LOS ANGELES — What happens when you combine Dexter and Sweeney Todd? You get Dolores Roach.

“The Horror of Dolores Roach,” now streaming on Prime Video, is based on the Spotify podcast series of the same name. It is the story of Dolores Roach’s survival, who is faced with post-incarceration life, loneliness, betrayal, love and cannibalism. After being sent to prison for 16 years, Dolores — played by Justina Machado — returns to a Washington Heights that has been gentrified.

In order to make a living, she decides to become a masseuse in the basement of an empanada shop, but soon things take a dark turn when “Magic Hands” Dolores becomes threatened.

Machado told Spectrum News that playing Dolores was exciting, liberating, fun and something she had not been able to play before.

“It is a part that usually don’t go to women no matter what race, color, ethnicity, nationality they are. A part like this, I feel so lucky to have it, but I also feel like it was meant to be,” she said.

“The Horror of Dolores Roach” also stars Alejandro Hernandez, Kita Updike and K. Todd Freeman.

Cyndi Lauper also guest stars in the series. For Machado, working with Lauper was a dream come true.

“My 12-year-old self was jumping up and down,” she said.

Cyndi Lauper as Ruthie. (Photo courtesy of Prime Video)

For the record, Machado says her relationship with empanadas has not changed since making the show.

“I’ll still eat empanadas,” she said.

Above all, Machado says she wants people to know that “The Horror of Dolores Roach” is a great show.

“This is a really fun show. It is unexpected. It is different, out-there show,” she said.

All episodes of “The Horror of Dolores Roach” are now available on Prime Video.

Click the arrow above to watch the full interview (before the SAG-AFTRA strike was announced) with Machado.