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J.J. Abrams’ 1970s-Set ‘Duster’ Is a Gas Until It Hits the Skids: TV Review

HBO Max's 1970s set 'Duster' follows a tenacious FBI agent and a getaway diver determined to take down the Al Capone of the Southwest.

“Duster” is the first show to debut out of Abrams’ massive nine-figure Warner Bros. deal, and is distinctly different from his other Bad Robot-produced genre series, such as “Alias,” “Lost” and “Westworld.” Here, what begins as a thrilling journey of an FBI agent determined to make a name for herself becomes an uneven adventure that can’t quite stay the course. He’s been content to zoom through life, doing runs and drops for Saxton in his gorgeous cherry-red muscle car, bedding different women and spending time with his friend Izzy (Camille Guaty) and her precocious young daughter, Luna (Adriana Aluna Martinez). Notoriously erratic millionaire Howard Hughes (Tom Nelis), a blade-wielding assassin and Elvis Presley’s blue suede shoes are pulled into the ever-expanding web of the series, which becomes a chaotic and confusing scheme instead of the intriguing mystery it set out to be.

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