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

Suranne Jones and Shaun Evans in Vigil, a police drama set on a submarine. Picture: Mark Mainz

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 ...