By the 1980s, western cinema had perfected this art form. Superpowers in competition with one another developed awesome machines-rockets, jet fighters, submarines, and so on-that in real life are wasteful at best, but in fiction kick unfathomable amounts of ass.įrom the safety of a theater, millions of moviegoers could watch a handsome American actor-Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood, Patrick Swayze-outwit the commie menace, sometimes while piloting the latest from Lockheed Martin or Electric Boat like a star-spangled mech suit. There were many societal, environmental, and humanitarian drawbacks to this type of world order, but it was not without its advantages: namely, that Hollywood ate that shit up. The latter baked a genuine threat of annihilation into everyday life on both sides of the Atlantic. For the previous 50 years, the United States had competed with the USSR in every arena from astronomy to athletics to weapons development. In December 1991, the Soviet Union completed its yearslong collapse into 15 independent republics, ending the Cold War, resetting the balance of geopolitical power, and throwing the American entertainment industry into crisis. But Vigil is a submarine thriller for the 21st century.
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Once a bastion of TV and film, submarines have struggled to find their place since the end of the Cold War. It’s astonishing that it took until 2021 for the peanut butter of the prestige cop drama to mix with the chocolate of the submarine.Īs much as Vigil captivated British TV audiences with its superb acting and exciting twists, its most important contribution was bringing the submarine out of a 30-year voyage to the depths of cultural irrelevancy. We’ve known about the glorious dopeness of the sea since Homer sent Odysseus past Charybdis. The constant bustle of background activity, the innate tension of claustrophobia, the timelessness of a world where the sky goes missing for three months at a time-everything is inherently dramatic under those conditions. You know what’s better on a submarine? Everything. Vigil creator Tom Edge must feel like the man who invented the wheel, because this innovation is as revolutionary as it is obvious.
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