Unforgotten (TV Series) Episode #3.6 (2018) User Reviews

This amazing series gets a well deserved great ending.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 10/10 · 7 November 2018]

2018 has been an amazing year for drama, there have been some incredible shows, Bodyguard, Killing Eve etc. All great, but all suffered one thing in common, none of them ended on a high, all had average to good endings, Unforgotten's third series changes that run, this episode was sensational.

Part six has it all, it's tense, exciting, disturbing, and intensely entertaining, the story was compelling, the conclusion very hard viewing. The impact on Cassie was incredibly well handled. I loved how the main characters had back stories, but it never turned into a soap, it was always underplayed.

Alex Jennings is superb, Nicola Walker is off the scale, the acting, hers in particular was sensational, some of the best acting I've seen for a long time, it was quite extraordinary.

It's a winner. 10/10

Excellent Show All the Way Around

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 21 December 2021]

The only reason for less than a ten is that I am more oriented toward the crime and the criminal. I don't mind other plot elements being wrapped up, but I thought it used too much of the episode. We finally get to know the perpetrator and their actions. Then it is a bit anticlimactic. Still, I think this is some of the best acting in any venue anywhere. I also like that the casting uses rather ordinary looking people, not pretty actors playing ordinary roles. I had never heard of this show and have been enthralled by the three seasons.

Super talented cast!

[clthomas-81896 · 10/10 · 27 August 2021]

I discovered this show on a Friday night and had watched 3 seasons by my return to work on Monday. I do not enjoy American crime or mystery programs at all because the characters are stale and boring. I simply do not watch them.

Season Three Review

[southdavid · 8/10 · 7 April 2023]

I watched the first couple of seasons of "Unforgotten" as season four was highlighted on the Guardian's top TV of 2021 list. They disappeared before I could watch season three though, however, the impending arrival of season five saw them return to ITVX and I watched the third season. Despite its grim cold case theme, I still rather enjoyed it.

When a body is discovered during refurbishment work on the M1 motorway, Cassie (Nicola Walker) and her team are called in to investigate. They determine that the body belongs to Hayley Reid, a 16-year-old from a village in Hampshire who disappeared on New Years Day in the year 2000. The investigation comes to focus on four friends, Chris (James Fleet), Tim (Alex Jennings), James (Kevin McNally) and Pete (Neil Morrissey) who were holidaying with their families in the area at the time. Ironically, at the time the body is discovered, each has a separate reason for not wanting to become involved in the inquiry.

Again, I don't really like police procedurals that much, so it says something that I have watched three seasons of "Unforgotten" and plan to keep going. I rolled straight from the first season into the second and did feel that it suffered a little bit by being more of the same, so perhaps the gap I've had here ahead of the third season helped as this was the best season of the show so far. The case was really strong and presented all the principles as viable suspects and (without spoilers) I did like the resolution of this one being a different to just being someone who made a mistake and has been living with it for twenty years.

The personal storyline for Cassie was interesting, as she genuinely starts to wonder whether she should stick at this job, particularly when her accident in this one has catastrophic effects. I know that Nicola Walker is only doing one more series, so it does feel like we're feeding into a storyline with a resolution.

Bit of a gap and then onto season four I think.

Excellent series slightly let down by an average ending

[tonycarr · 10/10 · 9 November 2018]

I was absolutely hooked on this. Gripping storyline and excellent acting, particularly Alex Jennings. All the characters were well fleshed out without anyone being overpowering.

Two faults. The character of Sunny seemed to be distinctly underwhelming, needing more to do and the ending was a bit ho hum. Last time there was a really clever ending that Cassie had to work out. This time she stumles across some evidence, runs a DNA test and that's it. Looking forward to the next story

Some powerful content

[lotekguy-1 · 7/10 · 28 July 2021]

This season winds up with a couple of the most riveting exchanges of dialog in the whole series. Child abuse is described in compelling detail from the perspectives of both a victim's survivors, and a psychopathic perpetrator. Tough sledding, but brilliantly insightful.

When Beast Friends Fall Out

[Lejink · 7/10 · 26 May 2023]

My wife and I are working our way steadily through all the previous series of this excellent ITV police procedural drama.

Like the previous two runs, this six-parter was gripping and entertaining in equal measure, featuring a particularly chilling and nasty protagonist who turns out in fact to be a serial-killer (and rapist) of young girls.

However, what I did notice this time around was the reliance on the programmes's pre-established formulae from before. So, naturally it starts with the discovery of a dead body interred several years before. It turns out be that of a young teenage girl who had gone missing on New Year's Eve almost twenty years before, leaving behind her devastated twin sister and mother who have clearly never gotten over her loss.

Sure enough the case is allocated to Cassie, Sunny and their team where their investigations lead to the usual band of four interconnected suspects, a TV host, a doctor, a struggling financial services dalesanan and an artist with mental health issues, all one-time best friends whose marital relationships all coincidentally broke down the year following the girl's disappearance, although none were connected to her at the time. Cue the now familiar distorted flashback memories of the crime, deep dives into the lives and loves of the suspects and just for good measure the private affairs of Cassie and Sunny themselves, she, worried about her father's mental health and also hesitating over entering into a new relationship with a handsome detective from the original investigation and Sunny torn between his prodigal wife who now wants him back after previously leaving him with their two teenage children and the new love he's found in her stead.

Even more than this are the clear signs that Cassie's mental health is coming under severe strain especially as she seeks to get inside the mind of the evil killer in her midst. There are no doubt some out there in this day and age who might question why the one to edge towards a breakdown should be the woman and not the man, especially as she has always shown herself capable of keeping all the plates spinning in her private and personal lives, but I thought it fair enough to demonstrate the unimaginable stress and strain on the team leader of trying to solve such abhorrent crimes as this.

There was a fine performance here by Alex Jennings as the murderer and again the action and intrigue was expertly spread out over the six episodes with red herrings and potential suspects a-plenty.

As we move onto Series 4, I don't doubt the excellent quality of the show will continue but I would also just like to see a little less reliance on the familiar tropes and practices used in the three preceding series.