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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Caspar Salmon

Sit back, stretch your legs, and ignore the murders: seven ways to survive ITV’s Red Eye

Red Eye - Season 1
Richard Armitage and Jing Lusi star in Red Eye. Photograph: Laurence Cendrowicz/Bad Wolf/Sony Pictures Television

At some point in your life, odds are that you will have to take a red eye flight for work, or a holiday. These long-haul flights, departing at night and arriving at their destination early in the morning, can be exhausting. But they are not always predictable – and, as is the case in ITV’s new thriller Red Eye, one of the passengers may be an agent intent on preventing the truth about a shadowy organisation from getting out. That being the case, here are some top tips for making the most of your journey, and arriving in one piece.

1 Maximise your sleep time
This is the most important step of all – and there are a couple of key tricks to ensure you get a decent kip. A neck pillow helps to relieve back pain from sleeping upright, and an eye mask is a must if you want to shield your peepers from the series of mysterious deaths on board that seem to point to Matthew Nolan (Richard Armitage), a doctor being accompanied by DC Hana Li (Jing Lusi) to Beijing, where he is suspected of murder. Sleeping pills are not recommended, but you may find that a couple of drinks from the free bar help send you off!

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