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)

Upcoming · BBC Scotland

6 eps

S01

DramaMysteryThriller

ON AIR: JUL 27Season 1

What to Expect

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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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Why this pick

The Loyalty Game turns intimate suspicion into a tightening spiral of surveillance, proof, and mounting consequences, like The Ridge’s grief-fueled web of lies. Marriage warmth curdles into paranoia as characters circle each other with rehearsed calm, and the pacing keeps ratcheting up without needing big set pieces.

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