BBC One submarine thriller Vigil starring Suranne Jones has all the makings of a perfect Sunday night drama.
Warning: ThisVigilreview contains spoilers.
From the writer ofBBC detective seriesStrike, this thriller is just the thing to take us into autumn.
How are you with confined spaces?
Not great, judging by a flashback to Silvas family trapped underwater in a car accident.
Alerts and orders are repeated multiple times (Casualty, casualty, casualty.
Prepare to return to periscope depth, Preparing to return to periscope depth.
Dive the submarine, Dive the submarine.)
Its a seductive rhythm with an involuntary spine-straightening effect.
I could be a submariner, you start to think.
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Another entry in the no column: murder!
Burke died of a heroin overdose, says the Navy, but Silva says otherwise.
She and Burkes anti-nuclear activist girlfriend think he was was killed as part of a conspiracy.
In all our lifetimes, probably.
Whatevers going on, Silva will get to the bottom of it.
Suranne Jones character is gloriously competent and no-nonsense.
The mystery arrives flanked by exciting action courtesy ofBroadchurchandVanity Fairdirector James Strong.
The cliff-hanger ending sees Vigils nuclear reactor go into emergency shutdown.
Next ep: they battle a kraken, or something equally exciting.
The submarine setting makesVigila top twist on a familiar genre.
In summary: get on board.
Vigil continues on Monday the 29thof August at 9pm on BBC One, and thereafter on Sundays at 9pm.
