High Desert
(Apple TV+) With all the deserved plaudits for the Columbo-esque Poker Face, it’s been all too easy to miss the fact that it was not 2023’s only excellent series revolving around an unlikely female private investigator – and helmed by acting royalty. Patricia Arquette’s joyously dishevelled turn as a drug-raddled ex-dealer who decides to go into crime-fighting is a surreal, raucous treat. If anything, the outrageous twists and turns of this wryly comic series were even more out there than Natasha Lyonne’s series.
