Remember Vigil, the BBC One crime drama in which Suranne Jones was trapped in a submarine? Jones played DCI Amy Silva, a police detective who was assigned to investigate a mysterious death aboard a submarine, then became trapped inside it, locked in with all the suspects and the killer. Meanwhile, her colleague and lost true love, DS Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie), helped to probe the case on the Scottish mainland, all the while worried her rightful life partner was trapped in a submarine.
Thanks to the ingenious tension-tripling twist of trapping the protagonist in a submarine, Vigil was one of the BBC’s biggest hits of 2021. So, where to now for the popular trapped-in-a-submarine drama? DCI Amy Silva is back for a new season, but she’s not trapped in a new submarine. Nor is she aboard a hijacked plane, stuck in a broken lift or wedged in a cave after a potholing mishap. She’s not trapped at all! What are they thinking?
