SummaryAn uneasy alliance is formed after a situation in the Ramapo Mountain area brings together sheriff Harold Jensen (Martin Henderson) and Phillip Kopus (Jason Momoa), an ex-con and a member of the Lenape Tribe.
SummaryAn uneasy alliance is formed after a situation in the Ramapo Mountain area brings together sheriff Harold Jensen (Martin Henderson) and Phillip Kopus (Jason Momoa), an ex-con and a member of the Lenape Tribe.
While The Red Road is not quite in the same league as "True Detective" or "Broadchurch," it is better than most, and it succeeds at drawing dramatic tension not from lots of plot-twist fireworks, but from the long-simmering resentments, private shames and historical injustices embedded in a community few viewers are familiar with.
A six-part saga awash in fashionable gloom, set in the mountains of New Jersey, and much of the time a compelling one in its picture of the tensions between the Van Der Veens, members of an Indian tribe, and the blue-collar Jensens, headed by Harold (Martin Henderson), a police officer.
The Red Road may not be SundanceTV's strongest drama, but it has a hypnotic power, a strange rhythm of dread that makes it far more interesting than most network dramas.
It’s exciting to watch Momoa and Henderson give riveting performances, so it’s not like there’s nothing to recommend here. It’s just that in watching them do it, you wish the story was giving them more fodder and not bogging itself down in side arcs.