#vigil bbc

[whatimdoing-here]

1.06 | 2.02

"It's hard for me."

#bbc vigil #vigil #vigil bbc #spoilers #vigil spoilers #amy silva #kirsten longacre #suranne jones #rose leslie #it's a lot #seems like ill freak out every time either of them say it this seaspm #*season #mine #mine: vigil #was gonna make 2 sets tonight but then PS locked up for an hour it was great

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#Vigil #Vigil BBC #Vigil 2021 #Kirsten Longacre #Rose Leslie #Danny watches Vigil

[analeasekittin]

Amy & Kirsten | someone to stay {2x06}

NEW VIDEO IS OUT ❤️

watch on HD (1080p}

#vigil bbc #vigil #edit #fan edit #youtube #silvacre #amy silva #kirsten longacre #wlw #rose leslie #suranne jones

[librawritesstuff]

A very special limerick for Tux Tuesday, inspired by @season-77

There once was a young man from Oxford

Whose demeanor was terribly awkward.

Although his life sucks

He looks great in a tux

And not bad in those “Vigil” black boxers

#endeavour morse #shaun evans #tux tuesdays #vigil bbc #hot damn #Endeavour’s been hitting the gym

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BBC's 'Vigil' season 2, episode 4 still, featuring Rose Leslie as DI (Detective Inspector) Kirsten Longacre and Amir El-Masry as MI5 agent Daniel Ramsay

#vigil bbc #rose leslie #kirsten longacre #amir el masry #danielramsay #season 2 #2023 #silvacre #suranne jones #amy silva

[mswyrr]

okay, s2 isn't as nail-bitingly perfect in its plotting, concept, and themes as s1 - HOWEVER, there is a scene where kirsten tells amy to go bring down some powerful baddies and then amy is like yes dear and puts on a power suit and gets shit done that made me very pleased

the power suit in question:

the way amy's partner says "jump" and she says "of course, on whose neck, darling?" LOL

#vigil bbc

[squiidass]

DCI Amy Silva, just doing her job.

DCI Amy Silva: So tell me, where were you when the murder happened and do you happen to know anything? Literally anyone she's questioning: What do YOU mean? What do you want? Are you aCUSSING ME? Who even let you in here?!,HOW DaRe YoU?!!?!

#vigil #vigil bbc #amy silva #really like? #whenever she is asking anything it is like it triggers a fight or flight response in whomever she is in front of #and i get that she is a bit blunt #but not in a way where i would discard her interview #mine #bbc vigil

[sapphiccharacterstournament]

Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round 1 (Bracket 3)

#stella gibson #the fall #the fall bbc #gillian anderson #amy silva #suranne jones #vigil #vigil bbc #vigil peacock #canon sapphic characters poll #tumblr tournament #tumblr bracket #sapphic #wlw #lesbian #bisexual #stella x reed #amy x kirsten

[cantsayidont]

August 2021. I'll freely admit that Series 1 of VIGIL has a solid hook for a detective story: Scottish civilian police detective Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) is assigned to investigate a suspicious death aboard the Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine HMS Vigil while it's still on patrol, effective trapping her in a claustrophobic environment where everyone has something to hide, no one respects her authority, and the commanding officers seem eager to sweep the incident under the rug even though there may be a killer onboard. Meanwhile, Silva's partner and ex-girlfriend Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie) investigates a related murder ashore, with both the Navy and MI5 seemingly determined to obstruct her at every turn.

The first few episodes are well-directed and well-acted, with a cast that also includes Connor Swindells (of SEX EDUCATION) and the perennially underutilized Anjli Mohindra, and the show initially maintains a high level of tension despite some implausible and cliched story elements. However, much like the American NCIS shows, the plot eventually does a jarring about-face that transforms what initially seems to be a rather sordid exposé of the Navy into a propaganda piece about the importance of maintaining Britain's nuclear deterrent, with activists who want nuclear weapons out of Scotland painted as cowardly dupes (a reminder that costar Rose Leslie is a Tory who campaigned for Remain in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum). All this is on top of some really egregious copaganda even by policier standards.

The main reason I bothered with the show at all was learning that the two lead characters were actually presented as lovers, or ex-lovers (as opposed to fandom "gay"). I'm as susceptible as anyone to Suranne Jones' expressively pensive frown, and Rose Leslie is certainly attractive despite her terrible real-world politics, but the faux-mo relationship between Amy and Kirsten is neither very convincing nor ultimately very satisfying. Part of the problem is that it plays second fiddle to Amy's traumatic memories of the death of her former boyfriend and her determination to regain custody of the daughter she raised with him — a lot of plot to squeeze into a six-episode series that's also preoccupied with murder investigations, official coverups, and nefarious Russian spies — but even the flashbacks to the beginning of Amy and Kirsten's relationship seldom suggest any real affection between them, much less passion or love. Given a choice, I guess I'd rather have a bad show with chaste and unconvincing wlw than a bad show without any, but it still feels like pinkwashing, a half-hearted and somewhat cynical attempt to attract viewers who might otherwise find the show's subject matter and politics too unpalatable. Given the show's surprising popularity, it seems to have worked.

