The life of Allegra, a young smart detective, who returns to her hometown in Texas, where she investigates on the murder of her sister that dies in a car accident, has been changed completely, as she finds out corruption in the town that threatens the life there.
Briarpatch has a wonderful cast and some inspired ideas; if it can slow down and figure out a more elegant way to deliver its fusion of icy cool and ramshackle quirk, St. Boniface will become a wry and appealing place for viewers to put down some roots.
If Briarpatch's mysteries are interesting, its characters magnetic, and its flashes of surrealism amusing, the show never quite rises to the level of emotional engagement. There's nobody to love or even like much in Briarpatch.
"Briarpatch" draws us in quickly, with swift, sure sketches of the town, the colorful types who populate it, and a general air that things just aren't right.
Greenwald clearly knows his detective fiction, both on the page and on the screen, and he effectively deploys the conventions of the genre while adding in just the right touch of surrealism.
