Director: Börkur Sigþórsson, Samuel Donovan, Natalie Bailey
Cast: Emma Thompson, Ruth Wilson, Adeel Akhtar, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Tom Goodman-Hill
Down Cemetery Road is a 2025 British thriller series directed by Börkur Sigþórsson, Samuel Donovan, and Natalie Bailey, starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson in a gripping mystery about a woman who cannot let go of a missing child and the dark truths that begin to surface around her.
What is Down Cemetery Road about?
When a devastating explosion rocks her quiet street, Sarah Tucker finds herself unable to move on — fixated on the fate of a young girl from the neighborhood who has vanished without explanation. Drawn deeper into questions that local authorities seem unwilling to answer, she reaches out to Zoë Boehm, a sharp and unorthodox private investigator. Together the two women begin pulling at threads that lead somewhere far more dangerous than either anticipated: a carefully maintained conspiracy in which the boundaries between the dead and the living have been deliberately blurred. The deeper they look, the more fragile their own safety becomes, as powerful forces work to keep certain truths buried.
Cast & crew
Emma Thompson brings her formidable dramatic range to the role of Sarah Tucker, a performance grounded in quiet obsession and mounting dread. Ruth Wilson plays PI Zoë Boehm with the kind of cool intelligence that anchors the show's escalating tension. The supporting ensemble — Adeel Akhtar, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Tom Goodman-Hill, Darren Boyd, Tom Riley, and Adam Godley — fills the conspiracy's orbit with morally ambiguous figures whose loyalties shift as the story deepens.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, Down Cemetery Road arrives as exactly the kind of tightly plotted British thriller that has long resonated with Iranian audiences who grew up on translated detective fiction and appreciate procedural storytelling told through a distinctly human lens. The series pairs an A-list lead with a genre structure that rewards close watching, and its exploration of institutional deception and a lone woman's refusal to accept the official version of events carries a quiet universality. Available on K-Time in Persian DUB as well as Persian subtitles, making it fully accessible whether you prefer dubbed or subtitled viewing.
Where & how to watch
Down Cemetery Road is available now on K-Time. It streams in Persian DUB and with Persian subtitles on the web, your TV, and your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime.