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Silent Witness - news series for 2024 starts tonight - what will our multi tasking pathologists get up to this time.

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IwantToRetire · 08/01/2024 18:30

I know fron the last series that many think this is a series that should have quietly been taken of air years ago.

But the telly addicts thread last time was so funny that it made it worth watching just to be able to join in the comments.

As our two lead characters have zero chemistry and barely speak, and they rarely do any actual pathology, one can only speculate what even more far fetched adventure they will get up to this series.

Not forgetting each more implausible fashion get up Nikki will be wearing to work each episode.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b007y6k8/silent-witness?seriesId=m001v6nh

Silent Witness

Drama series about a team of forensic pathologists.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b007y6k8/silent-witness?seriesId=m001v6nh

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WingingItSince1973 · 14/02/2024 22:32

JodieFostersFurHood · 14/02/2024 19:47

I can't focus on Hermione Norris's character because she looks like she has had something done to her eyes since Cold Feet days.

I thought that too. Shame as she is naturally gorgeous

CherryogDog · 14/02/2024 23:26

@GuinnessBird S2, she played a human trafficker, completely different to goody two shoes Nicky!

WatchOutMissMarpleIsAbout · 15/02/2024 08:12

I’ve seen EF in the flesh. She is ethereally beautiful- much more stunning in real life. And with the most amazing posture. Made me sit up and I’m definitely her senior in years.

Flamme · 15/02/2024 09:59

Walkinmyshoes3 · 25/01/2024 18:03

knowing my wage also I have no idea how she afforded that house in London and her wardrobe 🤣

The Lyle clearly makes a fortune, because the police have vast budgets and never bat an eye at having to pay for their entire senior staff dropping everything and spending all their time on a single case, nor do they mind paying them to do absolutely basic stuff like taking DNA samples. They're also happy to pay them to do non-sciency things like sitting in on interviews and searching around for non-forensic evidence. Hence their ability to pay Emilia so well.

SoundTheSirens · 15/02/2024 10:54

Flamme · 15/02/2024 09:59

The Lyle clearly makes a fortune, because the police have vast budgets and never bat an eye at having to pay for their entire senior staff dropping everything and spending all their time on a single case, nor do they mind paying them to do absolutely basic stuff like taking DNA samples. They're also happy to pay them to do non-sciency things like sitting in on interviews and searching around for non-forensic evidence. Hence their ability to pay Emilia so well.

They got rid of all the other staff bar those four specifically to keep Nikki in tank tops and big houses. I remember when all this was fields they had silent mortuary technicians working away in the background. Can't afford them now, that money is ringfenced for Nikki's lifestyle.

WatchOutMissMarpleIsAbout · 15/02/2024 23:40

Is that the end of SW? Shame as it got back to its roots in a way.

DowntheTown · 16/02/2024 21:59

I enjoyed the last pair of episodes much more than any in ages. Re the shouty voice upstairs - alcoholism-induced hallucinations? He chucked his whisky down the sink after hearing them…

“Alcoholic hallucinosis is a rare complication of chronic alcohol abuse characterized by predominantlyauditory hallucinations that occur either during or after a period of heavy alcohol consumption.”

diddl · 16/02/2024 22:00

DowntheTown · 16/02/2024 21:59

I enjoyed the last pair of episodes much more than any in ages. Re the shouty voice upstairs - alcoholism-induced hallucinations? He chucked his whisky down the sink after hearing them…

“Alcoholic hallucinosis is a rare complication of chronic alcohol abuse characterized by predominantlyauditory hallucinations that occur either during or after a period of heavy alcohol consumption.”

I thought that when he was on the phone to Keith he also heard as he said something like "sounds as if you're needed/have to go"?

Flamme · 16/02/2024 23:52

Iwantacampervan · 14/02/2024 08:34

Was there a continuity error with Cara? Last week she told Julie Graham that she'd finished her placement & was just printing out her assignment, this week she was back with her interpreter.
I still don't know how Nikki can manage to live in a different lovely house every series!

