Vigil: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

Peacock | Season Premiere Date: December 23, 2021

Summary: Scottish DCI Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) investigates a death onboard the top-secret British Royal Navy submarine HMS Vigil in this thriller created by Tom Edge.

[Premiered originally on BBC One on 29 Aug 2021 and in the US on Peacock on 23 Dec 2021]

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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Empire Beth Webb

Dec 6, 2021

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. Read full review

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The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Dec 6, 2021

It’s a dense, sharply written (by Tom Edge), absolute treat of a show about a murky, unseen world that doesn’t want to break the surface and show itself, and one that viewers will surely want to dive into. Read full review

The Independent Ed Cumming

Dec 6, 2021

The script, by Tom Edge, who wrote the Oscar-winning Judy Garland film Judy, gets everything going at a brisk clip. The boat looks fantastic, more like a spaceship than the usual cramped tin can. The cast are solid throughout. Read full review

John Anderson

Dec 22, 2021

There’s a boatload of plotlines in “Vigil,” one of the better thriller series of the year and one in which a tangled web of intrigues is made as believable as the fathomless ability of humans to complicate a situation—at least long enough to last a satisfying six episodes. Read full review

The Times Carol Midgley

Dec 6, 2021

I was bored. I know it was a deliberate ploy to create a suffocating, airless atmosphere in which the walls are closing in and you fear for the ambience of the submarine lavatories, but the stultifying effect was almost too successful. During episode two my family yawned and abandoned ship. Read full review

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Sentient7

Dec 31, 2021

I love this show. I found it to be very entertaining so I'm shocked at the other user reviews.

2 of 4 users found this helpful22

geewah

Feb 3, 2023

This poiltical/murder thriller uses the clostraphobic confides of the submarine to build the tension well, but it does suffer from overegging the pudding with the plot which can be frustrating.

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shoulderoforion

Dec 28, 2021

If you've got nothing better to watch Vigil was alright, the sub/navy stuff is interesting in a "hunt for red october"/"crimson tide" kinda way, but the story does get a bit ploding

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

WatchinMovies

Dec 30, 2021

A reasonably good idea riddled with WOKE themes and ideas and a very plodding narrative. It should be titled "How to Ruin a Mystery". I actually stopped watching the show halfway through the fifth episode. Not worth it at all.

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hisavi

Jan 9, 2022

This show was comically bad. I advise anyone interested in watching this to save themselves from wasting their time on something fruitless.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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  Air Date: December 23, 2021
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