One Lane Bridge

During a murder investigation in Queenstown, an ambitious young detective reawakens a spiritual gift that endangers the case, his career and his life.

One Lane Bridge (2020-2022) is a New Zealand television crime drama created by Philip Smith III and Pip Hall for TVNZ 1. Across three seasons and sixteen hour-long episodes, it follows an ambitious young detective, Ariki Davis (Dominic Ona-Ariki), whose career is built on tenacity and procedure until a spiritual gift he has long suppressed begins to resurface during a murder investigation in Queenstown. The engine of the show is the tension between his professional ambition and an intuition that his colleagues cannot verify, and every case threatens to expose him or cost him his standing. Senior figure Stephen Tremaine (Joel Tobeck) anchors the investigative world around him, adding pressure and friction to each inquiry. Each season unfolds as a serialized mystery in which individual investigations feed a longer arc about belief, responsibility and the cost of hidden truths. The setting is a scenic southern New Zealand town whose beauty contrasts with the grim crimes at its center. The atmosphere is brooding and tense, with a quietly melancholic register and moments of unsettling dread. Fans of Mystery Road and Hannibal will find resonance in its moody crime texture and its detective wrestling with an inner gift that complicates the chase for justice.

Audiences rate One Lane Bridge as a mixed but watchable New Zealand detective drama, with its Queenstown setting and supernatural twist drawing steady interest.

• Mystery Roadspiritual mystery, police procedural investigation, New Zealand setting
• Lucifercrime procedural with supernatural intuition driving investigations
• Hannibaldetective with a supernatural gift complicating a murder case, moody crime tone

Created by

Philip Smith III, Pip Hall

Release Date

2020-04-20

Episode runtime

52 min

Rating

6.6 / 10 (82)

What is One Lane Bridge about?

An ambitious young detective in Queenstown must wrestle with a reawakened spiritual gift that threatens the murder case and his own life.

What is One Lane Bridge like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of One Lane Bridge as brisk, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as layered.

Is One Lane Bridge violent?

Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in One Lane Bridge as moderate.

What did critics think of One Lane Bridge?

Audiences rate One Lane Bridge as a mixed but watchable New Zealand detective drama, with its Queenstown setting and supernatural twist drawing steady interest.

Which shows are like One Lane Bridge?

Shows with a similar feel include Mystery Road, Lucifer, and Hannibal.

How long is One Lane Bridge?

One Lane Bridge: 3 seasons, 16 episodes.

Is One Lane Bridge still running?

No, One Lane Bridge has ended.

Where can I watch One Lane Bridge?

In United States, One Lane Bridge streams on Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+, Acorn TV, AcornTV Amazon Channel, Spectrum On Demand, Acorn TV Apple TV channel.