On paper, Down Cemetery Road (Apple TV+, from today) should be irresistible. Adapted from a novel by Slow Horses author Mick Herron, it unites Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson as sleuthing strangers required to join forces when a bloody conspiracy wreaks havoc in modern Oxford. But it never quite comes together. Worse yet, it wastes Thompson by having her play a hugely dislikable eccentric detective with the trying-too-hard name of Zoë Boehm.
Boehm does not play well with others.
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