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Down Cemetery Road - Season 1 (2025)

3,28 16 votes

Show title: Down Cemetery Road

IMDb score: 7,0 (13.809)

Episodes: 8

Playing time: 6 hour and 46 minutes

Developed by: Emma Thompson, Hakan Kousetta, Jamie Laurenson, Mick Herron, Morwenna Banks and Tom Nash

Stars: Emma Thompson, Ruth Wilson and Adeel Akhtar

Origin: United States

Releasedate: Wednesday 29 October 2025

First aired on: Apple TV+ (Verenigde Staten)

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Down Cemetery Road plot

In a quiet suburb of Oxford, a house explodes, and shortly afterward, a girl disappears. Neighbor Sarah Tucker becomes obsessed with finding the girl and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm. The pair suddenly find themselves embroiled in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long presumed dead are still among the living, while the living are rapidly joining the dead.

Episodes Season 1 (2025)

  1. 1. Almost True

    29 October 2025 (51 minutes)

  2. 2. A Kind of Grief

    29 October 2025 (53 minutes)

  3. 3. Filthy Work

    5 November 2025 (54 minutes)

  4. 4. My Friends Don't Like Me

    12 November 2025 (48 minutes)

  5. 5. Slow Dying

    19 November 2025 (51 minutes)

  6. 6. Neglected Waters

    26 November 2025 (50 minutes)

  7. 7. Lights Go Out

    3 December 2025 (49 minutes)

  8. 8. What Will Survive

    10 December 2025 (50 minutes)

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avatar van lang pee

lang pee

  • 3334 messages
  • 1442 votes

This is a truly terrible series; I honestly don't know how they get so many points on IMBD. I went to check it out again to see if it wasn't a comedy series, I found it so ridiculous.

All people who appear in the series on BBC First, and honestly, that was also the level.

And by the way, Thomson was not brilliant in this role, just as she was terrible in her previous film Dead of Winter.

Weak and really stupid series...unwatchable

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Mr_Marty

  • 125 messages
  • 109 votes

Slow Horses is based on detective novels by Mick Herron. The same team has now tackled a series of books Herron wrote before focusing on Slough House, about private investigator Zoë Boehm. Honestly, you can tell it's a precursor to Slow Horses in every way: all the ingredients are there, from the sarcastic humor, the less-than-stellar main characters, the cynical view of the British government, to the above-average interest in computer technology, but all a bit cruder, a bit less polished. The humor, in particular, is a bit more laugh-or-I'll-shoot, which I'm not a fan of. But thankfully, there are also plenty of biting one-liners. I was reminded a bit of Luther, but that's also because Ruth Wilson, who played a major role in that series, is also in this one. I think tonally, Down Cemetery Road falls somewhere between Slow Horses and Luther (which was almost Batman in the later seasons).

Good actors thrive in the UK, of course, and just like with Slow Horses, the team has once again secured an absolute star: Emma Thompson plays Zoë Boehm and she's absolutely raring to go. I also had the feeling the whole time I'd seen the actor who played Downey before, and that turns out to be true: it was in Femme. In that film, he played a drag queen out to take revenge on a gay man who turns out to be a closeted gay man himself; here, he's a sick war veteran. That's quite a feat.

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blurp194

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I really enjoyed this series.

Perhaps a bit of a shame that it becomes clear quite quickly what's going on; I would have preferred that to be covered up a bit longer. But the acting is also incredibly good, even by British series standards. Ruth Wilson, in particular, is the driving force behind this.

In my opinion, the whole thing comes across much more subtly than Slow Horses—as mentioned, from the same creators. That series features a lot of very clumsy dialogue (which I also find brilliant, by the way). Here, it's a bit friendlier, a bit slower, a bit more polite, almost. But thankfully, it's not a competition; I can enjoy both.

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