Perhaps it is a sign that I have watched too much television, or a sign that television has watched too much television and all entertainment is about to eat itself in the tri-meta-po-mo world we live in – but my overriding thought when watching Patricia Arquette’s magnificent turn in High Desert is: “This is what it would be like if a Jennifer Coolidge character was real.” Which I think is, overall, a compliment, and for Arquette and her writers a triumph.
On the other hand, it can make things exhausting. High Desert is many things but it is not a bingewatch. In fact, it is precisely because it is so many things that you are better off consuming it as a weekly half-hour treat than a straight eight-episode feast.
