Down Cemetery Road
Season 1 Premiere:
Oct 29, 2025
Metascore
Generally Favorable
71
User score
Generally Favorable
6.4
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Metascore
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74% Positive
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Oct 29, 2025
100
Down Cemetery Road is great stuff. There is not a wasted moment, not a wasted word. Everything is there for a reason.
Oct 29, 2025
80
Between the fantastic and tightly written scripts to the tension-building and suspense, Down Cemetery Road is a series you won’t want to miss.
User score
Generally Favorable
57% Positive
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
32% Mixed
12 Ratings
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11% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Nov 2, 2025
6
This is ruined by the endless plot holes & secondary characters being such ****. I only finished the first season because I enjoy Thompson. Prolly won’t watch it if it gets renewed.
Dec 6, 2025
6
This show had so much potential. I love that it’s set in Oxford and the British English is so erudite and amusing, But the story is heavy-handed, the humor falls flat and none of the characters seem like they could actually be people in the real world.
Oct 29, 2025
80
While Ruth Wilson’s Sarah may be the way you’re drawn into this adventure, Emma Thompson’s delightfully acerbic Zoë Boehm is the reason to stay.
Oct 29, 2025
75
If there are more shows like this coming down the pike—thrillers with heavy doses of humor, generally fantastic casting (Wilson, it’s worth noting, gives a very good and tricky star performance here), a sizable budget, and some smart narrative decisions (more refreshingly abrupt, life-goes-on endings like this one, please)—viewers should consider themselves pretty lucky.
Oct 29, 2025
70
At eight episodes, “Down Cemetery Road” lacks the drum-tight concision that makes “Slow Horses” such an addictive watch. But the show shares enough positive qualities with its predecessor, from a mordant wit to some riveting action once things heat up, that “Slow Horses” fans will find plenty to tide them over between seasons.
Oct 29, 2025
60
A cat-and-mouse game that has a light touch and is tonally off in places — but Thompson and Wilson manage to steer this into compelling viewing territory.
Oct 29, 2025
45
Rote, mushy mess, whose story is bloated, conspiracy is deflating, and rah-rah feminism is corny—a trifecta that turns it into an exercise in excruciating unoriginality.
Nov 9, 2025
4
Even two of my favorite actresses couldn't make this worth my time. From the start, the whole thing felt manufactured: The premise; the on-the-nose dialogue; the obligatory witticisms .... It was like watching a building go up.
Dec 25, 2025
3
The first episode really drew me in and had elements of other British mysteries that I enjoy. From that point on, each episode seemed to dispatch with the characters I found most interesting. As a result, by the end I was bored, found the storyline completely implausible, and just wanted it to be over.
Oct 31, 2025
3
Ah look, I tried to like this. It started very promising. Good premise. Good start. I really l wanted to like it, but I just hated the characters. They were very annoying. Trying to be funny, but not. Like the cool kids at school too caught up in, and swept away by, the idea of themselves to realise that every classic line (that only they are laughing at) is in fact landing like a turd on a pizza delivered too late and too cold by a sad clown with filthy fingernails, who has wet his own underpants and now wants to play with the kids to fill them with his sad loneliness and embarrassing jokes and smelly pants.
