Apple TV is taking another trip Down Cemetery Road. The mystery thriller series, which wrapped up its first season earlier this week, will return for a sophomore season on the streamer. Based on a novel by Slow Horses author Mick Herron, the series stars Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson as a pair of sleuths on the trail of a disappeared girl.
The new season will be based on the second Herron novel starring private detective Zoë Boehm, The Last Voice You Hear. In it, Boehm (Thompson) is called in to investigate the death of a woman who was hit by a train; she soon finds that it was no accident. She and Sarah Trafford (Wilson) get drawn into the perilous world of black market antiquities…and end up in the crosshairs of a serial killer. Says Thompson, who executive produced the series in addition to starring in it, “I’m so thrilled that Down Cemetery Road has been enjoyed enough to warrant a second season. The thought of working with the team again, with wonderful Morwenna Banks in the writer’s seat and the indomitable Ruth Wilson who is the best and most brilliant co-star any aging Dame could desire, is frankly far more than I feel I deserve. Zoë Boehm is a punkishly delicious avatar and I can’t wait to pull on her knock-off Doc Martens again.”
What Happened in Season 1 of ‘Down Cemetery Road’?
Season 1 kicks off with a bang, as a mysterious explosion rips through a sleepy Oxford neighborhood. In the wake of the explosion, which killed one local resident, a young girl disappears…but the only person who seems to care is Sarah Trafford (Wilson), who didn’t even know her. She’s disturbed enough by the disappearance and the seeming cover-up surrounding it that she enlists the services of married private detectives Zoë Boehm and Joe Silverman (Adam Godley). When Joe turns up dead, allegedly by suicide, both women find themselves in a fight for survival as they’re trailed by remorseless killers. The conspiracy goes to the highest ranks of the British government, which is trying to keep a long-buried secret…
Down Cemetery Road currently holds a 79% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In her review, Collider‘s Tania Hussain praised the series and its cast, calling Thompson “funny in the driest possible way and amazing to watch” and Wilson “one of those actors who can turn a breakdown into a masterclass in restraint.”
Down Cemetery Road will return for a second season on Apple TV.
via Collider