The Horror of Dolores Roach

Right in time for Halloween, Gimlet Media has come through with what could be the most exciting fiction podcast in recent times. The Horror of Dolores Roach stars Daphne Rubin-Vega and Bobby Cannavale in lead roles and has all the trappings of an addictive binge-listen. After 16 years in prison, the indomitable Dolores Roach (Rubin-Vega) returns to a New York City neighbourhood that has changed drastically in her absence. Her boyfriend missing, her family long gone, Dolores is recognised only by an old stoner friend, Luis, who gives Dolores room and board and lets her give massages for cash in the basement apartment under his dilapidated empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, “Magic Hands Dolores” is driven to extremes to survive. Now in hiding, Dolores recounts her grotesque tale of Eat or Be Eaten, her macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, gentrification, cannibalism and survival of the fittest.