Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson are headed Down Cemetery Road in the new trailer for the upcoming Apple TV+ series. The show’s premise hails from the same creative mind behind Apple‘s hit spy thriller Slow Horses, which just premiered its fifth season on the streamer. Down Cemetery Road will premiere on October 29. In the trailer, Thompson is private investigator Zoë Boehm, and Wilson is Sarah Tucker, a woman who darkens Boehm’s doorstep. Zoë immediately suspects that Sarah’s come because she thinks her husband’s having an affair… but it looks like her deduction skills are a little rusty.

Instead, Sarah has a real conundrum of a mystery: a mysterious explosion that killed two people in a sleepy suburban street. Furthermore, in the aftermath of the blast, a young girl disappeared. Who’s really alive, and who’s really dead, are two of the mysteries the duo will have to solve, even as their investigation leads them into the halls of power. However, it’s not all doom and gloom; the trailer sets an irreverent tone, as Thompson’s PI is a far cry from the average hard-boiled gumshoe of detective fiction. The series also stars Adeel Akhtar, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Tom Goodman-Hill, Darren Boyd, Tom Riley, Adam Godley, Sinead Matthews, Ken Nwosu, Fehinti Balogun, and Aiysha Hart.

What Will Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson Star in Next?

After appearing in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy earlier this year, Thompson can be seen in the icy thriller Dead of Winter, which sees her pitted against two mysterious strangers in a life-or-death struggle at a frozen lake. Next up, she’s set to star with Hugh Jackman in Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie, a surreal mystery in which a flock of sheep attempt to solve their shepherd’s murder. Last year, Wilson starred as journalist Emily Maitlis in A Very Royal Scandal, a miniseries about Prince Andrew‘s ties to sex trafficking. Next, she’s set to star in the horror film Family, with Ben Chaplin; the 1980s-set AIDS drama The Book of Ruth, with Matt Bomer; and the romantic thriller Andorra, with Bobby Cannavale and Elizabeth Debicki.

Down Cemetery Road shares creative DNA with Slow Horses. It is an adaptation of a 2003 novel of the same name, the first of four books starring Zoë Boehm, by Mick Herron, who also wrote the Slow Horses novels. Morwenna Banks, who wrote and executive produced Down Cemetery Road, has also written for Slow Horses‘ Apple TV+ adaptation.

Down Cemetery Road will premiere on AppleTV+ on October 29.

via Collider