The Red King (2024)

A police sergeant posted away after informing on fellow officers, a small Welsh island and a missing boy: Toby Whithouse's six-part series knows exactly which classic it is answering, down to an innkeeper's daughter modeled on the one in The Wicker Man. The cold case keeps dragging the island's homegrown pagan sect, the True Way, and its masked traditions into the open. Anjli Mohindra makes a sharp, likable lead. The mix of crime procedural and folk horror is uneven, but as a witty modern homage to the Summerisle tradition it is good company.