Hang on in there… Suranne Jones as detective Amy Silva in Vigil. Nobody in the navy seems to think this worth investigating. Silva is on the Vanguard-class submarine investigating the suspicious death, AKA murder, of a petty officer. Not great, appears to be the answer – and I imagine you wouldn’t be either if part of your backstory was having narrowly escaped drowning in a locked car. “How are you with confined spaces?” Suranne Jones’s Glasgow-based detective Amy Silva is asked at the beginning of six-part submarine thriller Vigil (BBC One).
Meanwhile, the Taliban are back, rolling through the streets in their tanks. “I’m comfortable with the decisions I made,” a chortling Bush says to camera, which isn’t quite the right tone when talking about a trail of destruction that left hundreds of thousands dead. There have been many films, books and television shows about 9/11, and there will be many more, but this is one of the most worthwhile. “We had no idea what was happening,” confirm the inner-sanctum talking heads. People were kicked out of the White House bunker because there wasn’t enough oxygen and they were poisoning themselves just by breathing. Most striking throughout is the incongruence between how recent that scarred, sky-blue day seems in the collective consciousness, and the realisation that 2001 was staggeringly rich in naivety and poor in technology.Īir Force One couldn’t get a television picture unless it flew so low over cities that it managed to pick up a satellite signal. When the secret service threw Cheney to safety but left everyone else to fend for themselves, his then first counsellor, Mary Matalin, remembers saying: “What are we – chopped liver?” Love, Barbara.” But the film-makers capture many moods – levity, even. But the extraordinary level of access allowed a much deeper excavation: fascinating, candid, first-source anecdotes, and a display of the disparate and nuanced shifts of human emotion that are experienced in real time during crises.Ī typically upsetting moment came when Ted Olson, Bush’s solicitor general, related the note he found from his wife after she had perished on United flight 93: “See you on Friday.
WAR ROOM PUTLOCKER ARCHIVE
There was archive footage of the grim, familiar scenes: the twisted metal remnants of the twin towers, like the jagged teeth of a screaming mouth. Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Karl Rove, Colin Powell, a host of behind-the-scenes staffers and George W himself narrated, minute-by-minute, the events that led us to the war(s) on terror. Documentaries tend to rise or fall on the quality of their contributors, and Inside the President’s War Room boasted a roster any Bush administration reunion tour would have been proud to assemble.
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