Down Cemetery Road

Sometimes a show is simply a show-and that's enough. I'm drawn to the people, the quirks, the small absurdities. The story carries a kind of endearing clumsiness that feels intentional. It reminds me of Slow Horses, which isn't surprising given the producers' shared creative DNA.

Yes, much of what happens is unlikely to occur in anyone's real life-but then, what show truly mirrors life? The score is curious: discordant and unique, yet oddly comforting in its quieter moments.

The central cast does the heavy lifting here. At first, the lead's abrasiveness grated on me, but before long, you start to glimpse the world through her fractured but fascinating lens. The show is layered in ways that may not be immediately obvious. Reading through other reviews, I suspect many viewers missed that depth because they bowed out too early.

We're only on episode three, and I find it hard to understand how anyone could deliver such sweeping, entrenched judgments so soon. Still, when someone hates something, they tend to hate it loudly. For my part, I'm enjoying it-and I'd encourage anyone with a little time to spare to give it a chance. I just felt the need to speak up in its defense.

That said, it's not a series I can binge or rewatch endlessly the way I can with Slow Horses. That probably says more about where I am personally-navigating the aftermath of an unhappy marriage and a recent divorce-than about the show's quality itself.

With Slow Horses on hiatus after its season finale, I've got several months to wait for the next chapter. In the meantime, Down Cemetery Road makes for a thoughtful, offbeat stand-in. In my humble opinion, it's worth the time.

Enjoy-and best wishes.

Only two episodes had come out and people were ripping the series apart! I agree with the reviewer who said how nice it is to see Ruth Wilson again. She is a gem. I have loved her in everything I have seen her in. And Emma can do no wrong. I will agree that the first episode was confusing and at times, implausible. The second episode was much better and I watch each episode the evening it's released. We are now at Episode 6 and I love the series. I don't love the one episode a week thing. I just want to binge it!

I'm an enormous fan of Slow Horses and you can't compare the two shows whatsoever. They are incredibly different and honestly, Slow Horses is a masterpiece. This series has some jumping around plot-wise, but it still works great in its own right.

It actually took me five episodes of the first season of Slow Horses to really get into it and I don't give shows that long usually but I'm thrilled that I did because like I said, masterpiece. Anyway, give this a shot for sure! People shouldn't be allowed to write crappy reviews after only watching one episode!

I'm not sure what some people have watched, but there is truly some rubbish out there on tv at the moment, but this is not that. It has a decent story, intrigue, excellent cast and is well written. I was able to suspend my disbelief, was caught up in what is going to happen next. Here's hoping the following episodes are even better,

Definitely watchable but it was like there were two sets of actors given different instructions as to the intended tone of the storytelling. Getting the mix of comedy and drama right isn't easy and the creators of this show have not demonstrated the necessary skills in the first episode. The mismatch took from the tension.

The necessary comparison with Slow Horses shows where the genius of that show lies - the humour is to the fore but underpinnned by solid drama. Here the drama is to the fore and undermined by the comedic elements. Good but could have been better.

As a few others are pointing out here, there's a new wave of crime shows that try to mix drama and comedy, quirky and comedic characters with more "real" characters. Sometimes it works, like in the first seasons of Slow Horses, or in Department Q, and sometimes it doesn't, like in this case. Ruth Wilson is in full drama mode, she frets, and frowns and overacts in every scene, while Emma Thompson just... chills... and seems to desperately try to do what Gary Oldman does in SH but with a very different outcome. The result is that the two of them don't seem to belong to same story and the show feels very uneven and, ultimately, watching this show feels like eating steak and dessert at the same time. Not terrible, just weird.