How many episodes are in The Ridge?

The Ridge has 6 episodes in this listed season.

When does The Ridge premiere?

The Ridge premieres on 2026-07-27.

Is The Ridge a new series?

The Ridge is a new series (Season 1).

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The Ridge(2025)

Archived · BBC Scotland

6 eps

S01

DramaMysteryThriller

ON AIR: JUL 27Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

The Ridge is a slow-burn mystery that trades in social concealment rather than action. Mia arrives in New Zealand already in crisis, and her sister's death doesn't offer refuge so much as pull her deeper into trouble. The small town she lands in has the particular quality of a place where everyone's version of events has been agreed upon long before she got there, and the series lets that quiet wrongness accumulate across episodes rather than punctuate it with confrontation.

Grief and suspicion bleed into each other here in a way that keeps the psychological ground unstable. Mia is an outsider who doesn't yet know the right questions to ask, and the people around her are careful without being obviously hostile, which makes the dread harder to locate and harder to shake. The emotional register shifts gradually from personal loss into something closer to paranoia, and the series holds that uncomfortable in-between state for a long time.

Best for

quiet dread mystery, grief-to-paranoia and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Mystery

Commitment

Season 1 · 6 episodes

Where

BBC Scotland

Official Premise

Mia, a Scottish doctor, in trouble at home, arrives in New Zealand to take refuge with her sister only to find her sister has died. Shock turns to mounting horror as she's drawn into a small town's web of lies and secrets.

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Strongest Match

The Price of Confession keeps the dread slow and personal, with a woman’s credibility under pressure in a courtroom-adjacent mystery. Like The Ridge, it leans on quiet revelations and withheld details, where every conversation feels loaded, and the tension comes from what people refuse to say.

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Why this pick

Little Disasters turns grief-adjacent suspicion into an intimate domestic pressure cooker, centered on a child-harm accusation that fractures trust. Like The Ridge, it builds unease through close-up scenes and strained relationships, but it stays colder and more personal, with family life doing the tightening instead of a small-town web.

The Dark

ITVX • Jul 12, 2026

CrimeThriller

When the body of a young man is found eerily staged in the idyllic Scottish wilderness, detective Monica Kennedy fears this is just the beginning of a terrifying campaign that will strike the heart of a rural community.As paranoia rises, suspicions and secrets are forced into the light, and the locals start to realise that there is a serial killer hidden amongst them. With her experience of dealing with the darkest of humanity Monica Kennedy quickly becomes entangled in a heightened game of cat and mouse with a cunning killer. Only she can stop this monster before he claims any more victims.But when her own history creeps up on her, she begins to lose trust in her own judgement. Will it be her own actions that are the biggest risk to herself and her family?

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Why this pick

The Dark delivers the same rural Scottish claustrophobia, starting with a staged body and tightening paranoia across a close-knit community. Like The Ridge, it uses slow-burn suspicion and community secrets to keep you uneasy, but it moves faster into a serial-killer hunt with more overt danger and investigation momentum.

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