This year, USA will air the final season of “Mr. Robot,” the show that launched creator Sam Esmail and that seemed, for a moment, to foretell a very different future for a network that …
” is a charmer: It keeps those aspects of “Mr. Robot” that were most audience-friendly, and jettisons the rest — further proof, after last year’s Amazon series “Homecoming,” that Esmail is a talent capable of evolution and of growth.On “Briarpatch,” Dawson’s Allegra, a high-level Senate staffer, returns to her hometown of San Bonifacio, Texas, known as “Saint Disgrace” among locals.
Ferguson’s character shares an intriguing chemistry with Allegra, fueled both by their mutual history and their present situation: He’s at the center of a conspiracy that her boss, a less-than-upright U.S. Senator, has asked her to involve herself in while she’s back home.
The human factor Dawson provides helps keep “Briarpatch” from being a pure style exercise, as has been “Mr. Robot” in moments. Dawson is hardly warm in the role — she’s interacting, generally, with either people she suspects of wrongdoing or people from whom she requests information — but she is refreshing and real, creating a character with contours that bring Allegra off the page.
That ends up making “Briarpatch” a show worth looking forward to avidly, one that has the potential to, once again, establish USA as a place for serious fare. USA’s plan is to treat “Briarpatch” as an anthology, and to create subsequent seasons focusing on new characters within its creative world. Based on their success with Allegra, it’s easy to imagine that’s doable; for now, though, the time we have with this well-wrought, sharply observant but fallible sleuth is reward enough., Jay R.
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