Land of spy, homeland of Ian Fleming and John Le Carré, Great Britain knows how to concoct breathless, fascinating, oppressive thrillers, to be devoured in one go.
The small screen has thus given birth across the Channel to
Power Games
(at the origin of an American remake on the big screen with Russell Crowe) and
Bodyguard
.
It is to this top of the basket that
Vigil
belongs , diving aboard a submarine with echoes of the neo-cold war.
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Bad times for the British Navy.
From the opening scene, a trawler is dragged down by the bottom in a tragedy reminiscent of that of the
Bugaled Breizh
.
Nearby crosses
HMS Vigil
, one of His Majesty's nuclear submarines.
Despite the plea of the golden ear which perceives the distress signals, the captain refuses to resurface to rescue the fishermen.
Helping them would be tantamount to revealing one's position and breaking protocols.
However, the crew does not know the nationality of the faulty stealth vessel: ally or enemy?
Shortly after, the protest radio operator ...
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