British thriller applauded for ‘excellent’ storytelling soars up Amazon Prime charts

A British thriller which has been praised for its ‘excellent’ storytelling with an ‘amazing’ formed has climbed its mode up Amazon Prime charts.

The Rig, starring Line of Duty’s Martin Compston and Rochenda Sandall, Schitt’s Creek’s Emily Hampshire and Game of Thrones prima Iain Glen, has returned for a 2nd play connected the streaming service, aft archetypal airing successful 2023.

The archetypal series, consisting of six episodes, followed a radical of lipid workers, the Kinloch Bravo crew, led by Magnus MacMillan (Iain), who were stationed disconnected the Scottish coast, surrounded by the dangerous waters of the North Sea.

Before being collected home, they go engulfed successful heavy fog and chopped disconnected from their connection systems, and soon realise they’re being infected by the mysterious substance surrounding them, causing assorted supernatural reactions.

As struggle and eco panic ensues, The Rig begins to rise important questions astir mankind’s relationship with quality and biology catastrophes.

Season 2 looks to beryllium conscionable arsenic melodramatic arsenic the first, with the synopsis teasing: ‘On a caller high-tech rig heavy successful the Arctic Circle, the surviving lipid workers of the Kinloch Bravo judge a unsafe ngo that sends them crossed the treacherous frozen oversea – and towards secrets hidden heavy beneath it.’

Fans are intelligibly already hooked, with the bid reaching the fig 10 spot connected Amazon Prime Video’s UK TV illustration aft launching connected January 2.

Martin antecedently teased The Rig arsenic the ‘biggest show’ he’d ever worked on up of play one’s release.

The Fulmer Hamilton histrion said: ‘I’ve worked with [director John Strickland] a fewer times and he’s got astir a people astir him.

‘He ever has a large acceptable due to the fact that John is precise calm and precise comic and you spot him.

‘When I spoke to him astir it, it was the standard of the happening that I recovered exciting. It’s the biggest happening I’ve ever worked connected successful presumption of the ambition of it.’

Despite climbing its mode up the charts, play 2 has mixed reviews connected Rotten Tomatoes, with an awesome 80% people but an underwhelming 35% Popcornmeter rating.

‘Just arsenic bully arsenic play one! A batch of dots are connected and discoveries made. There is simply a batch of imaginable communicative near to tell!’ 1 viewer, Isaac B, wrote, giving it 5 stars.

Conner M added: ‘Great bid that explores existent biology issues done sci-fi successful a tense and breathtaking way. Admittedly, it was a small dilatory astatine points but wide kept maine funny and anxious to ticker the adjacent episode. Definitely worthy the watch!’

Others claimed it wasn’t arsenic bully arsenic play one, with Audrey W writing: ‘Nowhere adjacent arsenic bully arsenic Season 1. I persevered but it’s dilatory and excessively “wordy”.’

‘Screen play is truthful bad… Boring and going nowhere. Season 1 was bully but this is conscionable wast of time…,’ AB fumed, giving the 2nd play a measly 1 star.

‘Totally hooked an astonishing formed and storyline Hopefully we get a 3rd season,’ 1 reviewer, J R, meantime said.

Over connected X, @OldYesButWise wrote: ‘Watching S2 of “The Rig” (on Amazon). Excellent sci-fi that hits hard connected galore clime & biodiversity issues successful the existent world.’

@sunrisereapiing said: ‘The Rig connected amazon premier is the mid sci-fi amusement tv has sorely been missing the past fewer years,’ earlier adding: ‘is it doing thing groundbreaking? no. americium one enjoying myself? yes and that’s the astir important thing.’

The stars of the amusement person pondered implicit a 3rd instalment, sharing their eagerness to return.

Rochenda said, according to The Scottish Daily Express: ‘We’d ever similar to travel back!’

Iain agreed: ‘We would emotion to travel back.’

He went on: ‘In each honesty, we truly emotion doing it. We deliberation there’s much communicative to tell, you know.’

The Rig is disposable to watercourse connected Amazon Prime Video.

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