I only watched the first part of the ill-advised second series, which awkwardly retains the same title despite no longer having anything to do with the submarine. The second series has Amy and Kirsten back together, but they're still at odds because they're about to have a baby, which replaces the first season's conflict about Amy's commitment phobia with a tonally identical conflict based on her being a passive-aggressive control freak about Kirsten's pregnancy, thus once again sparing Jones and Leslie the need to feign too much unseemly gay affection. There's one (1) scene of them cuddling to suggest that perhaps these characters do indeed love each other, but they're then separated by the contrivance of the plot, which has the same problems as the first series and is also chock full of racist, Orientalist nonsense involving a fictional Arab country called Wudyan. Truly dire.

#vigil #vigil bbc #suranne jones #rose leslie #paterson joseph #martin compston #connor swindells #anjli mohindra #jones has of course played various lesbian characters #including anne lister in gentleman jack #although that ended up focusing a lot more #on lister being a tory landlord and aspiring coal baron #than on historical lesbian drama #anjli mohindra is an appealing screen presence #but she's been criminally underutilized in at least THREE recent shows #the others being the lazarus project and the peripheral #teevee #wlw #hateration holleration #i eventually half-watched the rest of s02 #which is PAINFULLY racist and without virtue

[whatimdoing-here]

Vigil (2021 - )

Rose Leslie as Kirsten Longacre

"I never just wanted the parts of you that were easy"

#vigil #vigil bbc #rose leslie #kirsten longacre #we all (rightfully) love suranne #but like good god the head tilt #the way she looks through her hair #BUT ALSO THAT FIRST ONE WHERE AMY GETS BACK #and she just SENSES her #nah dude #she's beautiful that is all #the one where they're dancing and the one where they are in bed together almost end me every time #mine

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#Vigil #Vigil 2021 #Vigil Season 2 #Amy Silva #DCI Silva #Marcus Grainger #Suranne Jones #Dougray Scott #Danny watches Vigil #vigil bbc

[ignorant-rat-carcass]

Vigil S2 News

#yay!!!! #love to see it #also - don’t fuck this up guys! #Amy & Kirsten NEED to see out the season together and very much alive!! #I’m not fucking kidding! #vigil #vigil BBC #amy x kirsten #surrane jones #rose leslie

[jennamacaroni]

Do you have a top 10 list of newer WLW shows and/or movies everyone needs to watch RIGHT NOW?

from my list of recent shit ive watched, heres what ive enjoyed (in no particular order). not all of them are wlw mains obvi but all contain a wlw ship:

tv: vida (hard to see bc its on starz but seriously watch vida its the fucking best show), dickinson, she ra and the princesses of power (the new netflix one obvi), betty on hbo, sex education, the haunting of bly manor, feel good, atypical, gentleman jack, (and tho there wasnt a ton of wlw content i did really like) vigil, oh and obvi the san junipero ep of black mirror

movies: rafiki, saving face, a secret love (documentary), a portrait of a lady on fire, happiest season, the handmaiden, shiva baby, heart beats loud, crush, moonlit winter

#vida #dickinson #she ra and the princesses of power #betty hbo #sex education #the haunting of bly manor #feel good netflix #atypical #gentleman jack #vigil bbc #black mirror #rafiki #saving face #a secret love #a portrait of a lady on fire #happiest season #the handmaiden #shiva baby #hearts beat loud #crush #moonlit winter

[mics59]

Vigil (2021): 9/10

Very gripping show, it has everything someone might want:

- murder

- lesbians

- a submarine

- an emotional support redheaded man

- Russian spies

#bbc vigil #vigil bbc #idk which is the correct tag so im using both lmao #honestly I started watching this for Shaun Evans and I stayed for the actual plot #he delivered tho

[rivriv03]

Thursday 9th June

Vigil

Kirsten Longacre (Lesbian)

Amy Silva (Bisexual)

#lgbtq #pride #pride month 2022 #lesbian #bisexual #wlw #kirsten longacre #rose leslie #Amy Silva #suranne jones #vigil bbc #vigil #bbc vigil

[mswyrr]

Vigil s1 was brilliant beginning to end! The submarine as a reality, an intricate mystery, & a symbolic place where Amy undergoes a metaphorical death & rebirth (drawing up her trauma and choices and giving her a second chance to embrace life when she returns) was gorgeously done.

The romance was really well incorporated into the tension of the plot trying to solve the mystery and the pain & beauty of her arc - her terror of living and choice to embrace life in the face of its fragility. Excellent writing on that front. I wish more shows handled romance so well.

Minor spoiler!

The metaphorical death stuff didn’t fully hit me until she’s trapped due to [spoiler] in a symbolic coffin…

& what does she most want in the face of death? To make things right with Kirsten 🥹

The way the Morse code Kirsten taught her saves her was perfect! Really brought the themes together

#vigil bbc #amy silva #my meta #bbc vigil