Long, Boring Vigil
The first series of "Vigil", while far-fetched in the extreme, actually benefitted from the action being principally set in the confined space of a submarine, with the feeling of claustrophobia at least adding some tension and excitement to proceedings.
No such luck here as the action is correspondingly opened up to the heavens beginning with a hijacked armed-drone exercise which kills seven British soldiers during a test run for a fictitious middle eastern country named Woduya, interested in buying the weaponry from the U. K.. This occurs in an extended and barely credible opening sequence which might have served as a prologue for "Mission Impossible" or James Bond feature.
When a trespasser with links to the oppressed opposition in Woduya is intercepted leaving the scene, it seems as if the perpetrators of the slaughter have been quickly identified. But of course, with six hour-long episodes stretching out ahead, it's not so easily resolved as all that. Suranne Jones's detective Amy Irvin is called in to investigate the murders and is soon caught up in heaps of foreign intrigue and military red-tape which will see her kidnapped, shot and kill until the while nefarious plot involving government collusion, arms-dealing profiteering, state oppression and treachery in the military is all tied up as well as hushed up by the finish.
I'm afraid I wasn't convinced by any of it. Jones's adventures in Woduya felt like all the previous series of "Our Girl" rolled into one while the investigation back home, led by her now pregnant partner, seriously overacted by Rose Leslie, proved equally inscrutable and improbable. The obvious identity almost from the beginning, of the traitorous insider didn't help much either.
With its mix of second-hand plotting, weak characterisation and mixed-quality acting, I rather wish this second series had likewise been shot down by a rogue drone before it got much underway.