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The Rig( 2023)

TV-MADramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
67%
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Overview

When the crew of the Kinloch Bravo find themselves cut off from all communication with the Scottish mainland by a mysterious fog, they must fight to find a way home whilst managing environmental pressures, mounting paranoia and rising tensions. But as the threat facing them reveals itself to be something beyond their wildest imagination, the divided crew must form an alliance to ensure survival.

  1. David Macpherson

    Creator

Series Cast

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    Emily Hampshire

    Rose Mason

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    Iain Glen

    Magnus MacMillan

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    Martin Compston

    Fulmer Hamilton

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    Rochenda Sandall

    Cat Braithwaite

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    Owen Teale

    Lars Hutton

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    Molly Vevers

    Heather Shaw

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    Stuart McQuarrie

    Colin Murchison

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    Alice Krige

    Lennox

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    Abraham Popoola

    Easter Ayodeji

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    Nikhil Parmar

    Harish

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    Ross Anderson

    Cameron

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    Phil McKee

    Bremner

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    Johannes Roaldsen Fürst

    Askel

Current Season

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Season 2

2025 | 6 Episodes

On a new high-tech rig deep in the Arctic Circle, the surviving oil workers of the Kinloch Bravo accept a dangerous mission that sends them across the treacherous frozen sea – and towards secrets hidden deep below it.

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A review by MovieGuys

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Written by MovieGuys on Sun Jan 08 2023
The Rig takes a tough mans environment and turns it into a woke playground, with an sprinkling of drippy types that are instantly out of place and would fit better into a downtown Starbucks, than this unforgiving environment. To add to the sense of implausible asinine tedium, the story is bland, unoriginal and slow. Nothing new on offer here. Perhaps its time to turn off the nonsense and accept some things for what they are, rather than trying to astro turf the truth. Rigs are overwhelmingly a mans world, just as midwifery is dominated by women. That said, even if this had been play...

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Facts

Status

Returning Series

Status

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Type

Scripted

Original Language

English

Keywords

  • supernatural
  • survival
  • oil
  • oil rig 
  • cautionary
  • terror
  • earnest
  • straightforward