What with this and the tiger story, I’m beginning to wonder if the USA is turning into a Briarpatch tribute.
Briarpatch (Wednesday, Alibi, 9pm/10pm)
“San Bonifacio — It stays with you!” The town at the heart of this idiosyncratic ten-part thriller, based on the 1984 novel by Ross Thomas, has the best welcome sign since Royston Vasey. There’s been a breakout at the zoo and crocodiles, kangaroos and giraffes are hanging out in the parks and boulevards of this seedy Texas town; more worryingly, the tiger is still on the loose. It’s an ominous wild backdrop to the main story: glamorous big-city investigator Allegra Dill (the excellent Rosario Dawson) returning to her hometown to find out who killed her sister, a homicide detective. With its BBQ signs and dissolute bars, this is expertly drawn border town noir, the frequent aura of decay and corruption —
