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To watch Silent Witness despite it being the worst TV show ever?

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mynamechangemyrules · 10/03/2026 23:13

I’ve always watched it. It’s a Winter to Spring habit. Nikki is wooden and has never become a real character and the introduction of Jack… 😳
But this season is beyond- Jack’s pirates of the Caribbean makeover, Nikki staring thoughtfully into the distance and spouting some poetic existential lines. It’s the worst. And I can’t stop watching.

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CautiousLurker2 · 20/03/2026 00:12

mynamechangemyrules · 19/03/2026 22:41

Don’t make Harriet into a pontificating knob guys… Harriet speaks slowly and clearly about SHAME
Now the scriptwriters need to beat themselves on the back and shout SHAME SHAME SHAME until they start writing normal stuff.

and now I don’t like Harriet which makes this harder to watch.

Hope you’ve survived? I did decide, on the basis that not even Emilia’s blouses were up to scratch this season that it may be the last one we watch… until Feb next year and a new season arrives and we forget how awful it was.

It’s like childbirth, really.

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mynamechangemyrules · 19/03/2026 22:41

Don’t make Harriet into a pontificating knob guys… Harriet speaks slowly and clearly about SHAME
Now the scriptwriters need to beat themselves on the back and shout SHAME SHAME SHAME until they start writing normal stuff.

and now I don’t like Harriet which makes this harder to watch.

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mynamechangemyrules · 19/03/2026 22:20

Oh good god, it’s started with Nikki telling me what white represents! And explaining about Chinese Imperial Rule and Confucianism 🤪 FFS

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mynamechangemyrules · 19/03/2026 22:18

Friends, despite your sage words of wisdom, I have not been able to stop this compulsion. I’ve just watched the Jack punching a bloke one. What fresh hell. Jack showing regret and using the Nikki trademarked ‘ponderous glances and overblown literary sounding quotes’ in his redemption was THE ACTUAL WORST.

Also- is it the case that each of this series actually ends in an unresolved manner?!! I don’t want that in my murder mysteries! All solved please.

On to episode 9 now so only 2hrs left till I can release myself from this yearly purgatory.

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CautiousLurker2 · 12/03/2026 22:05

So, finally watched the last episode and I may actually stick to my resolve not to watch another episode next year… just WHAT was with all the voice over/internal monologues? Didn’t even like her blouses this season…

TrashHeap · 12/03/2026 20:58

Season 26 and onwards, have been absolutely atrocious. It used to be great, and now it's been dumbed down and comparable to a soap opera. They've done it on purpose of course; made it so you can fuck about on your phone and still follow the plot in the background. Honestly it's been painful to watch.

YachtMistress · 12/03/2026 19:56

mynamechangemyrules · 12/03/2026 19:27

Jack ‘rocking’ gym gear..?! ‘Pleasing’ facial hair..?!! Nooooooooooo he’s the worst bit of the whole binfire 😂

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Can't help myself 😎

WiddlinDiddlin · 12/03/2026 19:56

I love it and hate it it is utterly ridiculous, we've watched every single episode, starting a year or two back, binging the whole lot.

Every single episode I am shouting 'why are you out of the lab, you're NOT police'.

I am hoping either Nikki or Jack get sploded next series and we can have someone new in. Someone of Harrys calibre ideally.

It has one positive in more recent years, the hiring of actors with disabilities playing roles where their disability is largely irrelevant. I like that, we need to see more of that thankyou.

YachtMistress · 12/03/2026 19:52

Derek Shepherd, sigh

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mynamechangemyrules · 12/03/2026 19:27

YachtMistress · 12/03/2026 18:30

It's mesmerising.........
Nikki ( lovely knitwear/ questionable blouses) has 2 modes:

  1. stare into distance in a wistful manner and;
  2. talk in medical words of no fewer than 3 syllables

Jack, rocking sleeveless gym gear and experimenting with facial hair in a pleasing manner.
Love, love, love Kit and Harriet

Surely it's overdue for Nikki to be kidnapped again ?????

