What happens when the inhabitants of a remote Scottish oil rig are suddenly cut off from outside world? The Rig, Amazon’s big-budget, high-intensity new series is about to reveal all – in the most spine-chillingly eerie way possible. Terse relationships are revealed as the Kinloch Bravo crew, including conflicted communications officer Fulmer (Line Of Duty’s Martin Compston), crew leader Magnus (Game Of Thrones’ Iain Glen), and Rose, a steely oil company representative played by Schitt’s Creek’s Emily Hampshire, prepare to travel home. But then an unexplainable fog descends and a hauntingly sinister sense of chaos starts to take hold.
“Initially, you’ll think you’re settling into a Vigil-esque drama exploring the complex dynamics that develop in the rig’s claustrophobia,” says Stylist’s editorial assistant Holly Bullock. “But an hour later, you realise you’re in for something infinitely more shocking as the first episode reaches its foreboding climax. Spotlighting an often-untold side of Scottish industry – it’s Amazon’s first original series filmed exclusively in Scotland – The Rig has genuinely hair-raising moments aplenty (including a particularly odious twist for Fulmer), fascinating character dynamics that leap from jovial to hostile with unsettling ease and, ultimately, a climate crisis-focused message that feels neither preachy nor farfetched. Prepare to binge all six episodes hand over mouth in one breathless evening.” Watch on Amazon Prime Video now