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Justina Machado is headlining Amazon’s pilot of The Horror of Dolores Roach based on the popular podcast.

Aaron Mark is scripting the adaptation of the series, based on a one-woman play. “Magic Hands” Dolores Roach (Machado) is released from prison after 16 years and returns to a severely gentrified Washington Heights with $200 and the clothes on her back. With her boyfriend missing, her family long gone and her apartment now occupied by strangers, Dolores finds respite in the dilapidated storefront Empanada Loca around the corner — the only remnant of her former life.

The series is described as “a grotesque Sweeney Todd-inspired tale of eat or be eaten — a macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism and survival of the fittest.” Roxann Dawson is directing and executive producing the pilot.