Vigil (TV series)

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Vigil
Vigil (TV Series) Season 1 Logo.jpg
Genre Police procedural
Created byTom Edge
Starring
Music by
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes12
Production
Executive producers
  • Gaynor Holmes
  • Tom Edge
  • Jake Lushington
  • James Strong
  • Simon Heath
ProducerAngie Daniell
Production company World Productions
Original release
Network BBC One
Release29 August 2021 (2021-08-29) –
present (present)

Vigil is a British police procedural drama television series created by Tom Edge and produced by World Productions. The series premiered on BBC One on 29 August 2021. [1] [2] The first series stars Suranne Jones, Rose Leslie, Shaun Evans, Paterson Joseph, Gary Lewis and Martin Compston, and is set in Scotland, primarily onboard HMS Vigil, a ballistic missile submarine of the Royal Navy.

Contents

The second series premiered on 10 December 2023. It replaces the nautical setting of the first series with a land-based drama that focuses on prototype drone technology. Jones, Leslie and Lewis reprise their roles with Dougray Scott and Romola Garai joining the main cast.

Plot

Series 1

Detective Chief Inspector Amy Silva of Police Scotland is sent to HMS Vigil, a nuclear-powered Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarine, to investigate a death on board, which takes place shortly after the mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler. Her investigations, and those of her colleagues ashore, bring the police into conflict with the Royal Navy and MI5, the British Security Service.

The loss of the trawler Mhairi Finnea in the series bears similarities to the sinking of the FV Antares by Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine HMS Trenchant in the Firth of Clyde in 1990. Families of the Antares's crew expressed upset at scenes of the Mhairi Finnea foundering; however, the BBC denied that the drama was inspired by or based on a specific real-life event. [3] [4]

Series 2

When a Royal Air Force prototype combat drone is compromised and kills several soldiers during a joint demonstration in Scotland, Silva’s team are tasked with finding the perpetrator. She travels to joint Al-Shawka Air Base in the Kingdom of Wudyan, a controversial ally in the Persian Gulf, and discovers a wider conspiracy intertwined with current regime's collaboration with the British government and private enterprise on drone development. [5] [6]

Cast

Main

Recurring

Series 1

Series 2

  • Dougray Scott as Air Vice Marshal Marcus Grainger, a senior officer in charge of the R-PAS drone project [7]
  • Romola Garai as Acting Squadron Leader Eliza Russell, interim leader of British forces stationed at Al-Shawka Air Base [7]
  • Chris Jenks as Flight Lieutenant Callum Barker, a drone pilot stationed in Wudyan [7]
  • Anders Hayward as Flying Officer Colin Dixon, a drone pilot stationed in Dundair [7]
  • Shannon Hayes as Flight Lieutenant Nicole Lawson, a drone pilot stationed in Wudyan [7]
  • David Elliot as Ross Sutherland, a disturbed ex-soldier [7]
  • Oscar Salem as Captain Sattam Abdul "Sam" Kader, a Royal Wudyani Air Force drone pilot [7]
  • Nebras Jamali as Colonel Ali Bilali, commander of Al-Shawka Air Base in Wudyan [7]
  • Amir El-Masry as Daniel Ramsey, an MI5 officer [7]
  • Noof Ousellam as Paul Townsend, Silva and Longacre's junior police colleague
  • Steven Elder as Derek McCabe, Senior Vice President of Alban-X, the Scottish manufacturer of R-PAS drones [7]
  • Jonathan Ajayi as Wes Harper, an American citizen employed as chief software engineer at Al-Shawka Air Base [7]
  • Alastair MacKenzie as Wing Commander Anthony Chapman, former leader of British forces stationed at Al-Shawka Air Base [7]
  • Hiba Medina as Sabiha Chapman, Anthony’s daughter [7]
  • Dominic Mafham as Sir Ian Downing, Ramsay's superior in MI5 [7]
  • Tommy Sim'aan as Firas Zaman, a Wudyani journalist and dissident living in Scotland [7]
  • Khalid Laith Nicole as Abdullah Ghazali, leader of Jabhat Al-huriya [7]
  • Kamal Mustaffai as Mutaz, one of Ghazali's henchmen [7]

