Patricia Arquette captivates in comedy-drama TV series 'High Desert'
Bernadette Peters and Patricia Arquette make sense as mother and daughter the moment you think of their voices. Both sometimes access a posh, low, slightly unnatural register for emphasis, and both speak with a pleasing but idiosyncratic cadence, clipping some syllables and drawing others out. One is brunette and the other blond, but they're both vivacious, clever, tricky to place in time and more than a little bit weird.