TV review: Suspicion and claustrophobia collide deep under the sea
Vigil features the reliably impressive Suranne Jones as a police investigator dissecting a murder below decks on a nuclear submarine
Vigil, BBC One
Nine Perfect Strangers, Amazon Prime
Only Murders in the Building, Disney+
As you might imagine, life on a nuclear submarine isn’t all fun and frolics, sea shanties and sailor’s hornpipes. The things can stay submerged for months, surfacing only to be resupplied with food. By which time, strangely, most of the crew will not have gone off their heads.
I was on a serving submarine once, a modernised US Navy boat that ...