→ IT’S NOT OFTEN THAT A STORY idea gets to make the adaptation rounds in multiple media, but that speaks to the delightfully twisted premise of The Horror Of Dolores Roach. Aaron Mark originally developed it as a one-woman show that gender-inverts the 19th century melodrama Sweeney Todd. It became a stage hit with Daphne Rubin-Vega playing ex-con Dolores Roach – who stayed in the title role when it was turned into a Spotify podcast drama of the same name.
Now is an eight-episode Prime Video horror-comedy series starring Justina Machado () as Dolores, a young woman who takes the fall for her drug-dealer boyfriend and does 16 years in prison. When she gets out, that boyfriend has vanished, and she has no money and no family.
