of it," beamed the Jane the Virgin and One Day at a Time star. In fact, she had listened to creator Aaron Mark’s hit podcast of the same name about an ex-con turned massage therapist whose “magic hands” suddenly become a lethal weapon.

That would be the show’s titular character, Dolores, who follows up her 16-year prison sentence by doing massages in the basement of her friend Luis’ (Alejandro Hernandez of the medical drama New Amsterdam), struggling empanada shop. Through a series of truly macabre slip ups, Delores acquires a body count. And Luis finds a new filling for his empanadas…

Dark, twisted, fun, and irreverent, this offbeat comedy should turn heads when it lands on Prime Video July 7. It’s been a...

It’s a classic story. A man sets himself up as a barber, starts killing his customers, robs them of their riches, then disposes of the bodies by chopping them up into bits and selling them out of the pie shop next door. The story first appeared in the penny dreadful serial, The String of Pearls in 1845, and has gone on to be retold in plays, movies, and most famously, a musical.

It is a story that Aaron Mark has always been a fan of.

“I’ve loved Sweeney Todd for as long as I can remember, I always say it’s one of the great cannibalism stories that our species has ever produced,” he tells Den of Geek.

Over the years Mark has consumed many different versions of the tale.

“I’m partial to the first surviving film version of Sweeney Todd – the black and white film starring Tod Slaughter,...

Premiering exclusively on Prime Video Friday, July 7th, The Horror of Dolores Roach is adapted from Aaron Mark's original Spotify podcast. The series follows ex-convict, Dolores Roach, as she attempts to put her life back together after serving a 16-year prison sentence. Desperate for a place to stay, Dolores seeks refuge from an old friend who allows her to run a massage clinic from the basement of his empanada shop. However, things quickly take a turn for the worst, and she soon finds herself caught up in a twisted and cannibalistic tale.

In addition to playing the character in the show, Kita Updike voices Nellie Morris in The Horror of Dolores Roach podcast. Meanwhile, K. Todd Freeman, who portrays Jeremiah, is known for his work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and The Dark Knight. Justina Machado, Alejandro Hernandez, Ilan Eskenazi, Jeffery Self​​​​​​​, and Jean Yoon...

The Horror of Dolores Roach finally makes its way to Prime Video on July 7, and Screen Rant is pleased to present an exclusive clip from the new horror comedy series. Based on the hit podcast series from Gimlet Media, The Horror of Dolores Roach offers a contemporary twist on the story of Sweeney Todd. Justina Machado (One Day at a Time) stars as Dolores, who was just released from prison after an unjust 16-year sentence and finds even more hardship upon returning to Washington Heights.

The Horror of Dolores Roach season 1 consists of 8 episodes, which see Dolores taken in by her good friend Luis (Alejandro Hernandez). She lives in the basement of his empanada shop, working diligently as a masseuse until her survival instincts lead her to strike someone else down. That's when Luis has the brilliant and disturbing idea to hide the deed by turning bodies into meat for...

Blumhouse's The Horror of Dolores Roach follows the tale of the titular character as she returns to Manhattan's Washington Heights following a 16-year prison sentence. Dolores, portrayed by Justina Machado, finds that things have changed in her hometown; gentrification has taken over, and familiar faces are hard to find. But she does link up with her stoner friend, Luis (Alejandro Hernandez), the owner of a local shop, Emapanda Loca. Luis offers up his shop's basement to Dolores, where she begins to work as a massage therapist. Her new career is off to a good start, even earning her the nickname "Magic Hands," but when a tense situation with a customer turns deadly, things start to unravel. Dolores descends into a life of killing, and things get even weirder when Luis begins to use the flesh of Dolores' victims to stuff his empanadas.

Described as "a contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired urban legend of love,...

Prime Video has released a new trailer for its upcoming horror series The Horror of Dolores Roach. The upcoming Blumhouse-produced series follows the titular character, portrayed by Justina Machado, who heads home to Washington Heights after spending 16 years in prison. Once she returns, Dolores finds that gentrification has taken over, her family is gone, and her boyfriend is missing. The trailer, which you can watch below, shows Dolores reconnecting with a former stoner friend, Luis (Alejandro Hernandez), who generously allows her to live and work as a massage therapist in the basement of his empanada shop, Empanada Loca.

