DOWN CEMETERY ROAD, Apple TV+ series based on a Mick Herron novel

Emma Thompson stars in Down Cemetery Road, an 8-Part Mystery Thriller, that debuts tomorrow night on AppleTV+. 

This 8-episode thriller starts Wednesday, October 29 with two episodes, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through December 10. 

Down Cemetery Road is adapted from by Mick Herron's novel of the same name. Herron is the CWA Diamond Dagger Award winner whose Slough House novels were adapted into the award winning Slow Horses series. 

The storyline of Down Cemetery Road follows Thompson as a  private investigator pulled out of near-retirement when a teenage girl vanishes from a quiet Oxford suburb. What begins as a domestic disappearance rapidly changes into a conspiracy rooted in the university’s inner sanctums — power, secrecy, old money, and the brutal machinery that protects them. Thompson is joined by Ruth Wilson, who plays a morally ambiguous academic with ties to the missing student. 

Can't wait! More to come after I've seen the first two episodes. Let me know what you think, too!

 

Bad Monkey: Apple TV+ series

Bad Monkey is now on AppleTV. I've seen the first two episodes, and I thought they were great -- intense, quirky, funny--just like Carl Hiassen's mystery on which the series is based. Apple’s comedy Bad Monkey stars and is executive produced byVince Vaughn with executive producer Bill Lawrence. It's a 10-episode series with the first two episodes available now. New episodes will drop every Wednesday through October 9.

Bad Monkey is the story of Andrew Yancy (Vaughn), who has been bounced from the Miami Police Department and is now a health inspector in the Florida Keys. But after stumbling upon a case that begins with a human arm fished up by tourists, he realizes that if he can prove murder, he’ll be back in. He just needs to get past a trove of Floridian oddballs and one bad monkey. And, it goes from there. The humor isn't for everyone, but I'm a huge fan of Carl Hiassen, so it is for me. 

Let me know what you think.