Didn't Jack or someone say something about trying to get authorisation to extend the placement? Though presumably she would have to go back to college at some point?

Flamme · 17/02/2024 00:08

IwantToRetire · 08/02/2024 18:05

Not just some of us confused! Silent Witness fans complain they’re ‘totally lost’ after latest episode (yahoo.com)

NB Last paragraph has spoilter for next week's episodes (shame)

I quite enjoyed those two episodes purely on the basis they were so bad they were funny. Starting with the head of the Lyell letting someone have free access to anything and everything in the lab just because she phoned up and claimed to be thinking of offering them a fat Home Office contract, it didn't really ever get more credible. Vintage SW at its most terrible.

IwantToRetire · 17/02/2024 00:22

Vintage SW at its most terrible.

Well to be picky vintage would be Amanda Burton, and dont think she would have let such sloppiness happen. She would have given one of her stern looks.

But in fact the sillier the series got, the more I went on watching. But think since the Jack Nikki partnership it has been unintentionally comic most of the time.

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LadyEloise1 · 17/02/2024 09:49

I missed the ending of Episode 8 - Grrr 😡
What happened please ?
Who killed Htin and Elinor and her senior policeman escort and why ?
Who was Oceanfloor ?
Cornflower was Kazkade woman.
It was hard to follow and your disbelief had to be suspended !

happypillsareworking · 17/02/2024 16:23

LadyEloise1 · 08/02/2024 11:36

I too wondered about paying Cara's interpreter. Is this factored into a business's budget ?

I thought she'd got a job there now. If that was the case then access to work would pay for an interpreter.

LadyEloise1 · 18/02/2024 10:13

So was Kaskade woman Cornflower and Oceanfloor ?

MarilynBoo · 18/02/2024 10:30

happypillsareworking · 17/02/2024 16:23

I thought she'd got a job there now. If that was the case then access to work would pay for an interpreter.

It said on an earlier episode that the interpreter is through Access to Work.

happypillsareworking · 18/02/2024 10:46

@MarilynBoo I did wonder if I had imagined hearing that. It comes up as a topic in BSL exams but I always avoid as it's complicated 🤣

coleslaweleanor · 26/02/2024 18:45

Why on EARTH did Keith kill Carl at the end?

HalleLouja · 26/02/2024 19:38

coleslaweleanor · 26/02/2024 18:45

Why on EARTH did Keith kill Carl at the end?

It didn’t make sense. Apart from the fact he already murdered Russell and thought fuck it, what have I got to lose?

I am not sure why he murdered Russell in the first place though. It would have made more sense if he was the murderer.

thesleepyhoglet · 27/02/2024 21:54

Whatevershallidowithmylife · 09/01/2024 15:23

I haven’t watched this since Trevor Eve?” (if it’s the same programme)? I quite enjoyed it - easy watching!

That's waking the dead which sadly finished but I preferred. Might dig up (see what I did there) some of the old ones!

mynamechangemyrules · 03/03/2024 20:14

Lastqueenofscotland2 · 06/02/2024 21:02

As soon as ther was the opening scene in Myanmar I knew it was going to be a bit shit 😅

Absolutely 😆 whenever they go 'foreign' it's even shitter than usual Violent Shitness 🤣
Also having worked in Myanmar you'd not find a young bloke with a worldwide outlook chewing betel 🙄

mynamechangemyrules · 03/03/2024 20:18

Also I wanted to say to every one of you- thanks for the read-along comments! I'm only up to 7th Feb comments as I'm behind.

We used to watch it at uni and my Irish housemates would do excellent 'posh Irish woman thinking' impressions of Amanda Burton.

Then with my ex husband one of the happy times I can recall is watching this absolute tosh and enjoying at least the story arc.

But Clarissa is needed! Or someone with some wit and acting skills.

Having the 'celeb'/ guest detectives makes it even more cringe as they're all quite good and it makes Nikki and Jack even worse.

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