Concrete Folk Variations, Chapter One: Death of a Sugar Daddy

Loretta Salt -- detective, lesbian and puppet -- stars in artist Susan Simpson's serial noir about the murder of a society grande dame on the down low. Simpson spent months shrinking L.A. to fit a stage the size of a windshield, and her creations are wondrous and whimsical rather than stiffly dioramic (her small palm trees whiz across the set with the ease of a tracking shot). "Death of a Sugar Daddy," the series' first installment at Silver Lake's Manual Archives, aims to hook audiences with its authenticity, suspense and, most of all, its leading lady: the brassy, taciturn Salt. "She's tough," says Simpson, "and people really fall for her."

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