BBC viewers have been left scratching their heads after a puzzling scene in the new drama series, Nightsleeper . The new thriller, which aired for the first time on Sunday night (15 September), stars Peaky Blinders actor Joe Cole as Joe Roag , an off-duty police officer who finds himself on board a Glasgow to London sleeper train, which has been hijacked via a cyber attack. As the episode unfolds, it transpires that the train is being controlled remotely and is being used as a missile.
It leaves Joe and cyber security chief Abby Aysgarth (played by Alexandra Roach) as the only people who can stop it. Viewers have been left questioning how realistic the plot is – especially a moment when Joe and Abby start singing the lyrics to Kate Nash ’s “Foundations” to each other as the crisis escalates into a hostage situation. One viewer wrote on social media: “Who among us can honestly say they’ve never had a jokey singalong to a Kate Nash song when caught up in a deadly terrorist attack?” Another added: “Are they really singing Kate Nash when the train is in impending doom? I had high hopes for this.
” “#Nightsleeper is so absurd I am starting to wonder whether it’s intentional. So many plot holes it’s laughable. Giving episode 2 a go on iPlayer to see if it clarifies things,” said another viewer.
One viewer was more diplomatic as they concluded the series was “very watchable” but the dialogue was “toe-curlingly bad” including the “Kate Nash thing”.