Down Cemetery Road is a mystery about government bad behavior. It’s an innocent bystander plotline with some pretty farfetched story points. Perhaps that’s why I enjoyed it so much and found myself smiling so often.

In Down Cemetery Road, a fantastic Ruth Wilson stars as Sarah. Sarah restores art. One evening as she and her husband are hosting a dinner party, a house down the street explodes. Two adults are killed, and a young girl named Dinah (Ivy Quoi) is carried off to the hospital.

Dinah gets erased from the media coverage of the explosion, and when Sarah tries to deliver a card from a neighbor’s children to her, she is stonewalled by the hospital.

Sarah didn’t think the explosion was an accident and she became obsessed with finding Dinah. She went to extreme lengths to find this missing child she didn’t even know.

Sarah took her suspicions to the police and to a private investigator named Joe (Adam Godley). Joe and his wife Zoë (Emma Thompson) owned a run-down detective agency that was collecting more dust than invoices.

Joe had a brilliant record collection. I loved his music! Joe uncovered some information about secret military experiments with chemical weapons that set a murderous plan in motion that targeted Joe, Zoë, Sarah, and little Dinah.

From there the story took off at hyperspeed as government actors, hired assassins, and the unlikely team of Sarah and Zoë led us on a wild chase. The women solved all the mysteries and ended up the heroes in the story. It’s only right.

Hamza (Adeel Akhtar) was a bumbling, inept intelligence agent under orders from C. (Darren Boyd), a suit in an office who wanted to keep his hands clean of the scandal. Hamza was supposed to fix the problem, but always made it worse. The newly installed Minister of Defense Talia Ross (Lydia Leonard) had taken office with a promise of transparency. She didn’t know about the chemical weapons tests until it was too late.

Then there were the characters with guns running about. These fellows either wanted to kill little Dinah and everyone around or or save little Dinah and everyone around her, depending on which side they were on. A couple of those characters were Amos (Fehinti Balogun) and Downey (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett).

Every series needs an IT geek, and in this series it was Wayne (Joshua James). Nurse Steph (Ella Bruccoleri) was a glorified Nanny. Captain Donny (Gary Lewis) gave boat tours to view Puffins.

There were stolen cars, stolen boats, stolen buses, trains, and bicycles in the chase. There were fires and leaping off cliffs and crawling through tunnels. In short, Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson starred in an action series and they were good at it.

Natalie Bailey directed 2 of the 8 episodes of this Apple TV+ series. I rate it highly, but if suspension of disbelief is hard for you it may not be your cup of tea. Every episode is streaming now. Have you seen it? What did you think of it?