The 'Down Cemetery Road' Trailer Introduces an Explosive Conspiracy

Move over, Slough House, there’s a new Mick Herron-based drama in town. Apple TV+ has released the first trailer for its forthcoming series Down Cemetery Road, which, in many ways, feels like nothing so much as the female-led answer to the streamer’s hit spy series Slow Horses. Based on a different set of Herron novels, The Oxford Investigations Series, the eight-part drama features British acting royalty Emma Thompson (Matilda the Musical) as Zoë Boehm, a disaffected private eye with even fewer resources than the infamous misfits of MI-5.

The story follows art restorer Sarah Tucker (Ruth Wilson), who enlists Boehm’s help when a young girl disappears following an explosion in a neighborhood home. The investigation sees the duo immediately embroiled in a major conspiracy, which, if the trailer is anything to go by, may include a “massive government cover-up” and puts their lives in danger.

In an interview with TV Insider, Wilson cites Thompson’s presence as a primary reason she was interested in the show. “As soon as we got together, it was like, OK, this is where the show is. It’s this dynamic, these two women, they’re hilarious. She’s such a good energy on set. She’s so brilliant. She’s kind of playful and easy, and everything is just fun,” she said. “I’ve loved her work for so long, so managing to work alongside her and be with her and find some really quirky dynamic between the two characters was really fun. What we’d built [is] interesting because we’d built our own journeys prior to that. The two characters worked so well. I loved it.”