Leopard Skin is impossible to categorize. It’s odd and quirky. It has a crime and criminals, it has a whole cast of improbably strange characters, it has a series of humiliations of epic proportions, it has a love story. It has 8 half hour episodes – is it meant to be a comedy? Because it’s weirdly funny.

Leopard Skin takes place in a beautiful estate on a beach in Mexico. The series weaves back and forth through time and we revisit certain scenes more than once as we learn more of the story.

Three diamond thieves with guns show up at the door wanting a place to hide out. They are Fausto (Gentry White), Sierra (Nora Arnezeder), and Clover (Margot Bingham). They stole $12 million diamonds but are happy to be paid $100K for the work and are waiting to hand off the jewels for the cash. They were working for a man named LaSalle (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who did all his scenes in furry bedroom slippers.

The house belonged to a rich guy named Archi who was married at different times to Alba (Carla Gugino) and Batty (Gaite Jansen). When the thieves break in, Archi is dead and it’s just Alba and Batty in the house.

Batty is cleaning the floor because they let the maid Inocencia (Ana de la Reguera) go. Inocencia appears in the flashbacks and plays a key role in what happens in the present with the diamond thieves.

The night the thieves arrive, a dinner party was scheduled with guests Max (Philip Winchester) and Maru (Amelia Eve). Alba introduced Fausto as the butler and the thieves lurked around the edges of the dinner. Maru got really drunk and never went home.

Those are the characters in this tale that sounds like a typical mystery thriller with hostages but is not. The dialog was bizarre. The episodes had unusual names like “All Is Well in the Well of Loneliness.”

Many scenes between Batty and Alba were about dominance and submission until they fell in love and didn’t know what to do with each other next. Maru hated Max because he was an a*hole idiot and was almost happy to be a captive.

There were implications that dear old Archi had been murdered in the past. Certainly quite a few people got murdered in the present. There was a lot of nudity and a lot of leopard patterned underwear all wrapped up in an unusual story.

Leopard Skin was written and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. He and Carla Gugino have worked together several times in the past, including on Jett.

Peacock is streaming this now like it’s a new Peacock Original, but IMDb shows it as released in 2022. The series has a sort of crazy charm and the ending is oddly satisfying, but it’s not something everyone will enjoy. Maybe the trailer can help you decide if you want to watch it.