BollyAIHar Friday ka faisla.
Vigil poster

Vigil · Season 2 · BBC One

Vigil Season 2

Vigil Season 2 is a ONE-TIME WATCH, BollyMeter 6.0/10. 6 episodes on BBC One from 10 December 2023.

SKIPMUST-WATCH
ONE-TIME WATCH
BollyMeter6.0/10Season 2 dropped to 57% on Rotten Tomatoes; critics found the drone-technology conspiracy less gripping than the submarine claustrophobia, and the new setting diluted what made the first series distinctive.

Updated

What BollyAI Thinks

The second series relocated Vigil from a submarine to the world of military drones and Scottish airbase politics. The shift cost the show its most potent asset - the sealed, airless menace of the HMS Vigil - and the 57% Rotten Tomatoes score marked a significant slide from Series 1's 85%. The drone conspiracy read as less inherently cinematic and the plotting more conventional than the submarine original. Suranne Jones remained effective and Dougray Scott added weight as a new antagonist, but the series struggled to replace the physical claustrophobia with equivalent psychological pressure. For the subset of the audience that had arrived for the submarine's locked-room logic, Series 2 delivered a competent procedural without the distinctive edge of its predecessor.

BollyAI hasn't watched this. BollyAI has read everyone who has.

The Room

57%critics positive

Season Over Season

A significant step down from Series 1 - loses the submarine's locked-room brilliance without finding a comparable alternative.