Based on the 1992 novel by Iain Banks, Joseph McFadden stars as Prentice McHoan, a young Scotsman trying to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of his Uncle Rory, a travel writer who vanished without a trace seven years earlier. Rory is “away the crow road,” which in Scotland is a way of saying he’s dead.
The four-part BBC series begins with the McHoan grandmother blowing up in a crematorium at her own funeral (a bit of Scots humor), and continues as the members of his family begin to die quickly and in some very odd ways. It’s filled with flashbacks and even flashbacks within flashbacks. The Crow Road is a mystery, a ghost story, a family of writers filled with secrets they try to take to the grave, and many of them do.
Banks wrote that the novel was about “Death, Sex, Faith, Cars, Scotland and Drink,” and this BBC adaptation is faithful to his description, helped along by a cadre of famous British actors, including Bill Patterson, Peter Capaldi (In the Loop), and David Robb (Sirius Black in the Harry Potter films), among the cast.
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