ITV’s new thriller, Red Eye, has many similarities with the real thing. For the uninitiated, red eyes are long haul overnight flights. Usually, they’re drawn-out, boring affairs.
Well, the same applies to the show. It begins, naturally, at an airport. Dr Matthew Nolan (Richard Armitage) has just arrived in London after the 10 hour flight from Beijing but is promptly arrested at Heathrow for a crime he denies knowledge of.