Dolores' new stint, where she's known as "Magic Hands" is going well at first, but when a new customer, played by Marc Maron, crosses the line, Dolores snaps. Through Dolores' doing, the customer ends up dead, marking the beginning of her descent into serial killing. But the horror doesn't end there... an...

Justina Machado stars in The Horror of Dolores Roach, the new series on Amazon’s Prime Video dropping July 7. A trailer for the eight-episode series was released (which you can see above) and it previews the capabilities of Dolores Roach’s “magic hands.”

The Amazon Original based on the Spotify podcast of the same name and created by Aaron Mark’s one-woman play Empanada Loca, is a contemporary Sweeney Toddi-inspired story. Machado plays Dolores Roach, a woman just released after an unjust 16-year prison sentence, and she returns to a gentrified Washington Heights.

Dolores reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis (Alejandro Hernández), who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, “Magic Hands” Dolores is driven to shocking extremes to survive.

Mark created, wrote, and directed the original podcast and penned the series’ pilot script.

Based on Aaron Mark's acclaimed podcast series and starring Justina Machado, Blumhouse's new cannibal horror comedy series The Horror of Dolores Roach is coming to Prime Video on July 7th, and we have a look at the official trailer ahead of its premiere!

Press Release: Culver City, California—June 12, 2023—Today, Prime Video released the official trailer for the highly anticipated new series The Horror of Dolores Roach. Starring Justina Machado, the eight-episode Amazon Original series will premiere on July 7, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories around the world. The Horror of Dolores Roach is a part of the savings, convenience, and entertainment that Prime members enjoy in a single membership.

The Horror of Dolores Roach, based on the hit Spotify podcast series of the same name, is a contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest. Dolores...

All eight episodes of Blumhouse’s cannibal series The Horror of Dolores Roach will be available to watch on the Prime Video streaming service as of July 7th – and with that date less than a month away, a trailer for the show has arrived online! You can check it out in the embed above.

Based on the Gimlet podcast of the same name, The Horror of Dolores Roach is coming to us from Blumhouse Television, Gimlet, and GloNation Studios. The show will tell the following story: After serving a 16-year prison sentence, the title character (Machado) returns to a 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, 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.

Prime Video just unveiled a brand new trailer for the Amazon Original series “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” based on the hit Gimlet podcast, ahead of its summer debut on July 7, 2023.

Meat Dolores, played by Final Destination 2’s Justina Machado, in the trailer below.

Is it just me or is anyone else craving empanadas?

The eight-episode, half-hour series is a contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired tale, a macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest.

In the series, “Dolores Roach is released from prison after 16 years and returns to 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, 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.

Prime Video has released a trailer for “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” a new eight-episode, darkly comedic drama series set to premiere on July 7.

The show, which was originally created by Aaron Mark as a one-woman played called “Empanada Loca” and is based on the hit Spotify podcast series of the same name, is described as a “contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, cannibalism and survival of the fittest.”

Dolores Roach (“One Day At a Time” star Justina Machado) is released after an unjust 16-year prison sentence and returns to a gentrified Washington Heights, where she reunites with an old stoner friend named Luis, who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, “Magic Hands” Dolores is driven to shocking extremes to survive.

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Blumhouse’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.

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Today, Prime Video announced that the new horror dramedy series ‘The Horror of Dolores Roach’, from Blumhouse, producers of M3GAN, Spotify and GloNation, based on the hit podcast of the same name, will premiere all eight episodes on July 7, with the official first-look images out now. The eight-episode Amazon Original series will be available on July 7.

The Horror of Dolores Roach, based on the hit Spotify podcast series of the same name, is a contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest. Dolores Roach (Justina Machado) is released after an unjust 16-year prison sentence, and she returns to a gentrified Washington Heights.

Dolores reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis (Alejandro Hernandez), who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, ‘Magic Hands’ Dolores...

Prime Video has announced that all eight episodes of Blumhouse’s cannibal series The Horror of Dolores Roach will be available to watch on their streaming service as of July 7th! Along with the premiere date announcement comes the unveiling of some first look images from the show, and you can check those out at the bottom of this article.

