Prime-time Series Screening: Sundance Channel presents ‘The Red Road’

“The Red Road” is a gripping, dramatic thriller that presents two distinct visions of America today as played out through the conflict between two wildly different men. The series revolves around a local sheriff struggling to keep his family together while simultaneously policing two clashing communities: the small town where he grew up, just outside of New York City, and the neighboring mountain ­home of a Native American tribe. After a terrible tragedy and cover-up further divides these worlds, an uneasy alliance is forged between the officer and a dangerous member of the tribe. As these two men find themselves increasingly compromised by one another, and the emotional ghosts of their collective pasts begin to emerge, the lives of both men quickly unravel, leading to terrible consequences.

Episode: “Pilot”

In the small town of Walpole, New Jersey, police officer Harold Jensen is investigating the disappearance of a missing NYU student who was last seen up in the neighboring Lenape Mountains. As Harold tries to balance his increasingly stressful professional duties, his home life begins to fall apart when his wife, Jean, soon finds herself responsible for a shocking tragedy that will upend the lives of all involved.