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The Guardian - Culture: TV & Radio Edit Unfollow Vigil episode one recap – what a maritime humdinger. Consider us hooked! by Michael Hogan Aug 29, 2021 The BBC’s new sub-aqua blockbuster from the Line of Duty producers is like HMS AC-12 – and it got off to a storming start Spoiler alert: this blog is for those watching Vigil on BBC One. Don’t read on unless you have watched episode one. Hands (and periscopes) up if you saw that coming? Star-studded submarine thriller Vigil began with a double bang, as first a fishing trawler was dramatically taken down – swiftly followed by one of the show’s marquee names, Line of Duty’s Martin Compston. Rest in peace, Able Seaman Steve Arnott, with your lockdown beard. Continue reading... Continue Reading Save Share Vigil review – Suranne Jones feels the pressure in sharp submarine thriller by Lucy Mangan Aug 29, 2021 Martin Compston is in trouble and Jones’s detective must calm the troubled seas, in a murky marine drama that delivers solid, old-fashioned entertainment Read the first of our episode-by-episode recaps A nuclear submarine. A dead body. A fishing trawler and her crew dragged beneath the waves by an unseen, unstoppable force. A reactor shutdown. Suranne Jones as a bereaved police detective battening down her grief to get on with the job. Martin Compston (DCI Arnott from Line of Duty) as – well, we’ll get to that. Paterson Joseph as a naval captain whose first duty is to his crew and his mission, not to a murder investigation. The BBC’s new six-part drama has all the ingredients to be an absolute humdinger of a series, and it is. Claustrophobics beware – the submarine scenes are very, very submarine-y, all tiny bunks, narrow corridors and building pressure in all senses of the word – but anyone who can bring themselves to watch will have hours of solid, old-fashioned entertainment delivered unto them. We begin with the trawler crew, bantering away until something snags them and starts pulling them – not quickly, quite harrowingly – down into the vasty deep. A mile away and beneath, HMS Vigil hears their distress call. Petty Officer Burke (Compston) argues that they should go to the rescue. Captain Newsome (Joseph) insists they must not give away their position or place themselves at the mercy of whatever did for the boat, and Burke is sent to his bunk to calm down. Continue reading... Continue Reading Save Share Ed Asner, who played Lou Grant in two hit shows, dies aged 91 by Associated Press in Los Angeles Aug 29, 2021 Actor shone in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and spin-off Spell as Screen Actors Guild president ended over liberal views Ed Asner, a burly and prolific character actor who became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, first in the hit comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show and later in the drama Lou Grant, died on Sunday. He was 91. Related: Ed Asner obituary Continue reading... Continue Reading Save Share

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