Scorchin' Summer Streamin' 26 - Down Cemetery Road - Season One

Down Cemetery Road is a British show so many people talked about last last year on Apple TV, which I have now managed to smash out in Fiji.

Based on the 2003 novel by Mick Herron, adapted by Morwenna Banks. The series launched on the fruity streamer (killing it with award noms this season) last October.

Last month, the second season was announced. Season one however is starts off as a woman hires an investigator after an explosion occurs and a girl goes missing on the same night in a quiet suburban neighbourhood.

The series comes from the team behind the Emmy-winning series Slow Horses comes a brand new mystery to solve. 

Down Cemetery Road, starring and executive produced by Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe & Emmy Award-winner Emma Thompson, & also starring Golden Globe and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson.

Following the house explosion in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, neighbour Sarah Tucker (Wilson) becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Thompson). Zoë and Sarah suddenly find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.

Alongside the terrific Wilson & Thompson, BAFTA Award winner Adeel Akhtar, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Emmy Award nominee Tom Goodman-Hill, BAFTA Award winner Darren Boyd, Tom Riley, SAG Award nominee Adam Godley, Sinead Matthews, Ken Nwosu, Fehinti Balogun & Aiysha Hart.

The show is a serious hit from Apple. Much like Slow Horses, there is comedy, crime and drama! I loved all eight episodes. The comedic shift around episodes two and three, were mentioned to me. However I enjoyed the team of Thompson and Wilson, slaying in this government crime/conspiracy.

If you are like me and behind maybe don't read on, as the below contains a summary of the finale, What Will Survive.

Sarah & Dinah leave the island using Amos's boat, Amos finds Downey's boat and leaves and Zoe travels back to harbour on the Scottish captain's boat. Zoe, Sarah and Dinah leave the village on a bus to avoid the police hunt for Zoe but realise that Hamza has hijacked the bus. 

He crashes it into a church and takes Zoe, Dinah and Sarah hostages while he calls C for instructions. C says backup is on the way and calls Amos to eliminate everyone in the church. Amos throws in a grenade which destroys a lot of the church but Sarah and Dinah escape leaving Zoe and Amos to fight until Amos is killed. 

Hamza confronts Sarah and fires her shotgun which explodes in his hand leaving Zoe, Sarah and Dinah to leave Scotland on a sleeper train. 

On the train Wayne is told to publish on social media and the defence secretary is grilled on a TV interview about the testing on soldiers. Dinah is reunited with her cousins and C resigns and moves into the private sector.

I strongly recommend you getting into this series. Particularly if you are fan of Slow Horses. Apple TV had a seriously good year in 2025. The Studio, Pluribus, Severance & Platonic's second seasons, with Shrinking, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and Hijack all launching in Q1, 2026, Apple TV is killing it right now!