Briarpatch Review: USA's Pulpy, Stylish Crime Drama Never Fully Commits

It's a winter miracle: the Nordstrom Winter Sale is still — yes, still! — on. If you need us, we'll be camped out at Nordstrom.com. 

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By Patrick Hipes

Briarpatch is a murder mystery by genre, but it won't play by the rules.

The best way to describe the new drama Briarpatch is that it's not quite enough, and never really what you want it to be. The 10-episode series, debuting Feb. 6 on USA, has the sturdy bones of a pulpy crime thriller but aspires to also be something more surreal, and the result is a murder mystery that, while projecting a definite sense of place, leaves its viewers wanting in one area or another.

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