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

[mynamechangemyrules]

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.

I wish Harry and Leo were still in it, I've given up watching it now, managed most of episode one of this new series but frankly, Nikki and Jack's relationship was making me feel queasy.

How many companies or organisations would allow close working together like they do and not have to provide sick buckets for the rest of the staff when the two of them start kissing.

I might have to go back to the Amanda Burton series and watch those again.

Yes! Why on earth don’t the police tell these people to stay in their lane? Realistically they would do the autopsy and the forensic work, write a couple of reports then hand it over to the police.

Who is funding them? Having all these highly paid people concentrate solely on one case for days at a time would cost loads.

At the end of every episode Im usually saying "But WHY" or "BUT HOW" or occasionally "but WHO??" because the plots are so awful.
I watching an episode of Astrid which opens on a plane yesterday and trying to remember another TV show which had a plane episode where the plane couldn't land for about five hours for no real reason apart from plot,and remembered yes it was Silent Witness. And remember the whole series about how DNA evidence was no longer valid because of weird science, that didn't go anywhere.

I love Silent Witness! But I'm under no illusion that it is a documentary. This series was ridiculous going from Jack being attacked in prison to Nikki being attacked in the next. It's the way that pretty much anyone seems to be able to walk around their lab that is supposed to be forensics.

There has been some real life forensic programmes on over the last few years, I think there's a new one running now.

I bet they fall about laughing or gagging if they even bother to watch the Nikki and Jack show.

I also love that occasionally the script remembers there must surely be other people working there, not just (currently) four people, and someone will walk past in the background or be asked to do something and then never be seen again.

@mynamechangemyrules I admire your persistence. I watched Silent Witness for years but gave up a couple of series ago. I couldn’t get past the complete lack of chemistry and stilted dialogue between the whole cast. Feel like I may be missing out now and might have another look, just for old times sake.

Same. Referred to as silent shitness here but I can’t stop watching. DH despairs of me.

Love this thread. Every year DH and I decide we won’t watch it again, but we’ve watched every episode since the pilot and it’s a hard habit to give up.

I adore the humour and intelligence of Francesca Mills’ Kit, and Maggie Steed is a great and quirky addition, but it is long past the time when Nikki and Butt-head - oops sorry, Jack - left the show. The plots are risible. Even Midsomer Murders and Father Brown make more sense.

But I do love watching for Emilia’s outfits…

It's a love to hate thing, really. Every time they get into mortal danger you know they will be free with one bound, and I love the way the cops are apparently happy to pay them to waste hours doing work that goes way beyond the remit of forensic scientists.. But if the voiceover philosophising is going to become a regular thing, we may have to give it up.

The shower scene - we were “eugh!” First she declines when he says “you coming in?” Then they start their forensics conversation which makes him irresistible and she jumps in! Nooo… unsexiest thing ever.

It goes by Witless Silence in my house, which I think we may have pinched from French and Saunders.

and Jack is always referred to as Karl Kennedy, as he seemingly was involved with every single aspect of medicine as Jack is with police work.

I hven't seen it for a while but always loved it.
Your choice whether or not to watch, surely.

People watch all sorts and it get popular even, look at Traitors nonsense, and masked singer or whatever it is called, and all that kind of crap.

The only purpose of it is to entertain, it either does or doesn't. If it does for you, it objectively fulfils its role for you.

It’s farcical these days. I feel no chemistry between Jack and Nikki, and that shower scene and knowing they intertwine themselves in chavvy gold sheets is even more unrealistic! Nikki used to look quite edgy in earlier series and I always wanted her blouses (!) but all of a sudden she’s lost her style and been downgraded, complete with annoying tightly woven plaits. They’ll have her in dungarees next! Their roles seem to cross many boundaries now which I find confusing. And the introduction of Kit … sigh … terrible actress who acts like a giddy 5 year old wanting to be high-fived rather than a professional person. Get rid and bring back Clarissa!

The problem is it used to be a fairly high quality drama and it has slipped in to farce. It a bit like booking to see the 3 tenors but getting the Masked Singer.

We call it Slightly Witless or Rightly Shitness.

I miss Harry! The actor seems to have vanished

Violent witless in our house

I like the actress who plays Kit, buts she’s Earthy Mangold in Worzel Gummidge and I can’t get past that!

@NeedSomeHeadspace Dungarees! 😂
With sensible shoes and twee cardigans .

I like Nikki’s outfits! I watch it to get inspiration for tops to go with jeans. Does that make me shallow? (Also like Kit and Maggie Steed)

Yeah. Latest series is just plain weird. I can't stop watching this fecking show and I dread them writing Jack out. Sigh.

We watch it out of habit too, but it really is dire. They don’t gel as a couple in the slightest, let alone whether they’d be allowed to work together.

I spent this last season commenting with various levels of outrage on Jack’s facial hair decisions 🙂 Oh and I didn’t understand the last two episodes. DH explained them to me…, and I still don’t understand them.