TV Review: Vigil is loaded up with tricks to make it addictive  — and it totally works

— sit back and enjoy the way the story lurches off in weird, unpredictable directions 

Martin Compston in Vigil, the new Sunday night drama on BBC One

Vigil (BBC One Sunday and BBC iPlayer) is like your take-away on a Sunday night. You know it’s loaded up with tricks to make it addictive, but you horse into it anyway and enjoy it while it lasts. The first two episodes have a nice few ‘woah, did that just happen?’ moments that wouldn’t have seemed out of place in similar shows like Line of Duty and Bodyguard.

Spoiler alert, but one such moment is the fact that they cast Martin Compston (aka Steve Arnott from Line of Duty) in a starring role, and decided to kill him after one scene.