In the new Apple TV+ comedy noir series “High Desert,” Patricia Arquette and Matt Dillon play an off-and-on again couple so naturally that it seems like they must have starred together in some iconic 1990s indie movie. Surprisingly, they haven’t, but the off-kilter, sun-baked menace of films like Arquette starrers “True Romance” and “Lost Highway” permeates the new series, which is peopled with what Arquette calls “wild and weird creatures” in an environment that alternates between arid beauty and strip mall desolation.
In “High Desert,” Arquette’s methadone-dependent, perennial wild child Peggy Newman could not be more different than her buttoned-up “Severance” character Harmony Cobel, whether she’s piloting a dune buggy around the desert, swinging from a chandelier in a Pioneertown Old West show or getting mixed up with another half-baked scam. Peggy, who recently lost her mother, needs to raise money to stay in their house. She...
In “High Desert,” Arquette’s methadone-dependent, perennial wild child Peggy Newman could not be more different than her buttoned-up “Severance” character Harmony Cobel, whether she’s piloting a dune buggy around the desert, swinging from a chandelier in a Pioneertown Old West show or getting mixed up with another half-baked scam. Peggy, who recently lost her mother, needs to raise money to stay in their house. She...
- 5/19/2023
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
DVD Release Date: July 8, 2014
Price: DVD $29.93
Studio: Shout! Factory
Lovers of Showtime’s Homeland, the show is based on the award-winning Isreali TV show Prisoners of War.
The drama television series tells the story of three Israeli soldiers who are held captive for 17 years and their struggles to reconnect with their family and friends and rejoin society after they’re released. When secrets from the years that they were imprisoned surface, resentment and suspicion threaten to destroy their lives again.
Created by Gideon Raff, the foreign show has been the number one drama in Israel since 2011.
The Prisoners of War: Season One DVD contains three discs with all 10 episodes plus these bonus features:
“An Open Wound: Making Prisoners of War,” including interviews with the cast and creator Gideon Raffepisode commentaries with Gideon Raff and director of photography Itai Neeman.
Buy or Rent Prisoners of War: Season One
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Price: DVD $29.93
Studio: Shout! Factory
Lovers of Showtime’s Homeland, the show is based on the award-winning Isreali TV show Prisoners of War.
The drama television series tells the story of three Israeli soldiers who are held captive for 17 years and their struggles to reconnect with their family and friends and rejoin society after they’re released. When secrets from the years that they were imprisoned surface, resentment and suspicion threaten to destroy their lives again.
Created by Gideon Raff, the foreign show has been the number one drama in Israel since 2011.
The Prisoners of War: Season One DVD contains three discs with all 10 episodes plus these bonus features:
“An Open Wound: Making Prisoners of War,” including interviews with the cast and creator Gideon Raffepisode commentaries with Gideon Raff and director of photography Itai Neeman.
Buy or Rent Prisoners of War: Season One
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- 4/15/2014
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
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