This Mick Herron drama is no Slow Horses

Don’t let the placid Oxford suburb setting fool you. It might take place on quaint streets and down country lanes, but Down Cemetery Road , Apple TV ’s latest foray into the British thriller genre, is anything but “cosy crime”.

With a killer cast led by Ruth Wilson and Emma Thompson, the eight-part series’s rebellious streak is all the more understandable with knowledge of the source material. For this is Apple’s latest Mick Herron adaptation – writer of the novels upon which the streamer’s other critical darling, Slow Horses , are based.

From the opener, it’s hard to tell that Thompson is set to be the series lead as Zoë Boehm, the punkish private investigator who gives Herron’s book series its name. Instead, Wilson’s art conservationist Sarah Tucker sits front and centre. It’