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High Desert

★ 6.3 6K votes 2023–2023 1 season · 8 episodes Canceled Apple TV
Strong female leadA complex woman drives the story.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Patricia ArquetteBrad GarrettWeruche OpiaBernadette PetersRupert FriendMatt Dillon
Written by
Nancy FichmanKatie FordJennifer Hoppe
Starring
Patricia ArquetteBrad GarrettWeruche OpiaBernadette PetersRupert FriendMatt Dillon
Written by
Nancy FichmanKatie FordJennifer Hoppe
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"A grief-soaked crime caper carried by one performance"

After her eccentric mother dies, a recovering addict with a chaotic past stumbles into an amateur private-investigator gig chasing a stolen art heist and a shady conman. It's a loose, sun-bleached crime comedy set in the California desert, built around one big, unpredictable lead performance rather than a tight plot. The tone wobbles between deadpan absurdity and genuine sadness about grief and relapse. It moves slowly, favors character quirks over mystery mechanics, and feels more like hanging out with a mess of a person than following a caper.

Watch it for

a wildly loose, funny lead performance anchoring an otherwise shaggy mystery.

Maybe skip if

you want a tightly plotted crime story rather than character-driven meandering.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12023
6.82K84h 1m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Pain Management6.6
30437 min
▶2Two Knockers and No Boyfriend = A Felony6.8
23929 min
▶3I'm Getting Close to This Guru Bastard6.9
19732 min
▶4Get Judy off the Bed6.7
17633 min
▶5Soul Retrieval6.8
16225 min
▶6A Nod Is Not a Hello7.0
15329 min
▶7This Doesn't Have to Be a Tragedy6.8
14830 min
▶8I Need a Hero6.5
15626 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Patricia Arquette Peggy
Brad Garrett Bruce Harvey
Weruche Opia Carol
Bernadette Peters Roslyn, Ginger
Rupert Friend Guru Bob
Matt Dillon Denny
Eric Petersen Owen
Jayden Gomez Cooper
Jeffrey Vincent Parise Roger
Kellen Joseph William

Crew

Nancy Fichman
Katie Ford
Jennifer Hoppe

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