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Vigil

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2021 58mDrama, Crime,

7.471%72%

The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board a Trident nuclear submarine bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva leads an investigation on land and at sea into a conspiracy that threatens the very heart of Britain's nuclear deterrent.

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2 Seasons

Series 1
Series 16 Episodes
Series 2
Series 26 Episodes

Cast of Vigil

Suranne JonesDCI Amy Silva
Rose LeslieDS Kirsten Longacre
Gary LewisDSU Colin Robertson
Shaun EvansElliot Glover
Romola GaraiEliza Russell
Anjli MohindraTiffany Docherty
Martin CompstonCraig Burke
Paterson JosephCommander Newsome
Chris JenksCallum Barker
Connor SwindellsSimon Hadlow
Jonathan AjayiWes Harper
Adam JamesLt Commander Mark Prentice
Amir El-MasryDaniel Ramsay
Lolita ChakrabartiBranning
Oscar SalemCaptain Sattam Abdul Kader
Stephen DillaneShaw
Dougray ScottMarcus Grainger
Lauren LyleJade Antoniak
Nebras JamaliAli Bilali
Shannon HayesNicole Lawson
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Vigil Ratings & Reviews

Callum3d ago

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Vigil – Depth, Duty, and the Dread Beneath Some shows aim high; Vigil dives deep. What begins as a seemingly straightforward procedural quickly becomes one of the most gripping British thrillers in recent years — part murder mystery, part political drama, and part pressure cooker confined beneath the waves. Suranne Jones commands every frame as DCI Amy Silva, a woman forced to investigate a suspicious death aboard a nuclear submarine that refuses to surface. Claustrophobia drips from every bulkhead; the walls feel too close, the air too stale, the truth just out of reach. Her performance is raw and intelligent — equal parts control and collapse — and she manages to make the smallest twitch of doubt feel like an implosion. Rose Leslie, fresh from Game of Thrones, provides a steady counterbalance on land, chasing political threads while Silva wrestles with ghosts of trauma and the quiet menace of the deep. Season one is a masterclass in tension — a murder mystery that replaces ticking clocks with sonar pings and steel doors that may as well be prison bars. Then, season two breaks the seal and takes us to open skies and dusty battlefields, trading suffocating corridors for drone warfare and moral fog. The contrast works brilliantly: from the crushing pressure of the ocean to the blinding exposure of the desert, Vigil proves that danger doesn’t need darkness — it just needs power unchecked. In tone, it sits somewhere between Line of Duty’s procedural grit and Bodyguard’s restrained intensity. It never plunges into the hopelessness of Blue Lights’ Warhammer-esque grit, but nor does it shy from the moral murk. This is British drama at its best — tightly coiled, emotionally charged, and laced with that quiet institutional tension where rules and conscience are never quite aligned. You can see the truth, you can almost touch it, but the system keeps the lid screwed on tight. Two seasons in, Vigil remains taut, smart, and full of moral bite. And if the Navy and Army have had their turns, the Air Force must surely be next — though heaven knows how Silva will conduct an interrogation from the cockpit of an F-35. ☕️ Pairing: A strong black tea with a drop of whisky — comforting yet bracing, much like Silva herself: unflinching, complex, and just the right kind of bitter.

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