On Monday, Prime Video announced that The Horror of Dolores Roach will premiere on the streamer on July 7. With Justina Machado as the lead, the series is a thriller and dark comedy series based on a popular podcast of the same name.
In the series, Dolores Roach (Machado) is released from prison after 16 years and returns to a severely-gentrified Washington Heights with $200 and the clothes on her back. With her boyfriend gone missing, and long gone family, Dolores reunites with an old stoner buddy, Luis (Hernandez), who gives her room to board and lets her give massages for cash in the basement under his dilapidated storefront Empanada Loca, the only remnant of her former life.
When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, Dolores is driven to shocking extremes to survive and in the face of unexpected professional success, Dolores and Luis become dangerously symbiotic, and Luis must unleash his peculiar predilections.
Alejandro Hernandez, Kita Updike, K Todd Freeman, Marc Maron, Jean Yoon, Judy Reyes, and Jeffery Self, and others form the rest of the cast. The Horror of Dolores Roach was initially a one-woman play called Empanada Loca, created by Aaron Mark. Going on to develop, write, and direct the original podcast series, Mark has also penned the pilot script.
