Red Eye (2024)

A British thriller built around one all-night flight from London to Beijing. Jing Lusi plays a Metropolitan Police officer escorting a surgeon, played by Richard Armitage, who is being extradited, and the bodies start piling up in the air while MI5 tries to keep up from the ground. Season one, six tense episodes on that single journey, is the reason to watch. Season two, which aired on ITV1 from January 1, 2026, moves the investigation to the US Embassy in London and leaves the plane behind.