Based on the Gimlet podcast of the same name, The Horror of Dolores Roach is coming to us from Blumhouse Television, Gimlet, and GloNation Studios. The show will tell the following story: After serving a 16-year prison sentence, the title character (Machado) returns to a 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, who gives her room and board and lets her give massages for cash in the basement under his dilapidated storefront,...

Prime Video has debuted first-look images for the Amazon Original series “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” based on the hit Gimlet podcast, ahead of its summer debut on July 7, 2023.

Final Destination 2’s Justina Machado stars in the title role.

The eight-episode, half-hour series is a contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired tale, a macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest.

The plot sees “Dolores Roach is released from prison after 16 years and returns to a severely gentrified Washington Heights with $200 and the clothes on her back. Her is boyfriend missing, her family long gone, Dolores reunites with an old stoner buddy, Luis, 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...

Pop star legend Cyndi Lauper has boarded Amazon’s upcoming series “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” an individual with knowledge of the move told TheWrap on Monday.

The “Time After Time” singer will play the recurring guest role of Ruthie — described as a Broadway theatre usher who moonlights as a private investigator and stirs up trouble for Dolores Roach.

The show started as a podcast from Gimlet Media, which announced its adaptation in September. Amazon ordered the story to series in February, according to Variety.

Lauper joins Justina Machado, who will portray Dolores Roach, as well as Alejandro Hernandez, who plays Luis, Roach’s partner in crime. Marc Maron joined the show in June 2022 to play Gideon Pearlman, Roach’s landlord.

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Cyndi Lauper has signed on for a recurring guest role in the upcoming Amazon series “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Lauper will appear in the show opposite previously announced lead Justina Machado as well as cast members Alejandro Hernandez, Kita Updike, K. Todd Freeman, Marc Maron, Jean Yoon, Judy Reyes, and Jeffery Self. The series, which is produced by Blumhouse Television, Spotify Studios, and GloNation Studios for Amazon, was ordered to series in February. It is based on the Gimlet podcast of the same name. Amazon has given the half-hour show an eight episode order.

In the series, Dolores Roach (Machado) is released from prison after 16 years and returns to 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 (Hernandez), who gives her room and board and lets her...

Marc Maron has joined “The Horror of Dolores Roach” in a recurring role, TheWrap has conformed.

Maron will play Gideon Pearlman, the landlord of Justina Machado’s Sweeney Todd-esque title character and her cohort in crime, Luis (Alejandro Hernandez).

Jean Yoon of “Kim’s Convenience” has also joined the series in a recurring role, playing Joy, who owns the laundromat next door to Empanada Loca.

Judy Reyes (“Succession,” “Scrubs”) will recur, playing local weed dealer Marcie, who becomes Dolores’ nemesis.

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Jeffery Self of “Search Party” will play Caleb, a podcaster whose episode on Empanada Loca brings in a wave of new customers. He will also recur.

The eight-episode series also stars Kita Updike and K. Todd Freeman. It’s based on the Gimlet podcast of the same name, which itself was based on the one-woman play starring Daphne Rubin-Vega.

Exclusive: Marc Maron (Glow), Jean Yoon (Kim’s Convenience), Judy Reyes, and Jeffery Self (Search Party) have joined the cast of Amazon’s The Horror of Dolores Roach in recurring roles.

They join series lead Justina Machado who plays the titular masseuse Dolores Roach, as well as previously announced Alejandro Hernandez, Kita Updike, and K. Todd Freeman.

Maron will play “Gideon Pearlman”, Luis and Dolores’ Long Island-based landlord who is the new owner of the building where they reside and is the home of Empanada Loca. Yoon will play “Joy,” who has owned the laundromat next door to Empanada Loca for nine years and becomes Dolores’ frequent customer.

Reyes will play “Marcie.” Marcie runs the neighborhood weed business and at first offers Dolores an opportunity to work for her, but when Dolores declines quickly becomes her nemesis. Self will play “Caleb,” an “up-and-coming influencer”/podcaster living in the Empanada Loca building.

Playwrightdirector Aaron Mark has a habit of leaving audiences in the dark. Not that his plays are especially hard to grasp, but the author who specializes sending chills up and down spines with his solo theatrical thrillers seems to enjoy having audience members sitting in pitch blackness for at least a part of every production. It works wonders for the creepiness factors.