Emma Thompson's 'Down Cemetery Road' Is Riveting, Dark, and Wildly Entertaining

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I didn’t pay much attention to the promotion for Apple TV’s latest, Down Cemetery Road , because it already had the only three ingredients it needed to sell me: Emma Thompson, Ruth Wilson, and “from the author of Slow Horses .” What else could you possibly ask for?

The good news is, it delivers — at least in the first two episodes — on everything those ingredients promise. Down Cemetery Road kicks off with a literal bang. While Sarah Tucker (Ruth Wilson) and her husband Mark (Tom Riley) are hosting a dinner party, a gas explosion destroys a neighboring house. The mother inside is killed, but her young daughter, Dinah, miraculously survives and is taken away in an ambula

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