Production

In a 2021 interview, writer Edge was approached by development producer George Aza-Selinger to develop a submarine project for television. It was inspired by the UK's Continuous At-Sea Deterrent (CASD) and the life of its submarine crews. [8] The show was filmed and primarily set in Scotland. Production designer Tom Sayer created elaborate studio sets to represent the interior of the submarine. [9]

The first series received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the writing, pace, acting, visual style, set design, tone, and atmosphere, but it was criticised for the dialogue, plot, and inaccuracies. In March 2022, Vigil was renewed for a second series, [10] which premiered on 10 December 2023. [11]

Filming for series 2 took place during spring 2023, across Scotland, in locations including Glasgow, Coatbridge, Motherwell, Cumbernauld, Luss, Lanark, Blantyre and North Ayrshire. [12]

Scenes were filmed in Casablanca and Rabat in Morocco to portray the country of Wudyan. [13]

Music

The programme's theme music is the song "Fuel to Fire" from the 2013 album Aventine by Danish singer, songwriter and musician Agnes Obel. [14] Other music included in the series is composed by Afterhere (Berenice Scott and Glenn Gregory). [15] Episode 4 includes the song "Anchor" by Welsh singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Novo Amor, released as a single in 2015 and included on his 2017 EP Bathing Beach. [16]

Episodes

SeriesEpisodesOriginally airedAverage UK viewers
(millions)
First airedLast aired
1 629 August 2021 (2021-08-29)26 September 2021 (2021-09-26)9.64
2 610 December 2023 (2023-12-10)19 December 2023 (2023-12-19)5.50

Series 1 (2021)

  1. ↑ In an October 2021 press release, the BBC claimed 13.8 million viewers for Series 1 Episode 1, citing BARB 28 day consolidated data as the source. BARB 28 day consolidated data is not directly available to the public. [lower-alpha 2]
  2. "BBC's Vigil is the UK's most watched new drama in three years". BBC . 5 October 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2022.

Reception

Ratings

Series 1 Episode 1 attracted an audience of 10.2 million viewers across its first seven days, making Vigil the BBC's most watched new drama of the year. [35]

Series 1

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the first series an 85% approval rating, with an average rating of 6.6/10, based on 20 reviews. The critical consensus reads, "Vigil is ludicrous just as often as it is suspenseful, but a committed cast and pulpy pace make it worth diving in”. [36] On Metacritic, the series has a weighted average score of 83 out of 100 based on five reviews. [37]

Lucy Mangan of The Guardian found the first episode intriguing, awarding it five out of five and describing it as "solid, old-fashioned entertainment". [38] The Independent gave the first episode four out of five, praising the cast and Edge's writing. [39] In a four-starred review for London's Evening Standard , Katie Rosseinsky said: "Even scenes set in the depths of the sub are visually striking, lit up in reds and blues. Add in some jump scares, a handful of near-catastrophes and a couple of cliffhangers and you have all the makings of a taut mystery with intriguingly murky depths. Sunday nights are stressful again – I wouldn’t have it any other way." [40] In a five-starred review, Empire magazine described Vigil as "[a] relentless conspiracy drama bursting with performers who know how to keep their cards close to their chests. British TV doesn’t get more thrilling than this." [41] Hugo Rifkind in The Times described "[s]etting a whodunnit on a submarine" as "a masterstroke". [42] Giving the programme four stars, Suzy Feay of the Financial Times said that "The submarine setting has the welcome effect of pressure-cooking some fairly standard ingredients into a tasty concoction". [43]

