Bucket Nut

A heroine as unlovely as she is unlikely, Eva Wylie (''Bucket Nut'') is hulking, foul-mouthed, and short-tempered, but she hides a heart of gold beneath her steely emotional armor. With Bucket Nut — inaccurately billed as a mystery — Liza Cody (Backhand) launches a promising new series in which the lovably lowbrow Eva, a professional wrestler and unwitting hit woman, hunts down her estranged sister and becomes enamored of a WASPy female junkie. When it comes to hard luck and rampant misanthropy, Cody gives Harry Crews a run for his money. And that's a compliment. A-