Like another ITV series with Red in the title, The Red King is a mixed bag – an interesting mystery stretched thin over too many instalments.Unlike the Richard Armitage/Jing Lusi thriller Red Eye, however, this one dials back the histrionics... well, by just a bit. And it swaps international intrigue for creepy folk-horror elements, a la The Wicker Man.
It mainly revolves around policewoman Grace Narayan (Anjili Mohindra, The Sara Jane Adventures, Bodyguard, Get Millie Black), who is posted to the remote Welsh island of St Jory as a punishment for standing by her professional principles and informing on two colleagues who beat up a sexual predator.
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