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Warning! Spoilers about The Rig season 1.The events of Amazon Prime Video's The Rig led to the death of some characters, all connected to what the oil company Pictor is doing in the North Sea. A sci-fi thriller, The Rig steadily builds the tension throughout The Rig season 1 episodes, 1 to 6, culminating in a season finale where all the parties at fault risked exacerbating the consequences of treating the Ancestor as a threat. Finally, however, some of the rig's crew paid a hefty price resulting in their deaths, becoming collateral damage to some characters' work to comply with the Ancestor's requests or Pictor's research representative's vicious plan, which led to two deaths among the crew.

Distinguishing itself from many other sci-fi TV shows where an unknown evil threatens an isolated group of people, The Rig season 1 weaved themes like climate change into the story. The Ancestor soon turned into a force...

Amazon’s Prime Video has announced a January 6th premiere date for the supernatural thriller series The Rig, and along with that announcement comes the release of a trailer for the show! You can check it out in the embed above. John Strickland and Alex Holmes directed the six-part show from scripts by Meg Salter, Matthew Jacobs Morgan, and series creator David Macpherson.

The Rig is set on the Kishorn Bravo oil rig, stationed off the Scottish coast in the dangerous waters of the North Sea. When the crew is due to return to the mainland, a mysterious and all-enveloping fog rolls through. The rig is hit by massive tremors, and they find themselves cut off from all communication with the shore and the outside world. As the crew endeavor to discover what’s driving this unknown force, a major accident forces them to ask questions about who they can really trust.

Marilyn Edmond’s film is a well-meaning but unconvincing dramatisation of the problems of loneliness and suicide among men under 45 in the UK

In a tiny, relentlessly picturesque coastal Scottish town, shy young Brian (Kevin Guthrie) is a good-looking chap with a steady job in an ironmongers. He’s got a reasonably affectionate family living nearby and seems to have a few friends – or at least one, in the shape of co-worker Gavin (Cameron Fulton), a queeny quipper who is possibly the only gay person in the village.

However, Brian is desperately lonely, tortured by suicidal thoughts and unable to share his troubles with anyone around him. One night, just as he is on the verge of jumping off a cliff on to the rocks below, a kindly stranger, Jeff (Stephen McCole), pulls him away from the edge, literally and metaphorically. Then he persuades Brian to open up a little,...