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Dope Thief Premiere Recap: Let Me Tell You a Bedtime Story
Apple’s latest crime drama follows two down-on-their-luck criminals who hustled too close to the sun.
Ray is an incredibly empathetic human being on the run from his own spiritual sight, as demonstrated when he stakes out the country drug house and his focus shifts to Mina (Marin Ireland), one of the alleged cookers they’re about to rob: “I felt like I knew exactly who she was, ’cause I could feel the cage she’d put herself in.” With her voice knocked out of commission, she furiously writes a series of curse-ridden demands — an iron will unencumbered by the weakened state of the body that houses it — chief among them, “KEEP MY COVER.” Had my eye on her as a venerable screen presence since I saw her in the indie-horror joint The Dark and the Wicked. • I couldn’t help but think of Gene Hackman’s passing when watching this first episode — not only one of the great American screen actors but a frequent fixture of the type of ’70s crime flicks for which Dope Thief, The Penguin, and other shows like it are the modern comp.
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