Patricia Arquette is not the only reason to watch “High Desert,” a new comic thriller on Apple TV+, but she’s the best reason, and all the reason you need.
Arquette plays Peggy Newman, whom we meet li.
Bernadette Peters and Patricia Arquette make sense as mother and daughter the moment you think of their voices. Both sometimes access a posh, low, slightly unnatural register for emphasis, and both speak with a pleasing but idiosyncratic cadence, clipping some syllables and drawing others out. One is brunette and the other blond, but they re both vivacious, clever, tricky to place in time and more than a little bit weird.