Unforgotten is back!

[QueenOfTheAndals]

Starts on Sunday on ITV1.

"A young curly haired Alex Jennings is in Morse on ITV3 at the moment!"

Ooh that was a good one iirc!

I do agree that NW can be annoying.

I like her, but she employs the same acting technique no matter what she's in. Her character in The Split was just a glammer Cassie!

Yes, I think Chris was a victim of a mass card cloning. In fact, this exact thing happened in 1999 and had huge repercussions with innocent men being questioned by the police etc. There was a long ongoing legal case that I think petered out - but I've a strong feeling that this case is what the writer based the storyline on.

Yes - Chris's credit card was a mass cloned one so no crime on his part at all but with devastating personal consequences for him being under that suspicion.

Also agree that the blogger was a way to show how quickly things go viral on the internet & the dangers of vigilante justice.

I liked that all the characters seemed to bd at peace & able to move on at the end (almost felt like that was the final ever episode but I hope it's not).

Ahh, I though I’d heard them say it was mass cloning, but some of the posts on here seemed to suggest I’d missed something

I’m not going mad, yay

Finally watched and read the thread

Can I say

I was right !!!! 😇😇😇😇😇

I said weeks ago it was doc

Tho he was very chilling with his matter of fact and Cup
OF tea comment

Oh
AND when he said about the scan my eyes prickled

And didn’t know she was in 4weds with Hugo

Just brilliant.

In every way.

Brilliant tv.

I was really disappointed in the last episode. I kept waiting for a twist that never came.

What a let down

I thought the impact of this total psychopath would have been lost with a tv twist. Seeing him as he truly is, and seeing it being the final straw for Cassie was, imo, far, far more powerful and truthful. I almost never cry over tv, but Cassie made me cheer her on and sob. Bravo Nicola Walker.

So hope there's another series.

mydog, don't you think that having a twist in the last episode of a series is getting far too predictable?

I've been thinking about why I feel disappointed by series 3 in comparison to the first 2. I think it's because it was a far less complex story.

In reality it was a country house whodunnit. Admittedly we didn't see the country house, but the only suspects were the house guests. And the list was narrowed down further to the men. Briefly the number went from 4 to 5 when it was discovered Elliot was a teenager.
The 4 suspects were a group of friends then and are a (albeit more distant) group of friends now. There wasn't the fascinating process of discovering how seemingly disparate individuals in the present were in fact linked in the past. In the other 2 series we were gradually shown the characters , and their relationships to each other and to the victim were revealed in the process of the investigation.

Whereas this group of suspects went to school together.

And all of the suspects were unpleasant or troubled (or both). It was quite easy to think any of them could have been the murderer.
I also feel disappointed because there was no reason for the murder in the context of the plot. It happened purely because Hayley was in the wrong place at the wrong time and met a psychopath.

There was no satisfying feeling of it finally all making sense - the last piece of the puzzle etc. You can't make sense of a psychopath.

I think I’m going to binge watch all 6 and see if that helps sort it out in my head, I felt a bit flat after the final episode. But I’m not good at retaining information, especially when there’s lots of it, so I’m hoping a binge watch will sort it all out in my mind.

Guienne, not for me no. I just felt really disappointed with the ending. Even when they found the knickers and necklace I just didn't think it would be the doctor.

His acting, along with all the rest of the cast, was brilliant but, for some reason, I just didn't feel shocked at his killings.

Hester - That's a good analysis. It's not dissimilar to an Agatha Christie, though with a good deal more psychological depth. So although I enjoyed it, the ending was a little bit disappointing. The second series was the best of the three so far as it felt like so much more than a whodunnit.

I looked back at my comments on this thread to see how wrong I'd got it and saw that at one point I'd written that Tim was clearly a baddie but that it would be too obvious for him to be the killer!

I really liked it, kind of different to the previous series and the twist was that in-fact there was no twist! It felt more true to life too in a case of murdererers and how they kind of get off on having all the information etc.

The “twist” was that he was a serial killer.

It was too easy that the rapist/murderer had kept a trophy from another victim, then confessed to both, and more.

Would have been far more interesting had he become prime suspect but they didn’t have the evidence.

I thought the ending was just right. I'd guessed it was the doc - he was just too glib.

I thought that the effect of his totally emotionless confession on the policewoman was heartbreaking. I know a number of police officers, and the emotional and mental pressure on the ones who work with paedophiles/ sexual violence cases is massive. Their burnout rate is huge.

It was very touching to see it depicted here.

Great summary Hester, completely agree.

Finally binged watched it over last two days.

Have been really irritated by the way Nicola Walker was playing Cassie in this series. She plays EVERY character the same. I’m beginning to think she’s a one trick pony.

I found Alex Jennings totally brilliant & believable - chilling. I think I understood that there are more bodies to be found as he said Alison wasn’t his first.

Kevin McNally brilliant as the guilt ridden father.

Neil Morrissey I thought a hapless person. Reminds me of someone I knew. Always trying to make it but never succeeding.

I’d rather the next series was Sunni & no Cassie.

Think it will be a while before I watch anything with NW in again & I used to love her

In wasn't disappointed in the slightest! I thought it was beautifully acted and written.

Sublimely powerful. And with a fantastic twist of Tim being a domestic absuer who had a dark history that was creepily acted.
Infact I preferred series 3 to the far more inferior series 2. Less pandering and far more evocative for it.

I'm left in awe. And want to know more like if second wife for Doc Tim has stoires to tell? What hasn't she said? (she was a Pollyanna character) . Has Elliot started to turn his life around now shadow has lifted? What happened to Cassie ala IPC investigation? And is the dastardly Jen still in the scene for Cassie's dad?(boo hiss!)

Each of the series have had different trajectories and all have been phenominally acted. I have bated breath on all, 3 series!

I think next time I ought wait til all 6 are available to binge watch. (But know I won't be able to wait and will just watch them anyway as they are screened!) .

I've enjoyed reading theories on here so much! Some.were right but no one guessed the end!

Don't know how I'll cope series 4, as I started to tell myself off about counting down days to the next
Sunday episode!

Whereismumhiding - actually it's not uncommon for serial killers to also be domestically violent. Not really surprising, given they're the capable of what they are.

@Graphista
Gosh thankyou for that.
Its unusual for TV to show DV abusers as an average nor intelligent functioning member of society such as a GP. Most DA perpetrators aren't serial killers as well.

It was an interesting and thought provoking outcome and final episode.