New BBC drama Vigil

[timsussex]

could any RN ship be such a shambles with so many spies aboard ? there would have been at least a dozen court martials

and the bit where the chief villain levers off a half inch plate which was bolted down with a dozen 10mm  bolts  and how did the XO find our heroine when she had stopped banging and he had lots of other things to do - must admit i'd lost interest by then

[Ronald Trump]

Vigil is well timed as our great nation joins forces with USA & Australia to build our own nuclear-powered submarines!

And stamp our feet in the Indo-Pacific ocean right in front of China!

Hilarious to think any fool from Scotland would vote to leave this nation LOL. 

[Gordon Bennett]

could any RN ship be such a shambles with so many spies aboard ? there would have been at least a dozen court martials

and the bit where the chief villain levers off a half inch plate which was bolted down with a dozen 10mm  bolts  and how did the XO find our heroine when she had stopped banging and he had lots of other things to do - must admit i'd lost interest by then

Yes. I sat through it all and wondered why I'd bothered. I suppose they rely on fact many people just want to crash on the sofa and veg out at 9pm on a Sunday.  If they scrapped all the unnecessary fluffy backstory/flashback shit it could've been a pacier three episodes instead of the six week slog it turned into.

[Marmalade]

Yes. I sat through it all and wondered why I'd bothered. I suppose they rely on fact many people just want to crash on the sofa and veg out at 9pm on a Sunday.  If they scrapped all the unnecessary fluffy backstory/flashback shit it could've been a pacier three episodes instead of the six week slog it turned into.

I’m pleased some others people also think it wasn’t the best thing since the Magic Roundabout. I reckon ‘a slog’ sums it up nicely. Three episodes would have done nicely. After episode two it was just a case of waiting to see how they tied up episode 6.

Compare it to the likes of Killing Eve, Fleabag, Many Little Fires in which each episode was entertaining in itself rather than a stopgap to the ending. Even the Queen’s Gambit had character development.

Nine Perfect Strangers has just finished and was just as bad — a series of contrivances just enough to keep you hooked. Ah! Woe is television!

[Watts.E.Dunn]

I’m pleased some others people also think it wasn’t the best thing since the Magic Roundabout. I reckon ‘a slog’ sums it up nicely. Three episodes would have done nicely. After episode two it was just a case of waiting to see how they tied up episode 6.

Compare it to the likes of Killing Eve, Fleabag, Many Little Fires in which each episode was entertaining in itself rather than a stopgap to the ending. Even the Queen’s Gambit had character development.

Nine Perfect Strangers has just finished and was just as bad — a series of contrivances just enough to keep you hooked. Ah! Woe is television!

Indeed! Puff that Idiots Lantern!, pray tell the Wireless OK still for you Sir?...

[Thephoenix]

The plot (when you could find it), had more holes in it than the bulkheads.
And that valve on the f'ward aft abaft the amidships poop deck??
What was it?
My recollection of nuclear submarines makes me wonder if it was the reciprocal centrifugal non return foo-foo clack valve?

[scutty brown]

Poop deck? Don't subs have heads?

[Colston36]

Nothing woke about lesbians and black people being involved or in positions of power, it's being reflective of the times we live in. Better that than yet another middle aged white man hero.

Comparing it to LoD is like comparing apples and oranges. Beyond the "corruption at the highest level" angle, they are different things.

I liked it. However I'm not sure there's 6 episodes of content there.

It is indeed reflective and has been the case for some years. In my last corporate job - over twenty years ago - the head of American Express, our biggest client, was black. The successive worldwide heads of our business which was New York based were two women followed by a gay guy.

[Thephoenix]

Poop deck? Don't subs have heads?

Deckhead!......no offence.