Other reviewers were less complimentary, citing the unrealistic sets and other technical inaccuracies, the implausibility of elements of the plot, and its political bias. James Delingpole in The Spectator described it as "amateurish and implausible", noting that "the uniforms are wrong; the ceilings are too high and the sub generally far too spacious" and criticised "the hackneyed dialogue, the implausible plotting and the box-ticking". [44] Anita Singh in The Telegraph described the series as "so bad it could be Russian propaganda", and her colleague Ed Power noted that "the story was nonsense" and that "the premise was wasted". [45] [46] The Telegraph also reported that the naval advisor working on the series was an SNP councillor and anti-nuclear campaigner, leading to accusations of bias. [47] Carol Midgley in The Times said that "this subpar ocean drama made my heart sink", and described it as "stultifying". [48]

Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet said the series was "effective" in the beginning but more and more became like an "unnecessary under-water version of Line of Duty ". [49]

Series 2

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the second series a 58% approval rating, based on 12 reviews. The critic consensus read, "Taking Vigil out of its original submarine relieves the cabin pressure but also much of the suspense, although Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie's rapport still provides intrigue." [50]

Jack Seale of The Guardian awarded the second series four out of five, describing it as a "pacy, extremely good crime drama tackling murder on a military base" that was full of "political truth bombs". He also praised Jones's performance. [5]

Rebecca Cook of Digital Spy regarded the second series as inferior to the first, because it lacked the intrigue of the first series and settled "for something which feels far more ripped from the headlines". Cook however praised the second series for exploring the romantic human drama between Jones and Leslie. [6]

Paul Stacey of the Irish Independent gave the second series a critical review, describing it as a "daft and implausible cop thriller" with an "unlikeable lead". Stacey criticised Jones's performance as Silva as "drab... with little colour or depth". [51]

GQ pointed out serious flaws in the realism of the drones, but praised the imaginative way that the programme represented multiple drone technologies in one rather fantastical concept for dramatic effect. [52]

Accolades

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date  [17] UK viewers (millions)
7 day  [18] 		UK viewers (millions)
28 day  [18]
1"Episode 1" [19] James Strong Tom Edge29 August 2021 (2021-08-29)9.9612.75 [lower-alpha 1]
Chief Petty Officer Craig Burke, a member of the crew of a ballistic missile nuclear submarine HMS Vigil, reports his concerns over unusual sonar readings while on patrol. Confined to quarters following insubordination, he is later found dead in an apparent drug overdose. Police Scotland are asked to investigate and DCI Amy Silva and a man called Doward, Burke's replacement on the crew, are airlifted to Vigil's classified location. Unable to contact her colleagues by radio due to the sensitive nature of the patrol mission, she suspects the sailor was murdered, but the captain and other officers disagree. On land, Silva's DS and former lover, Kirsten Longacre, has begun a parallel investigation into Burke's movements and his acquaintances. She finds a clue during a search of Burke's room which she keeps hidden from the Navy. Vigil loses power suddenly when the reactor SCRAMs and the boat lurches in an uncontrollable dive.
2"Episode 2" [20] James StrongTom Edge30 August 2021 (2021-08-30)8.8011.81
The crew rush to restart the reactor and restore power. DCI Silva finds evidence to support her murder theory, but encounters resentment from most of the crew, apart from the coxswain Elliot Glover, in whom she confides the reason for her claustrophobia and fear of being underwater. Silva is also haunted by memories about the death of her fiancé during a car accident and having to make the difficult choice to save their daughter Poppy. After locking her in her cabin, Lieutenant Commander Mark Prentice, the Executive Officer, admits to striking Burke and concealing this when Burke was found dead in his bunk. Silva doubts the blow was fatal and thinks Burke may have been poisoned. DS Longacre is attacked when she arrives home to find two burglars ransacking her house. She makes contact with a young anti-nuclear weapons activist, Jade, who had been dating Burke and agrees to talk to her. On arriving at the rendezvous, she discovers that Jade has drowned.
YearAwardCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.
2022 GLAAD Media Awards Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series VigilNominated [53]
2022 British Academy Television Awards Drama SeriesVigilNominated [54]
2022 International Emmy Awards Best Drama Series VigilWon

International distribution

Peacock acquired the show and the first series was released in the United States on 19 December 2021. The second series was released on Peacock on 15 February 2024.

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