‘Down Cemetery Road’ Review: Apple TV Adaptation Enjoyable but Uneven

Apple TV Is Streaming 2025's Best Mystery Show — So Why Aren't You Watching It?

With Slow Horses now in its fifth season and at the height of its popularity and critical acclaim, it seems only fitting that another Mick Herron novel would receive a series order. Down Cemetery Road is based on the first of Herron’s novels centered on character Zoë Boehm (although she doesn’t become as central a character until the later books), starring Emma Thompson as Boehm and Ruth Wilson as Sarah Tucker. The series premiered on Apple TV j…

‘Down Cemetery Road’ Review: Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson’s Apple Mystery Tells Two Discordant Stories

Based on "Slow Horses" author Mick Herron's first book, "Down Cemetery Road" follows an art conservationist (Wilson) who unravels a dangerous conspiracy while looking for a neighbor's missing child — with a little help from P.I. Zoë Boehm (Thompson).

‘Down Cemetery Road’ review: Apple TV adaptation enjoyable but uneven

“Down Cemetery Road,” now streaming on Apple TV, is yet another dark British crime series involving guns and government conspiracies and endangered small children, but it’s distinctive in two key ways. It’s based a Mick Herron novel that got its…

Down Cemetery Road Series-Premiere Recap: Blow-Up

Ruth Wilson stars as an art restorer who gets caught up in a conspiracy mainly because she’s bored in Apple TV’s latest Mick Herron-adapted thriller.

TV Review: Down Cemetery Road, Apple TV+

So can Mick Herron follow the success of the TV adaptation of Slow Horses with another hit for Apple TV+ based on his debut novel? Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson are the big names in this new darkly funny whodunnit conspiracy thriller, but there are also lots of familiar faces in it. Tags:  Emma