Sandmanreviews Review of The Horror of Dolores Roach

The Horror of Dolores Roach (2023)

Tasteless drama that is neither horror nor comedy

[1/10 · 27 August 2023]

This series main character is Dolores Roach who is released from a long prison sentence where she took the blame for crimes her boyfriend committed. Since she doesn't know about anything better, she returns to the old neighborhood she used to live in, Washington Heights. To her surprise the old hood has changed character and been gentrified. Her old boyfriend is gone as well as the money that he and she have hidden. Of a coincidence she bumps into Luis, a person she knew in the past and who is now owning an Empanada shop. Since she has no place to live she is offered to crash in his basement. To earn money she starts a massage business in the same basement. So far the plot is quite interesting, but now it starts to go off the rails. When the landlord shows up and demands rent from Luis, which Luis doesn't have money for, Dolores offer the landlord her money that she keeps in the basement. The landlord follows her to the basement. The money isn't enough, but Dolores offer him massage. He accepts the offer. He starts talking and says something that upsets Dolores. She gets upset and out of a mistake she kills him. She runs away in panic. When she returns the body is gone. She later gets to know that Luis has butchered the body and made Empanadas out of it. This is basically the plot from now on. People are being killed on the massage table and turned into Empanadas. The plot revolves around how Luis and Dolores tries to hide the murders. However, the acting isn't very convincing and it feels like a standard sitcom but with some murders thrown in. Very few people can butcher a body and even fewer can engage in cannibalism. Luis doesn't convince the viewer to be one of them. The plot isn't exciting at all and I can't see what's funny with cannibalism. It ends up as a tasteless sitcom drama that is neither scary nor funny. If they kept the story to where it started, which was Dolores search for her old boyfriend and her lost money, it would have been a much more interesting plot. But Prime choose to make a series filled with blood and gore instead of telling a good story.