The Rig

Name: The Rig
Genre: Drama, Suspense
Released: January 6, 2023
Rating: 68

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Prime Video | Release Date: January 6, 2023

Summary: Magnus MacMillan (Iain Glen) and his crew on an oil rig off the coast of Scotland are ready to return home when they suddenly find themselves enveloped by fog and find communication to the outside world cut off in this thriller created by David Macpherson.

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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The Telegraph Benji Wilson

Jan 6, 2023

Season 1 Review: Questions such as, "Isn’t this a bit silly?" and, "What was writer David Macpherson on when he picked up his pen?" do linger in the wings, but the direction is terrific, the editing superb and the performances top notch. Read full review

Shane Ryan

Jan 9, 2023

Season 1 Review: This is middling in the grand scheme, but if you enjoy this particular genre (iso-horror?) there are plenty of worse ways to spend your time. The casting is excellent (superficially, the plethora of Scottish accents alone are worth the price of admission for me), John Strickland (Line of Duty, Big Love) does exactly what he needs to do as director, and there’s real suspense and real agony within the narrative. Read full review

Joel Keller

Jan 6, 2023

Season 1 Review: While there isn’t a ton of character development as The Rig starts, the acting is excellent, and it makes the tension that’s building on the Kinloch Bravo feel palpable. Read full review

i Rachael Sigee

Jan 6, 2023

Season 1 Review: If it had been squashed into 90 minutes, The Rig might work. But spread over nearly six hours, it feels slack and at times, a bit naff. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Barbara Ellen

Sep 10, 2024

Season 1 Review: There are times when The Rig plays as a seabound Alien. Other times, the eco/oil theme, while worthy (see also State of Happiness and the latest series of Borgen), skews the script, with clunky asides about sustainable fishing, the Earth’s crust and an extinction event (“The great dying”). Read full review

The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Jan 6, 2023

Season 1 Review: It’s a modern take on an old narrative form, and if there’s nothing as earthshaking dramatically speaking as whatever the Big Bad is managing as it comes for our crew, the need to know what’s what – including Glen’s Secret Sorrow and the role Mark Addy, who has yet to turn up unless I’ve failed to spot him under all the safety gear, is going to play – and the faith that it won’t all descend into a Lost-style debacle will keep you going until the end. Read full review

The Telegraph Benji Wilson

Jan 2, 2025

Season 2 Review: This is peak post-peak TV, which means it’s ambitious, overwrought and yet somehow full of great actors. It then takes those great actors (almost all of whom seem to have been seconded from Game of Thrones – Iain Glen, Mark Addy, Owen Teale…) and has them spout total cod-scientific gobbledygook. Read full review

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Jan 15, 2023

Great, loved every moment of it, lots of suspense and nuanced characters, great acting all round, would have like to see the rest of the background characters do something other than stay inside the whole time, and a few dumb moments where they left the "bad" guy in the control room byGreat, loved every moment of it, lots of suspense and nuanced characters, great acting all round, would have like to see the rest of the background characters do something other than stay inside the whole time, and a few dumb moments where they left the "bad" guy in the control room by himself, but overall great and highly recommend if you like a good mystery with no correct outcome that leaves things ambiguous, hopefully gets a season 2… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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  Air Date: January 2, 2025
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  Air Date: January 6, 2023