Jack ‘rocking’ gym gear..?! ‘Pleasing’ facial hair..?!! Nooooooooooo he’s the worst bit of the whole binfire 😂

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AWellReadWoman · 12/03/2026 19:09

I haven't been able to watch it since Harry left, Jack just doesn't compare 😂

Wingingit73 · 12/03/2026 19:06

Im.addicted to it. Id say the awful narration on last week was the worst. But i watch it. I dont know why😂😂

JustSawJohnny · 12/03/2026 18:59

I feel the same way about Grey's Anatomy.

I moan about it but in truth I know I will watch every possible second of it regardless.

Firtreefiona · 12/03/2026 18:59

Lucyccfc68 · 11/03/2026 21:30

Get your point about silent witness, but you are definitely wrong in saying it’s the worst TV show ever.

That accolade has to go to the likes of Love Island, Towie and MAFS. Absolute garbage.

But you know the shoes you mention are going to be garbage. SW has the veneer of a high brow show and it is UTTERLY SHITE! Every time I watch it (prolly about once a series) because i think it can’t really be that bad can it? And it is!

pomers · 12/03/2026 18:55

I always say I’m done now, then a new series comes out and I find myself coming back fir more🤷‍♀️

WarrenTofficier · 12/03/2026 18:46

YachtMistress · 12/03/2026 18:45

Spoiler Alert ??????

Nnnaaa she gets kidnapped every week!

YachtMistress · 12/03/2026 18:45

Spoiler Alert ??????

WarrenTofficier · 12/03/2026 18:43

YachtMistress · 12/03/2026 18:30

It's mesmerising.........
Nikki ( lovely knitwear/ questionable blouses) has 2 modes:

  1. stare into distance in a wistful manner and;
  2. talk in medical words of no fewer than 3 syllables

Jack, rocking sleeveless gym gear and experimenting with facial hair in a pleasing manner.
Love, love, love Kit and Harriet

Surely it's overdue for Nikki to be kidnapped again ?????

Umm have you not seen the last episode?

YachtMistress · 12/03/2026 18:30

It's mesmerising.........
Nikki ( lovely knitwear/ questionable blouses) has 2 modes:

  1. stare into distance in a wistful manner and;
  2. talk in medical words of no fewer than 3 syllables

Jack, rocking sleeveless gym gear and experimenting with facial hair in a pleasing manner.
Love, love, love Kit and Harriet

Surely it's overdue for Nikki to be kidnapped again ?????

NewZebra · 12/03/2026 18:14

My OH calls it Silent Wetness, always in an exaggerated French accent. No idea why.

JWhipple · 12/03/2026 18:11

Laiste · 12/03/2026 16:09

You love it then ?
🤣

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I did try to play it down...

Laiste · 12/03/2026 16:09

JWhipple · 12/03/2026 15:42

It's dreadful.
Even the early episodes are a pile of burning pubes.
You could put a photo of the cast and the script into chat GPT and it would come out with something more realistic and human.

You could give the script to a monkey with a typewriter and it would still improve on it.

It's so terrible it's visible from space.

You love it then ?
🤣

Laiste · 12/03/2026 16:08

I only just started watching this! I'm right at the beginning - series 1. Amanda Burton.

I hated the first one with the little girl
being murdered in the river but have pushed on.

I've just watched the one with all the youngsters in a house and a bit of voo-do and a body with ivy.

Her slobby sister is annoying. The daft jealousy. How would 2 sisters grow up so different?

JWhipple · 12/03/2026 15:42

It's dreadful.
Even the early episodes are a pile of burning pubes.
You could put a photo of the cast and the script into chat GPT and it would come out with something more realistic and human.

You could give the script to a monkey with a typewriter and it would still improve on it.

It's so terrible it's visible from space.

Bubobubo · 12/03/2026 00:29

Nofeckingway · 11/03/2026 08:04

Where is his deaf daughter gone ? And I couldn't follow the Chinese/not Chinese storyline very well mainly because I found it so twisty that I I fell asleep .
Her plaits are hilarious 😂 And no more mention of Kit's admirer . The piano and pearls with the elaborate hairdo whilst watching Nikki plunge her hand into some gooey substance is pure farce .

Wasn't she Jack's niece, not his daughter?

This series has been awful, but i'll be tuning in for series 30 next year 😅